GRASSP: Mexico
Gender-responsive age-sensitive social protection in Mexico
Highlights
In December 2018, the Government of Mexico instituted policy and programmatic reforms of the country’s social protection system. The goal of these reforms was to address child poverty, disparities related to income and ethnicity, and inequalities in education and labour-market outcomes.
Integrating Gender and Child Rights into the Reforms of Key Social Protection Programmes in Mexico investigates the key elements of these reforms that impact issues of gender and child rights. The study examined the characteristics of the reforms, the factors that influenced them and the conditions that are required to ensure their sustainability.
The study concludes that addressing political, financial and institution conditions will be required to ensure the sustainability of the gender-responsive and age-sensitive social protection reforms in Mexico.
The work was part of a multi-year Gender-Responsive Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP) research programme, which was funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The project featured investigations into social protection systems in nine countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico, Tanzania, Uruguay and Viet Nam.
