More than a million people from Central America and Mexico are displaced within their countries or have been forced to flee across borders due to violence, persecution, extortion, natural disasters, the climate emergency and socioeconomic inequality. 

Considering this, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panama adopted the San Pedro Sula Declaration in 2017, and agreed to work together on the implementation of the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework (MIRPS). In 2019, El Salvador joined this initiative. 

The MIRPS is a concrete application of the Global Compact on Refugees, which fosters regional cooperation between countries of origin, transit and destination for greater shared responsibility for prevention, protection and durable solutions for displaced people. 

The MIRPS States have National Action Plans and a regional Action Plan to carry out their actions within this framework that focus on 4 major objectives: 

• reception and admission,
• immediate needs,
• host countries and communities, and
• durable solutions 

In 2017, during the San Pedro Sula Regional Conference that created the MIRPS, the MIRPS Member States invited the General Secretariat of the OAS and UNHCR to follow up on the progress made at the national and regional level in the implementation of the MIRPS. The States agreed on a governance system through a rotating Pro Tempore Presidency and a monitoring mechanism compiled in an annual report that accounts for the efforts, progress, challenges and priorities achieved at the national and regional level, including the support of other countries. and strategic partners. This report is presented during the Meeting that the MIRPS States hold annually. 

In December 2019, during the First World Refugee Conference, the MIRPS Support Platform was established as a mechanism to support the distribution of responsibilities regarding forced displacement in Central America and Mexico. The MIRPS Support Platform is made up of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, the European Union (EU), France, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, the United States, 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). 

UNHCR and the Department of Social Inclusion (DIS) of the OAS co-lead the Technical Secretariat of the MIRPS and its Support Platform.