In Mexico, hundreds of thousands of people have been internally displaced due to conflict, violence in multiple and intersecting forms, disasters caused by environmental hazards, large infrastructure projects, and human rights violations, among many other diverse and multi-factor drivers. This project aims to contribute to the Government of Mexico’s capacity at the federal, state and local levels to implement coordinated protection responses to internal displacement. To achieve the project objective, under Outcome 1, IOM will make evidence-based recommendations available through local and national studies informed by consultations with affected communities, for the operationalization of a local IDP protection route that is gender-sensitive (Output 1.1); federal and state authorities will have access to a knowledge management tool (report) with observations of the public consultation and Open Parliament process (Output 1.2); and a comparative case study between two states on inter-institutional state-level coordination mechanisms to provide protection to IDPs will be available in order to identify best practices for replication at the federal level (Output 1.3).