📋 Tender Overview
Mexico is the second economy and the second country in terms of population in Latin America. However, social cohesion and the fight against inequality continue to be great challenges for the country. Inequality has increased in multiple dimensions since 2018, including a decline in access to healthcare and food and an increase in informality and underemployment, along with a decline in women's participation in the labor market. As of 2005, Mexico has had a Gini coefficient of 0.5, showing that economic growth has been positive, but not inclusive.
As in many other countries, the crisis caused by COVID-19 has revealed the fragility and deficiency, not only of public services but, in general, of social protection institutions and programs. Although the Mexican Government took several measures to protect families' income and employment, the health emergency led to a consequent reduction in social levels of trust in institutions and democracy, more explicitly underscoring the need to reevaluate the relationships established between citizens and the State and, in turn, the labor market and employment policies. Although the Mexican economy is already recovering from the pandemic (OECD, 2022 [1] ), informality remains significant (the highest among OECD countries), since 55.7% of workers They continue to carry out activities under this status. It should be noted that informal employment does not affect all population groups equally: women and young people, as well as refugees, migrants, returnees and internally displaced persons tend to be more exposed.
In this context, the EU4DecentWork project arises , a 2 million euro delegated cooperation program financed by the EU through the Multiannual Indicative Program for the Americas and the Caribbean 2021-27, whose main objective is to ensure decent employment for women and men. in all its diversity, particularly for the most vulnerable and at risk people. This action aims to have a double impact: to increase the number of Mexicans affiliated with the National Social Security System and registered in the National Tax System, and to promote the National Labor Inspection System in Mexico.
Thus, the FIIAPP aims, with its involvement in the project, to improve access to social protection for workers in Mexico (focusing in particular on agricultural laborers, domestic workers, migrants, refugees and returnees, people displaced persons, workers exposed to high-risk activities and digital platform workers, while incorporating the gender perspective), support the strengthening of relevant institutions to promote labor formalization and the transition of employers and workers in the economy informal to the formal, and promote awareness of the benefits derived from the transition from the informal to the formal economy among both groups, as well as among the general public.
To this end, this project - defined and oriented based on the needs previously identified in dialogue processes between partners and be
