Mexico
Region: Latin America and The Caribbean
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Duration: October 2021 - April 2024
Budget: US$435,542
Implementing Agencies: UNFPA (lead), UNODC, UNIDO
Mexico is a country with a relatively high portion of young population. Particularly, youth-at-risk face several threats and vulnerabilities, which are interlinked as there is a broad range of economic, security and health challenges that prevent them to reach their full potential. -
Duration: January 2013 - September 2015
Budget: US$3,121,707
Implementing Agencies: IOM (lead), UNFPA, UNHCR, UNDP, UNODC
Over the past 15 years, states in the southern border of Mexico have become an important transit destination for thousands of irregular migrants. Most travel from Central America driven by persistent poverty, food insecurity, natural disasters and violence in their home countries. On their journey, these vulnerable migrants face extreme hardship and physical insecurity as they travel with limited access to basic shelter and essential social services.