Mexico

Official Name
United Mexican States
ISO2 Code
MX
ISO3 Code
MEX
Longitude
23 00 N
Latitude
102 00 W
Geolocation
POINT (-102 23)
Attended Meeting
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Increasing the micro-impact of remittances on development" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1 "Protecting the Rights of Migrants - A shared responsibility" 
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Empowering migrants and diaspora to contribute to development" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Strengthening data and research tools on migration and development" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.2. "Engaging diasporas and migrants in development policies and programs - their roles? their constraints?" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Inclusion, protection, and acceptance of migrants in society - linking human rights and migrant empowerment for development" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Reintegration and circular migration - effective for development?" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Mexico hosted the GFMD 2010 
  • Team Member in RT 1.1. "Partnerships for more regular and protected migration" 
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Joint strategies to address irregular migration" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Reducing the cost of migration and maximizing human development" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 2.2. "Migration, gender and family" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Assessing the impact of migration on the economic and social development and addressing its cause-effect relationship" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2. "Assessing the relevance and impact of climate change on migration and development" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.3. "How can RCPs and Inter-regional better include the migration and development means?" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

No Participation

Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Co-Chair in Thematic Meeting on "Cooperation Strategies among States to Address Irregular Migration: Shared Responsibility to Promote Human Development" on 4-5 October 2011 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • USD 50,000 for Organizational expenses 
RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.1. "Improving public perceptions of migrants and migration" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.3. "Protecting migrant domestic workers - enhancing their development potential" 
Attended Summit
Financial Contribution
  • Mexico offered financial contributions to the GFMD 2013-2014 Budget. 
RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.2. "Framing migration for the MDGs and the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Facilitating positive development impacts of diaspora engagement in skills transfer, investments and trade between countries of residence and origin" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2. "Mirgants' social and financial remittances (asset tranfers) and their effects on health and education" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" on 22 May 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • USD 50,000 in November 2014 for Participation of developing countries from Africa 
  • USD 50,000 in October 2015 non-earnmarked 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1. "Partnerships to promote inclusion and protect the human rights of all migrants in order to achieve the full benefits of migration" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 2.2 "Making migration worok post-2015: implementing the SDGs" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Recognizing the contributions of women migrants to economic and social development in countries of origin and destination and addressing their specific needs, particularly concerning respect for their human rights" on 8 September 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • USD 50,000 for the Participation of African countries 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Migration, diversity and harmonious societies" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Protection of migrants in all situations" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Migrants in situations of crises: conflict, climate change and natural disasters" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.2. "Principles, institutions and processes for safe, orderly and regular migration" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended the Thematic Workshop on "Migration, Connectivity and Business" on 29 March 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Peace, Stability and Growth" on 19 July 2016 in New York, United States.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1. "Tools and safeguards for policy coherence - finding the right policy mix to balance different interests and objectives" 
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "From Global Agenda to Implementation - National Action Plans for migration-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Moving beyond emergencies - Creating development solutions to the mutual benefit of host and origin communities and displaced persons" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Raising the Global Talent Pool - Harnessing the Potential of the Private Sector for Global Skills Partnerships" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.2. "Strengthening cooperation - Enabling civil society contributions in migrant integration" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

USD 100,000 (non-earmarked)

RT Participation

Roundtable Co-Chair in RT 3.2 "Beyond Remittances: leveraging the development impact and promoting the transnational engagement of diaspora and migrants"

Government Team Member in Rt 2.2 "Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development" and RT 3.1 "Aligning governance with contemporary drivers of migration"

Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
Participated in the Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Development: a roadmap to achieving the SDGs" and "Labour Migration and Skills"

Programa de InmersiÛn Cultural y Voluntariado ("Cultural Immersion and Volunteering Programme")

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The programme aims to provide a cultural immersion experience in Mexico that allows young Mexicans to strengthen their ties with the country and foster cultural ties, as well as to facilitate a volunteer work opportunity in support of the communities with emphasis on the regions of origin of Mexican migrants.

Programa ìRemesa Paisanoî

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

This project arises from the collaboration between FINABIEN and IME with the company Broxel and its purpose is to enable Mexican migrants in the United States to send remittances to Mexico more easily, more securely, with a lower commission and in a matter of seconds with the use of a mobile application that allows them to have two accounts and two cards, one in dollars and the other in pesos.

Concurso de Literatura para di·spora mexicana ("Mexican Diaspora Literature Competition")

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Institute of Mexicans Abroad (IME), in alliance with the Embassy of Mexico in Germany and the Germany and Bavaria Chapter of the Global MX Network, call for migrant writers of Mexican origin to participate in the 2nd Literature Contest for the Mexican Diaspora 2023 with the theme "Mexican Traditions". It aims at promoting literary creation by involving the Mexican community abroad, using social networks, emails and digital materials

ìSemana de EducaciÛn Financiera Integral para Mexicanos en el Exterior (SEFIME)î (Week of Financial Inclusion of Mexicans Abroad)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

SEFIME is a government initiative that seeks to bring financial programs and services to the Mexican diaspora through the Mexican Consular Network in the USA, Canada, Latin America and Europe.
SEFIME offers workshops, training, talks, counseling, among others, on topics related to financial education and inclusion aimed at the Mexican community living abroad, in order to strengthen the tools they have related to the planning and management of their resources.

ìPrograma Consular de Emprendimiento para Mexicanas en el Exterior (PCEME)î (Consular Entrepreneurship Programme for Mexican Women Abroad (PCEME))

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

As part of the initiatives promoted by the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME) in the area of economic development and entrepreneurship, the Consular Entrepreneurship Program for Mexican Women Abroad (PCEME) has been promoted in collaboration with the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix and the Thunderbird School of Business at the University of Arizona, which aims to train and provide tools to women entrepreneurs to create and strengthen a business abroad.

Alternative to Detention Pilot Program for unaccompanied migrant and asylum seeker children in Mexico

Submitted by Ms. Anqi ZHANG on

This project built on the progress to date in developing and implementing a framework and shifting perspective on alternatives to immigration detention (ATD) in Mexico, with the specific aim of fostering sustainability and empowering local stakeholders towards building preventative and community-based ATD models for the longer term through collaborative initiatives.

Inclusive Income Protection Program

Submitted by Ms. Anqi ZHANG on

This action was submitted through the GFMD Mayors Mechanism Call to Local Action for Migrants and Refugees.
Mexico City is a recipient of the Global Cities Fund, the Mayors Migration Council’s response to the unmet needs of cities as they support migrants, refugees, and internally displaced people.

3x1 Remittance Programme

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

The Program 3x1 (“Programa 3x1 para migrantes”) supports Mexicans living abroad to develop social infrastructure and productive projects in their hometown communities, with the participation of the federal, state and local government. The Program 3x1 for migrants is the federal government's answer for supporting migrant desire of improving their hometowns through the development of community social and productive projects. Adding the participation of the state and local government and hometown associations.

Ambulante Film Festival

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

Ambulante Film Festival uses documentary film as a tool for social and cultural change. Ambulante brings documentary films and training programs to places where they are rarely available in order to foster a cultural exchange, encourage a participative, informed and critical attitude in audiences, and open new channels of expression in Mexico and abroad. For the past 15 years they have been producing and showcasing stories about migrants, their families and communities.

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