Mexico
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- No
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- No
- A draft strategy already exists
- No
- Other (please specify)
- Yes
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- No
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Ministry of Labour and Social SecurityYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Between 2019 and 2024, the Youth Building the Future Programme (Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro) has benefited 2,973,461 young people. This flagship initiative of the Mexican Government’s social welfare strategy targets youth aged 18 to 29 who are not currently studying or employed, with the goal of facilitating their integration into the workforce through on-the-job training. To achieve this, the programme partners with registered Job Centres across the country to offer practical training opportunities. Beneficiaries receive a monthly stipend equivalent to one minimum wage, along with health insurance through the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), for a period of up to twelve months. This comprehensive support aims to empower young people with skills, experience, and protection as they transition into productive employment.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
The Youth Building the Future Programme establishes the following goals: 1. To integrate young people into on-the-job training activities and thus equip them with the tools for a better life. 2. To give young people the opportunity to access university studies. 3. To steer young people away from unemployment and the path of anti-social behaviour. 4. Accelerate the preparation of a pool of young people for productive activities, in anticipation of further economic growth in the near future. 5. Include the private sector in socially responsible activities for the productive development of young people.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
As part of the Youth Building the Future programme, incorporate young people aged 18 to 29 into productive activities through training provided by Job Centres, with a target of reaching 500,000 youth by 2025.Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- No
- Enterprise Development
- No
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- No
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Informed
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Consulted
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Informed
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Informed
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Informed
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Informed
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Consulted
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Fully involved
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Informed
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Informed
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- No
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- No
- Informed
- Yes
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
2025 The business sector is an essential agent in the development of the Youth Building the Future Programme, as its Job Centres offer training spaces for young people. In addition, close relations are maintained with international organisations such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in order to promote the strengthening of the Programme. _________________ 2024: The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and the Undersecretariat for Employment and Labour Productivity, through the Unit of the Youth Building the Future Programme, have entered into various agreements with the Business Sector to promote in a coordinated manner the linking of young apprentices with economic units willing and able to provide them with job training. --------------------- 2023: The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, through the Unit of the Youth Building the Future Programme, has entered into various agreements with the Business Sector to promote in a coordinated manner the linking of young apprentices with economic units willing and able to provide them with on-the-job training. _________________ 2022 survey: The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, through the Unit of the Youth Building the Future Programme, has entered into various agreements with the Business Sector to promote in a coordinated manner the participation of young apprentices in work centres, which allows them to increase their employability in order to facilitate their insertion into employment or productive activity. _________________________________________________________________________________ 2020 survey: A constant dialogue has been maintained with the Business Coordinating Council, a national organisation that works to actively participate in the whole process of implementing the Programme in order to guide the Programme's action strategies, to incorporate its experience in training young people, and its proposals and initiatives are permanently taken into account.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- No
- Rural workers
- No
- Other (please specify)
- Yes
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
The PJCF receives technical assistance from the ILO for the implementation of two studies aimed at improving the programme's monitoring and evaluation tools, as well as systematising similar Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP) initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean.