MIRPS Support Platform
The MIRPS Support Platform was launched in December 2019 on the occasion of the first Global Refugee Forum. It supports the efforts of the MIRPS countries in offering protection and solutions to forced displacement in Central America and Mexico, and serves as a mechanism for greater responsibility sharing, as called for in the Global Compact on Refugees. It seeks to leverage support from the broadest possible range of States, international financial institutions, the private sector, regional bodies, and other stakeholders.
Support Platform Members include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, the European Union (EU), France, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, the United States of America, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank Group, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Organization of American States (OAS) jointly form the Secretariat for the Platform.
The Support Platform Strategy
During its mandate as Chair of the MIRPS Support Platform in 2025, the Government of Colombia will prioritize the strengthening of international protection. As such, in 2025, the Platform will seek to support MIRPS countries in their efforts to ensure that refugees have efficient and equal access to comprehensive protection in their host countries. This will be achieved through collaboration to further strengthen national institutions responsible for refugee status determination processes, and through enhancing technical capacities, modernizing asylum systems including digitalization, and developing national asylum/refugee procedures, systems and practices that increase efficiency, equity and quality.
How members support the MIRPS
Provide technical support in one or more focus areas
in alignment with the MIRPS National Action Plans and the MIRPS Working Groups, supporting MIRPS States in achieving their commitments in the areas of Protection, Social Protection, Education, Health, and Jobs and Livelihoods.
Become part of the Cities of Solidarity initiative
where municipalities in Support Platform member countries and
in MIRPS countries can work together to strengthen local responses, including through safety nets for displaced people.
Identify their pledges to be made at the Global Refugee Forum
that represent concrete forms of solidarity and support in alignment with the MIRPS National Action Plans.
Map and conduct outreach with private sector actors
within their country that can be engaged in supporting the MIRPS.
Provide financial support to MIRPS countries
to cover financial gaps in the MIRPS National Action Plans.
Increase opportunities for resettlement and complementary pathways
such as education grants and private sponsorship programs for asylum-seekers and refugees from Central America and Mexico.
Help bring additional actors into the response
through the Platform to broaden the base of support.
Platform Members
