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Inter-American Cooperation Network for

Social Protection

Transfer of Chile’s Puente Program to the Caribbean

Francisco Pilotti, DirectorDepartamento de Desarrollo Social y Empleo

November 12-20, 2007Santiago de Chile

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Mandates

• Millennium Development Goal No. 1:– Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

• IV Summit of the Americas:– Identify and exchange, within the framework of

the OAS, practices in the region regarding policies and programs to confront poverty.

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Selection Criteria

• Effective reduction of extreme poverty• Effective reduction of inequity• Democratic Governance: Good beneficiary

evaluation• Effective targeting aimed at the poorest• Family as intervention unit: delivery of

integrated services• Focus on citizens’ rights

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Effective Programs of Inequality Reduction: The Brazil Case

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Bolsa Familia: 21%

BPC: 7%

Source: IPEA

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Positive Institutional Evaluation

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Chile’s Puente Program Achievements

• Five years of implementation

• Coverage:270,000 families

• High impact on poverty reduction during 2003-2006

• Positive evaluations by ECLAC and World Bank

• International interest

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Favorable Review of Puente in Inter – American Forums

• Workshop in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 2003• Workshop in Reñaca, Chile, 2005• XIII Annual Conference of the Social Network,

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 2006 • XIV Annual Conference of the Social Network,

Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2007• Interamerican Commission on Social

Development, CIDES, Washington DC, October 2007

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The Puente Program

• Established in 2002, the Program focuses on the family as the unit of intervention. During 24 months, Puente seeks to empower the family in order to improve its quality of life in seven dimensions:– Health– Education – Civil Registry (Identification)– Housing– Employment– Family Dynamics– Income Generation

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The Puente Methodology

Psychosocial Support and Subsidies

Families in extremepoverty

Autonomous families with access to protection networks

Follow-Up

24 months

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DSDE’s Institutional Capacity Building

Strategy• Main Components of Horizontal Cooperation

– Critical transfer of knowledge, skills and lessons learned

• There is no simple replication of a model• Facilitate a comparative approach• Ensure mutual learning

– Mixture of educational approaches, traditional and virtual

– Permanent connectivity– Network management

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Building a Bridge for the Puente

• Critical Transfer must take into account differences such as:– Legal– Administrative– Cultural/Linguistic– Family Dynamics– Service Delivery– Other Variables

• Migration• HIV/AIDS

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Transfer of the Chile Puente to the Caribbean:

Partners

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Critical Transfer

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Planning Meeting, OAS. FOSIS

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Follow up in Trinidad & Tobago:

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Follow up in St. Lucia: site visitors and tutors from Chile

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Closure of the first stage of the program

Planning Meeting, OAS, FOSIS, UWI

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JuneJune Chile Puente in the Caribbean Workshop, Jamaica

OctoberOctober XIV Annual Meeting of the Social Network, (Brazil)

NovemberNovember Evaluation workshop and Planning for future activities workshop

Follow up in Jamaica: site visits by tutors from Chile

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NovemberNovember Internships, Chile

Timeline

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THANK YOU!