Tonatiuh Magos

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Tonatiuh Magos is a Resource Mobilisation and Advocacy Specialist in Latin America that has led organisation’s engagement with governments, United Nations agencies and private sector.  

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Current Work

Tonatiuh represents the Centre in Guadalajara, as part of the Generation 2026 project, working alongside other senior project leads in the USA and Canada. As the Senior Project Lead, Guadalajara, he provides the coordination of and reporting on Guadalajara specific activities identified for the project, provides critical specialist support to the Guadalajara Host City Committee and acts as a conduit/liaison to the Centre. 

Previous Experience

Tonatiuh has participated in the development of policy process on children's rights protection, such as the implementation process of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Global Alliance to End Violence against Children or the General Law on the Rights of Children and Adolescents In Mexico.

He has lectured conferences for national, local governments, NGOs and universities on eradicating all forms of violence against children. He is a member of several Humanitarian Research Groups, representing Central America and Mexico at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Helsinki, the National Institute of Public Health, and Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Tonatiuh is an advisor of the Social Council at the Inter-American Development Bank, the System for The Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents (SIPINNA) in Jalisco and the Board of the National Observatory for Recruitment of Children and Adolescents.

Tonatiuh holds a bachelor’s degree in Physical Anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History and diplomas on Advocacy for Early Childhood at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and on Senior Management for Civil Society Organizations at United States Agency for International Development (USAID).