SDG 1 – No poverty

• Target 1.3 – Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable.
  • Indicator 1.3.1 – Proportion of population covered by social protection floors/systems, by sex, distinguishing children, unemployed persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, newborns, work-injury victims and the poor and the vulnerable

• Target 1.4 – By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
  • Indicator 1.4.1 – Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services
  • Indicator 1.4.2 – Proportion of total adult population with secure tenure rights to land, (a) with legally recognized documentation, and (b) who perceive their rights to land as secure, by sex and by type of tenure

SDG 2 – Zero hunger

• Target 2.1 – By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
  • Indicator 2.1.1 – Prevalence of undernourishment
  • Indicator 2.1.2 – Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)

• Target 2.2 – By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
  • Indicator 2.2.1 – Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age
  • Indicator 2.2.2 – Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)
  • Indicator 2.2.3 – Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage)

• Target 2.3 – By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
  • Indicator 2.3.1 – Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size
  • Indicator 2.3.2 – Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status

• Target 2.4 – By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
  • Indicator 2.4.1 – Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture

SDG 5 – Gender equality

• Target 5.a – Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
  • Indicator 5.a.1 – (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
  • Indicator 5.a.2 – Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control

• Target 5.4 – Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
  • Indicator 5.4.1 – Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location

The program Youth Building the Future (Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro, in Spanish) is a program that operates in the 32 states of the Mexican Republic since 2019, whose objective is for young people between 18 and 29 years of age who are not studying or working, to be able to receive job training in a Work Center of their choice for up to 12 months, receiving monthly financial support of $7,572 and health insurance through the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).

The program has focused its efforts to reach 2,471 of the country’s total municipalities (2,477), with emphasis on marginalized municipalities or those with the highest levels of poverty, supported within the framework of the National Public Security Strategy, seeking to counteract the main causes of the rise in crime in areas of high violence and marginalization, 59.4% of the total number of young people served belonging to these sectors.

The Program provides job training opportunities to young people for 12 months, and during this training period they receive the following support:

1. Training: continuous process of teaching-learning, transmission of knowledge and development of skills and/or competencies, which is carried out with the participation and accompaniment of a Tutor, directly in a Work Center and/or in its Branches, and which is oriented to allow them to acquire or reinforce their experience.
2. Economic support: direct monthly economic scholarship of 7,572 pesos (2024).
3. Medical Insurance through the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS): under the budget authorized for the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, with coverage for benefits in kind provided by the insurance for illness and maternity, and occupational hazards to beneficiaries of the Program.

• Consider poverty dynamics (mobility in and out of poverty) in its rules;
• Provide transfer values sufficient to raise the majority of beneficiary families to levels above the poverty line;
• Adequate funding and incentives for the local administration responsible for collecting the information that feeds the single registry;
• Regularly train all program staff, particularly at the local level.

Integrated programmes for gender equality and empowerment; Unemployment benefits; Unconditional cash transfer; Training (vocational, life skills, cash for training, entrepreneurship); Subsidized/tailored access to social insurance (monotax, reduced contribution level)

• International Youth Foundation Mexico
• Global Youth Community UNESCO

The “Youth Building the Future Program” is a federal program of the Government of Mexico with multi-sector participation and presence in 99.8% of the country’s municipalities (2,471 of the 2,477 municipalities), in which it involves the cooperation of the private, public and social sectors, in order to register work centers for the training and education of young people.

• Since the beginning of the operation of the program in January 2019, and until June 30 2024, 2 million 973 thousand 449 young people were benefited.
• More than 568 thousand work centers have at least one beneficiary.
• By June 2024, more than 573,762 work centers have trained beneficiaries, of which 561,599 are from the private sector; 7,435 from the public sector; and 4,728 from the social sector.
• With regard to the promotion of the Yaqui People’s Justice Plan, the program carried out territorial strategies to promote the participation of the young inhabitants of this territory. The result is the historic incorporation of 655 people since the beginning of operations of the program in this community.
• Similarly, it should be noted that 1,727,251 of the total number of people in the program have been women (58.1%), a group that has historically faced labor exclusion and income discrimination, which has closed gaps to bring them closer to real equality of opportunities and full exercise of their rights, which are overcome with the program.

• In only 5 years, the amount of the program’s social investment exceeded 14 times the amount estimated in 36 years for youth employment in Mexico. This represents a historic investment in the program of 128,816 million 520,141.33 mexican pesos in the payment of economic support and health insurance to the program’s beneficiaries.

Plataforma Digital – Most of the operational processes are duly supported by the Digital Platform, a computer system that facilitates the comprehensive management of information and actions of said processes.

https://jovenesconstruyendoelfuturo.stps.gob.mx/