The project was confirmed just on International Care Day; The Government’s objective is to consolidate a national care system that allows women to acquire greater autonomy to exercise their rights.
Mexico City, October 29 (However).- The President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced this Wednesday that in 2026 the Government will build 200 Early Childhood Education and Care Centers (CECI) of a goal of one thousand units projected for the 2030 with the intention of consolidating a National Care System; Therefore, it already has 150 validated land plots.
“For some time now the approach to greater autonomy for women is that the State assume part of the care, for example, the so-called daycare centers at the time allowed many women to be able to go out to work—my children were in daycare centers in the Mexican Social Security Institute—, or spaces where women can collectively leave their children in a place and be able to study or work. So, as far as possible, we are expanding the care or the Care System to be able to allow women to have greater economic autonomy, always if they so wish,” she stated at a press conference.
Sheinbaum Pardo He highlighted that it has been women who have historically supported the care of the family and the upbringing of children; For this reason, the Government will make available the State’s capabilities to get involved in this task so that women have greater economic autonomy.
What is care and why do we talk about it?
They are the daily activities that people carry out (paid or unpaid) to guarantee the life and well-being of people throughout their lives, of families, communities and society as a whole.… pic.twitter.com/7pPNu0z7QN
— Citlalli Hernández Mora (@CitlaHM) October 29, 2025
The Mexican president was accompanied this morning by the general director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS)Zoé Robledo Aburto, who said that by “2030 the objective is to build one thousand CECI in 507 municipalities to create half a million spaces for girls and boys between 43 days and three years of age.”
Robledo Aburto explained that the CECIs will be located near work centers, as well as the Economic Development Poles for Well-being (PODECOBI) and the housing developments of the Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers (Infonavit).
The person in charge of the IMSS pointed out that of the CECI that began construction this year in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, the one located in Paraje Oriente has a progress of 66.5 percent; that of Gladiolas, 41.1 percent; in Sendero de San Isidro, 46 percent; in Free Municipality, 8.4 percent; and in Urbivilla el Cedro, 5.6 percent. Additionally, in December, work begins on the first CECI in the field, in San Quintín, Baja California.
For her part, the Secretary of Women, Citlalli Hernández Mora, recalled that “the creation of a National and Progressive Care System is commitment number 55 of the Second Floor of the Fourth Transformation, therefore, to settle the historical debt that has affected the development, well-being and economic autonomy of women, Transversal Annex 31 proposes a budget of 466 thousand 675 million pesos, which would be equivalent to 3.97 percent percent of the 2026 Federation Expenditure Budget Project”.
As part of this exhibition, the head of the Women’s Secretariat, presented with María del Rocío García Pérez, in charge of the National System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family (DIF), the digital platform of the Care Information System (SIDECU). The microsite cuidados.mujeres.gob.mx It was developed in coordination with the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency (ATDT), according to the officials.
Finally, the head of the National DIF System highlighted that this digital tool will make it possible to map, make visible and organize the offer of care services that already exist in the country so that citizens can consult the nearest public care centers through a georeferenced system. To date, 118,618 care centers operated by 17 federal institutions have been identified.
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