REFRAME will contribute to taking forward the ILO’s Fair Recruitment Initiative, which was launched in 2014 and is a global multi-stakeholder’s Fair Recruitment Initiative to prevent human trafficking and forced labour; protect the rights of workers, including migrant workers, from abusive and fraudulent recruitment and placement processes; and to reduce the cost of labour migration and enhance development outcomes for migrant workers and their families, as well as for countries of origin and destination.

In Mexico, the project aims to prevent and reduce abusive and fraudulent recruitment practices at the Mexico-Guatemala border. The 2018-2019 work plan includes activities with different actors at a national and municipal level, and focus mainly on the bordering state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. However, the project has also partners in other regions of the country that have experienced a change in their migration dynamics and are seeing an increase in the participation of migrant workers in the urban economy. Some of these states are Jalisco, in the Pacific, Coahuila in the Gulf of Mexico, and Baja California in the northern border. 

Activities are focused on strengthening existing policies and institutional frameworks, including strengthening the role of the public employment service; ensuring availability and accessibility of complains and grievance mechanisms; supporting transparency of enforcement institutions and procedures; promoting industry led FR processes/initiatives by labour recruiters and employers and; supporting services provision to migrant workers on fair recruitment