On September 24 and 25, the strategic planning workshop entitled “Mexico, a pioneer country of Alliance 8.7: accelerating the commitment to eradicate child labor, human trafficking and forced labor.” This event was organized by the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) in coordination with the Secretariat of the Government of Mexico (SEGOB) .It had the collaboration of the ILO, in its role as Technical Secretariat of Alliance 8.7 and of the Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean free from child labor .

The workshop brought together more than 100 representatives from the government, employers 'and workers' organizations, civil society and the UN System. It was chaired by Luisa María Alcalde Luján, Secretary of Labor and Social Security; Enrique Minor Campa, General Director of Public Policies of the Executive Secretariat of the National System for the Protection of Girls, Boys and Adolescents (SIPINNA); Christopher Gascón, Head of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM); and Gerardina González Marroquín, Director of the Office of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for Mexico and Cuba.

During two days of work, the participants addressed the reality of child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, in four areas considered priorities to accelerate the achievement of target 8.7: i) generation of information, ii) migration; iii) supply chains; and iv) prevention, protection, reporting and prosecution strategies. For this, discussion tables were formed made up of representatives of different sectors that managed, on the one hand, to carry out a comprehensive analysis on the strategies, mechanisms and progress of the government and, on the other hand, to generate a mapping of proposals that will help comply with the goal 8.7. 

Within this framework, through social dialogue and contributions from each entity involved, actions were identified to strengthen the articulation of national efforts and accelerate the achievement of goal 8.7. As a result of the workshop, consensus was obtained on a roadmap whose follow-up will be coordinated by the STPS.

Among the agreements is, for example, making comparable measurements on child labor with the use of the Child Labor Risk Identification Model applied in Mexico , as well as promoting the ratification of the Protocol 2014 relative to ILO Convention 29 on labor forced.

As witnesses to these agreements, Alejandro Encinas Nájera, Head of the Labor Policy and Institutional Relations Unit of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security; Elía Sosa Nishizaki, Deputy Director General for Specialized Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Relations; Ricardo Bucio Mújica, Executive Secretary of the System for the Protection of Children and Adolescents (SIPINNA) of the Ministry of the Interior; and Andrea Lara Guevara, Technical Coordinator of the 2030 Agenda of the Office of the President.

In this way, the Government of Mexico reaffirms its solid commitment to leave no one behind and accelerate efforts to contribute to the achievement of target 8.7 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.