MIEUX+ in Latin America and Caribbean

MIEUX+ has been actively engaged in the region since 2009, with project themes centering around international protection and asylum, protecting vulnerable populations, and investigating environmental migration.

> See our interactive map for projects in Latin America and the Caribbean

• In the South American Gran Chaco, MIEUX+ collaborated with a diverse network of partners from local and national authorities, academia, and civil society organisations, to analyse human mobility and draft policy recommendations related to environmental migration, with a focus on indigenous communities.
  
  
• MIEUX+ is drafted recommendations on mainstreaming the interculturality in the Strategic Plan of the Migration Management Policy in partnership with Medellin's Mayor Office, for the Colombia II Action. 
  
  
• As part of the Action Costa Rica IV, MIEUX+ is working alongside the Directorate General of Migration and Immigration to craft a protocol for aiding and safeguarding migrants in mixed migratory flows during emergencies or crisis situations.
  
  
• Finally, MIEUX+ cooperated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to create a course centered on EU migration policy and asylum, in the context of the El Salvador II Action. 
  
• As part of the Brazil III Action, MIEUX+ provided support to the Federal Public Defender's office in enhancing their expertise in interviewing techniques for unaccompanied migrant children.
  
  
• In the framework of the Action Costa Rica V, MIEUX+ renewed its collaboration with the Directorate General of Migration and Immigration to assist in developing the National Integration Plan for the years 2023-2027.
  
  
• MIEUX+ partnered with the National School for Migration of the Dominican Republic to enhance their public officials' understanding of migration and its intersection with mental health.
  
  
• In the framework of the Mexico IV Action, MIEUX+ extended its efforts in implementing the Protocol of Attention to Migrants in Large Flows, building on a previous project with their National Institute for Migration.
  
  
• With the MIRPS Action, MIEUX+ strenghtened national asylum systems of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panama through dialogue and peer-to-peer capacity development, as well as opening the space for dialogue between EU and local and regional actors.
  
  
• With the objective to strengthen inter-institutional and cross-border coordination, MIEUX supported the development of inter-sectoral guidelines and a targeted training manual to counter migrant smuggling through the Peru III Action.