Inclusive Income Protection Program

Summary

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.

Impact

Mexico City’s project has four key impacts:

1. Over 720 migrants, refugees and IDPs have improved access to city services and are in a better position to cover their basic needs.
2. The Government of Mexico City strengthens its institutional offering to migrants, refugees and IDPs.
3. Three government secretariats have new tools to work together and have institutionalized their collaboration to better support migrants, refugees and IDPs.

Mexico City project has key innovations:

• Mexico City, for the first time in its history, established a partnership between three key government secretariats—the Secretariat of Labor 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.