Mexico City’s Inclusive Income Protection Program
Mexico City
Mayor
Clara Brugada Molina
Start of Project
02/01/2021
End of Project
to be confirmed
© Mexico City Government
Overview
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.
Mexico City’s project builds on the newly established Municipal Income Protection Program to provide cash assistance to internally displaced persons while connecting them to national and local social services. The city’s project reaches more than 450 people in need of social assistance while connecting their families to support services related to employability, obtaining personal identification, public health services, and referrals to Mexico City’s robust governmental, civil society, and nonprofit social services network. The project represents the city government’s first tri-secretariat collaboration and paves the way for a stronger coordination of social services to all residents of Mexico City.
Mexico City plans to sustain and institutionalize this program to support the integration of migrants, refugees, and IDPs. The city government will strengthen and expand the institutional cooperation initiated among the three secretariats to include other public and private entities; deliver training to city government personnel on human mobility, migrants’ rights, and legal frameworks; and support the development of a digital client database for government institutions to provide effective support and follow-up while ensuring privacy and data protection.
Realised Impact (As of March 2023)
Mexico City’s project has four key impacts:
Over 720 migrants, refugees, and IDPs have improved access to city services and are in a better position to cover their basic needs.
The Government of Mexico City strengthens its institutional offering to migrants, refugees, and IDPs.
Three government secretariats have new tools to work together and have institutionalized their collaboration to better support migrants, refugees, and IDPs.
Mexico City’s project has two key innovations:
Mexico City, for the first time in its history, established a partnership between three key government secretariats—the Secretariat of Labour and Employment Promotion (STyFE), the Secretariat of Social Inclusion and Welfare (SIBISO), and the Secretariat of Health (SEDESA)—to deploy a coordinated response to the overlapping needs of migrants, refugees, and IDPs.
Mexico City plans to sustain and institutionalize this program to support the integration of migrants, refugees, and IDPs. The city government will strengthen and expand the institutional cooperation initiated among the three secretariats to include other public and private entities; deliver training to city government personnel on human mobility, migrants’ rights, and legal frameworks; and support the development of a digital client database for government institutions to provide effective support and follow-up while ensuring privacy and data protection.
Priority Objectives
Improving migration governance and forced displacement protection
Protecting those most vulnerable
Providing access to urban infrastructure, social services, and education,
regardless of status
“With support from the Mayors Migration Council, Mexico City is expanding financial assistance to those who have lost their income due to the impact of COVID-19 in the informal economy, the lifeblood of our city. We are grateful to the Global Cities Fund, an innovative funding instrument that arrives at a critical time of need as we stand up and honor the city’s history of pacifism, solidarity, hospitality, and asylum.”