The recent reform of the National Planning Law in Mexico of March 2018 has included the intercultural perspective as a baseline for all policies and national programmes; this means that interculturality should be from now on a transversal national goal in the National Development Plan.

Nevertheless, even if this was an enormous step towards consolidating interculturality in the national legal framework, more work needs to be done. That is the reason why Ms Aleida Alavez, MP, recently proposed a reform of the National Public Administration Law in order to give mandate to the Ministry of Interior to develop and implement both the public policy on interculturality and the one on human mobility.

This is a major advancement concerning planning policies since it appoints a government office as the body in charge to work on these policies’ implementation.

Human mobility is a concept that refers not only to migratory movements, but also to the situation of refugees, asylum seekers, people in need of international protection and internally displaced people whose human rights shall be protected And this reform comes in a very special moment when the world is about to approve the Global Compact on Migration next December in Marrakech.

In the months to come Mexican parliamentarians Ms Lorenia Valles, deputy from a northern border State, and Ms Aleida Alavez from Mexico City will promote reforms to the Laws on Population and Migration to legally address the way in which the Ministry of Interior should proceed to implement these policies.

The Council of Europe, through the Intercultural Cities Programme, has been the main source of inspiration for transferring experience from cities to the national level, and will be asked for advice for the further reforms of the national Mexican laws.