Our Expertise
UNESCO Mexico strengthens the initiatives and capacities of authorities, institutions, civil organizations and companies to improve responses to global challenges and to the most pressing challenges of the country and its locality, providing interdisciplinary and comprehensive technical assistance through its sectors of Communication and Information, Social and Human Sciences, Education and Culture, based on the knowledge, methods, tools and experiences built in more than 50 years of direct work in multiple contexts and places of the national territory and with specialists from all over the world, based on the international instruments and conventions ratified by the Mexican State, tools and experiences built in more than 50 years of direct work in multiple contexts and places in the national territory and with specialists from around the world, based on international instruments and conventions ratified by the Mexican State and promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda to transform the conditions for all people to live with dignity, to leave no one behind.
In addition, it addresses gender equality with a diverse perspective, interculturality as a strategic component and has been characterized by addressing issues related to the city and work from the municipal level. It also prioritizes environments facing acute processes of economic, industrial, tourism and social transformation, as well as emergencies to strengthen collective resilience.
Public Policy
Our team has extensive experience to strengthen, systematize and co-design public policies, projects and innovative strategies to improve the conditions of educational, scientific, cultural, communicational and informational life in Mexico, with the orientation of the SDGs, as well as to strengthen capacities to implement processes of implementation and continuous evaluation. We are distinguished by our ability to serve as a specialized liaison between different authorities, organizations and actors.
Dialogue and cooperation for knowledge societies with diversity and dignity
We act for the right of access to information, especially information that can make a difference in life; the enjoyment of dignified informative, communicational and creative spaces and content; the independence, diversity and pluralism of the media; freedom of expression and of the press, while counteracting hate and discriminatory speech; as well as the use of information and communication technologies for the common good and the reduction of inequalities, in line with international standards and national and local development plans.
Culture, a mainstreaming element in sustainable development
The facilitating role of culture at the heart of any policy creates inclusive and resilient societies. UNESCO is convinced that no development can be sustainable without a strong cultural component.
Promoting the right to quality education, with inclusion and equity throughout life
UNESCO is the only United Nations agency acting for education and lifelong learning. The Education Sector of UNESCO in Mexico monitors the progress and challenges that the Mexican educational system has to guarantee it. Likewise, it provides technical assistance to academic bodies, government and civil society to implement initiatives to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda. In accordance with its mission, it leads the dialogue on the transformation that education requires to build fairer, more inclusive futures, peaceful and sustainable.
Science for fairer and more inclusive Mexican societies
We promote the formulation and implementation of inclusion policies at the national and local level through intercultural dialogue and based on inclusive scientific evidence through the social and human sciences to transform the conditions of the most vulnerable groups and communities. We also strengthen the capacities to generate, manage and apply knowledge for sustainable development, with an approach based on human rights, gender equality and the 2030 Agenda.
Southeast Mexico Alliances
UNESCO Mexico continues to strengthen and safeguard cultural and natural heritage in the Mexican Southeast, the region of Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Yucatan. Through multiple projects, it provides technical guidance to governments, institutions, private initiative and civil society organizations, working directly with groups to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, in the face of critical tourism, technological, urban and intercultural processes that require collective actions to strengthen governance and management centered on people, based on the recognition and appreciation of cultural diversity, that promotes community-centered investments that take advantage of and protect the region's cultural assets through the conservation of cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) and the sustainable management of biodiversity, based on scientific knowledge for decision-making and valuing and integrating local and traditional knowledge, free access to information and communication for sustainable development.
Multicultural Mexico with its indigenous languages
Mexico has a great social, cultural and linguistic diversity with multiple opportunities, but also challenges that must be addressed through interculturalism and multilingualism. The Social and Human Sciences, Communication and Information, Culture and Education sectors work together to promote and revitalize indigenous languages and have redoubled their efforts in view of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032, led by UNESCO, in whose construction Mexico played a key role, for example, by hosting the 2020 High Level Event towards the Global Plan of Action of the Decade that guided the formation of the Declaración de los Pinos (Chapoltepek). We have collaborated in the exchange of indigenous knowledge, the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and the promotion of indigenous languages through digital platforms and services.
