The Howard G. Buffett Foundation has been supporting Catholic Relief Services in Mexico since 2011. It is CRS Mexico's largest agricultural donor in the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, as well as a strong supporter of agricultural guest-worker programs in the northern states.

Comisión Episcopal de Pastoral Social (CEPS-Cáritas Mexicana) integrates all the social initiatives supported by the National Conference of Bishops in Mexico. Catholic Relief Services supports two of their initiatives: The Mexico Peace program and strengthening the coordination team of the Human Mobility Pastorate project.

The Global Workers Justice Alliance was founded to address the abuse of migrant workers being shut out of the justice system. It started from a small New York City apartment and has grown into a thriving organization making an impact on thousands of migrant workers.

Agriculture for basic Needs-Mexico: A4N Oaxaca México

This project addresses hunger, low incomes and social exclusion in vulnerable communities in Oaxaca, Mexico. The goal of A4N-Mexico is to help poor, rural Mexican families improve production, income and capacity to lead their own development. A4N-Mexico seeks to influence local and regional development planning, policy development and the investment of public resources in rural Oaxaca engaging municipal and state governments, equipping farming leaders to be part of regional development planning councils and developing proposals to leverage public funds.

Seeking Enforcement of Article 28 of Mexican Labor Law to Reduce Recruitment Fraud and Labor Abuses of Migrants

The goal of the project is to reduce recruitment fraud and other abuses related to U.S.-based employment of Mexican migrant workers by seeking the enforcement of the existing provisions under Article 28 of Mexican Labor Law in Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Tabasco, Tlaxcala, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Michoacán and León. Major activities implemented in coordination with the Global Workers Justice Alliance include promoting workers' rights and encouraging migrants and their families to document and challenge labor violations, identifying test cases that seek enforcement of the law and educating policymakers and members of civil society about the urgency, importance and benefits of enforcing the law.

Strengthening the Coordination Team of the Human Mobility Pastorate

This project aims to strengthen the recently assigned Human Mobility Pastorate coordination team, providing resources to allow them to visit the 12 most active dioceses that have been addressing different migration issues during the last decade. This new team will train pastoral agents working directly with migrant centers in order to support the already existing national network. The pastorate seeks to raise bishops' awareness to promote the support for the various initiatives carried out by pastoral agents to care for migrants and their families at the national level.

Mexico Peace Program Phase II

The project responds to increasing levels of violence and the Mexican Catholic Church's efforts to enable citizens to confront the violence through generating a new culture of participation and peace. The phase II of this project will strengthen the civil society platform for advocacy around peace issues and strengthen the operating, fundraising and strategic program management capacity of CEPs. It is being implemented in Acapulco, Guerrero, as a pilot model to be replicated in other Mexican dioceses. It will benefit more than 2,000 direct participants.