Inter-Government
INTERNATIONAL FOCUS
UNDP Poverty Reduction Programme
Part of the Millennium Development Goals. This program advocates for nationally-owned solutions to reduce poverty and promote human development. They sponsor innovative pilot projects; connect countries to global good practices and resources; promote the role of women in development; and bring governments, civil society and outside funders together to coordinate their efforts.
UNDP Millennium Development Goals Homepage
The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s. Responding to the world's main development challenges and to the calls of civil society, the MDGs promote poverty reduction, education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality, AIDS and other diseases. Set for the year 2015, the MDGs are an agreed set of goals that can be achieved if all actors work together and do their part. Poor countries have pledged to govern better, and invest in their people through health care and education. Rich countries have pledged to support them, through aid, debt relief, and fairer trade.
UNDP International Poverty Centre
The International Poverty Centre (IPC) is a joint project between the United Nations Development Programme and the Brazilian Government to promote South-South Cooperation on applied poverty research. It specializes in analyzing poverty and inequality and offering research-based policy recommendations on how to reduce them. IPC is directly linked to the Poverty Group of the Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), which does research for the Brazilian Government.
World Institute for Development Economics Research
A United Nations University, the WIDER Institute seeks to undertake multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the living conditions of the world's poorest people.
World Bank Povertynet
PovertyNet provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners.
REGIONAL FOCUS
CEPAL
La CEPAL es una de las cinco comisiones regionales de las Naciones Unidas y su sede está en Santiago de Chile. Se fundó para contribuir al desarrollo económico de América Latina, coordinar las acciones encaminadas a su promoción y reforzar las relaciones económicas de los países entre sí y con las demás naciones del mundo. Posteriormente, su labor se amplió a los países del Caribe y se incorporó el objetivo de promover el desarrollo social.
UNICEF Latin America section
With its presence in 191 countries, UNICEF is the world's leading advocate for children. UNICEF programmes in the region help to inspire a common vision of child rights, and to mobilize societies to pursue that vision so that the rights of every child are fulfilled.
UNICEF Sección América Latina
Dada su presencia en 191 países, el UNICEF es el principal paladín mundial de los intereses de la infancia. Los programas de UNICEF en la región contribuyen a inspirar una visión común de los derechos de la infancia, y a movilizar a la sociedades para poner en práctica esta visión a fin de que se satisfagan los derechos de todos los niños y las niñas.
World Food Programme Latin America section
An organ of the United Nations, the WFP seeks reduce world hunger.
Network on Inequality and Poverty /Red sobre desigualdad en America Latina y el Caribe
The LACEA/IDB/WORLD BANK Network on Inequality and Poverty is a joint initiative that aims to advance the state of knowledge and expertise regarding the causes and consequences of poverty, inequality, and social exclusion, and the whole range of policies, institutions, and social structures that influence their dynamics as well as the impact of public action.
NIP also has country chapters for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Poverty and Inequality Research Unit.
The mission of the Unit is to provide technical leadership for the Bank and its member governments in the areas of poverty reduction and promoting social equity, and to contribute to enhancing the quality of the Bank's lending and non-lending activities so as to increase their impact on poverty reduction and social equity.
The Unit is also responsible for monitoring the Bank's portfolio with respect to how loans are targeted to assist the poor, and for providing support to improve poverty targeting mechanisms within operations. In addition, the Unit assists in knowledge-building, including fostering links to worldwide expertise and ensuring access by staff and clients to this knowledge infrastructure; and seeks to improve the quality of information and analysis of poverty and inequality.
IDB -El Instituto Interamericano para el Desarrollo Social, INDES, es una parte integral del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID/IDB) y funciona como centro de capacitación con respecto al diseño y gerencia de políticas y programas sociales.
World Bank Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean homepage
The objectives of the Bank's analytical work on poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean are to help governments with:
El Centro Interamericano de Investigación y Documentación sobre Formación Profesional (CINTERFOR) es un servicio técnico de la OIT, creado en 1963. Actúa como núcleo de un sistema constituido por las instituciones y organismos de formación profesional de los Estados Miembros de la OIT en las Américas y España.
Sede: Montevideo, Uruguay
Strategies and Tools and Social Exclusion and Poverty (STEP)
STEP is a global programme of the Social Security Department centered on the poor and excluded populations in the informal economy as well as in the rural sector. STEP works in two complementary fields: extension of the social security in the field of health and the approaches integrated of fight against social exlusion into local level.
en español: Estrategias y Técnicas contra la Exclusión Social y la Pobreza
STEP es un programa mundial de centrado en las poblaciones pobres y excluidas en la economía informal así como en el medio rural. STEP trabaja en dos ámbitos complementarios:la extensión de la seguridad social en el ámbito de la salud y los enfoques integrados de lucha contra la exlusión social a nivel local.
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Latin America section
This is Canada’s lead agency for development assistance. It has a mandate to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.The Americas Branch promotes economic growth that benefits all sectors of the population by removing barriers, building up capacity, and creating opportunities so that poor people can participate in the economy.
International Development and Research Centre Latin America section
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they FACE. The Centre's operations in Latin America and the Caribbean are guided by a regional office located in Montevideo, Uruguay. This office coordinates the Centre's operations in 49 countries, in a territory extending from Mexico to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile. In the past 30 years, IDRC has supported 1,957 research projects directed and managed by Latin American and Caribbean researchers and institutions. Research related to social and economic equity is the largest focus of IDRC's support in the region.
en español
El IDRC es una corporación pública creada en 1970 por el Parlamento de Canadá y está dirigida por un Consejo de Gobernadores internacional. El Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC), contribuye a la búsqueda de soluciones a los problemas sociales, económicos y ambientales de las comunidades en el mundo en desarrollo, a través del financiamiento de investigaciones científicas. La Oficina Regional tiene su sede en Montevideo, Uruguay. El objetivo principal de este sitio web es el de difundir las actividades que el IDRC promueve en la región, así como los resultados de investigaciones realizadas por especialistas de la región de América Latina y el Caribe.
La Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI) es un organismo internacional de carácter gubernamental para la cooperación entre los países iberoamericanos en el campo de la educación, la ciencia, la tecnología y la cultura en el contexto del desarrollo integral, la democracia y la integración regional.
Los Estados Miembros de pleno derecho y observadores son todos los países iberoamericanos que conforman la comunidad de naciones integrada por Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, República Dominicana, Ecuador, El Salvador, España, Guatemala, Guinea Ecuatorial, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Uruguay y Venezuela.
La sede central de su Secretaría General está en Madrid, España, y cuenta con Oficinas Regionales en Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, El Salvador, España, México y Perú, así como con Oficinas en Chile, República Dominicana, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Paraguay.
La financiación de la OEI y de sus programas está cubierto mediante las cuotas obligatorias y las aportaciones voluntarias que efectúan los Gobiernos de los Estados Miembros y por las contribuciones que para determinados proyectos puedan aportar instituciones, fundaciones y otros organismos interesados en el mejoramiento de la calidad educativa y en el desarrollo científico-tecnológico y cultural.
UNDP Poverty Reduction Programme
Part of the Millennium Development Goals. This program advocates for nationally-owned solutions to reduce poverty and promote human development. They sponsor innovative pilot projects; connect countries to global good practices and resources; promote the role of women in development; and bring governments, civil society and outside funders together to coordinate their efforts.
UNDP Millennium Development Goals Homepage
The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s. Responding to the world's main development challenges and to the calls of civil society, the MDGs promote poverty reduction, education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality, AIDS and other diseases. Set for the year 2015, the MDGs are an agreed set of goals that can be achieved if all actors work together and do their part. Poor countries have pledged to govern better, and invest in their people through health care and education. Rich countries have pledged to support them, through aid, debt relief, and fairer trade.
UNDP International Poverty Centre
The International Poverty Centre (IPC) is a joint project between the United Nations Development Programme and the Brazilian Government to promote South-South Cooperation on applied poverty research. It specializes in analyzing poverty and inequality and offering research-based policy recommendations on how to reduce them. IPC is directly linked to the Poverty Group of the Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), which does research for the Brazilian Government.
World Institute for Development Economics Research
A United Nations University, the WIDER Institute seeks to undertake multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the living conditions of the world's poorest people.
World Bank Povertynet
PovertyNet provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners.
REGIONAL FOCUS
CEPAL
La CEPAL es una de las cinco comisiones regionales de las Naciones Unidas y su sede está en Santiago de Chile. Se fundó para contribuir al desarrollo económico de América Latina, coordinar las acciones encaminadas a su promoción y reforzar las relaciones económicas de los países entre sí y con las demás naciones del mundo. Posteriormente, su labor se amplió a los países del Caribe y se incorporó el objetivo de promover el desarrollo social.
Subsede México
http://www.eclac.cl/mexico/
Subregional headquarters for the Caribbbean
http://www.cepal.org/portofspain/default.asp?idioma=IN
Subsede Colombia
http://www.cepal.org/colombia/
Escritorio Brasil
http://www.cepal.org/brasil/default.asp
Subsede Argentina
http://www.cepal.org/argentina/default.asp
Subsede Uruguay
http://www.cepal.org/uruguay/default.asp
Subregional Washington, DC Office
http://www.eclac.cl/washington/
http://www.eclac.cl/mexico/
Subregional headquarters for the Caribbbean
http://www.cepal.org/portofspain/default.asp?idioma=IN
Subsede Colombia
http://www.cepal.org/colombia/
Escritorio Brasil
http://www.cepal.org/brasil/default.asp
Subsede Argentina
http://www.cepal.org/argentina/default.asp
Subsede Uruguay
http://www.cepal.org/uruguay/default.asp
Subregional Washington, DC Office
http://www.eclac.cl/washington/
UNICEF Latin America section
With its presence in 191 countries, UNICEF is the world's leading advocate for children. UNICEF programmes in the region help to inspire a common vision of child rights, and to mobilize societies to pursue that vision so that the rights of every child are fulfilled.
UNICEF Sección América Latina
Dada su presencia en 191 países, el UNICEF es el principal paladín mundial de los intereses de la infancia. Los programas de UNICEF en la región contribuyen a inspirar una visión común de los derechos de la infancia, y a movilizar a la sociedades para poner en práctica esta visión a fin de que se satisfagan los derechos de todos los niños y las niñas.
World Food Programme Latin America section
An organ of the United Nations, the WFP seeks reduce world hunger.
Network on Inequality and Poverty /Red sobre desigualdad en America Latina y el Caribe
The LACEA/IDB/WORLD BANK Network on Inequality and Poverty is a joint initiative that aims to advance the state of knowledge and expertise regarding the causes and consequences of poverty, inequality, and social exclusion, and the whole range of policies, institutions, and social structures that influence their dynamics as well as the impact of public action.
NIP also has country chapters for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Poverty and Inequality Research Unit.
The mission of the Unit is to provide technical leadership for the Bank and its member governments in the areas of poverty reduction and promoting social equity, and to contribute to enhancing the quality of the Bank's lending and non-lending activities so as to increase their impact on poverty reduction and social equity.
The Unit is also responsible for monitoring the Bank's portfolio with respect to how loans are targeted to assist the poor, and for providing support to improve poverty targeting mechanisms within operations. In addition, the Unit assists in knowledge-building, including fostering links to worldwide expertise and ensuring access by staff and clients to this knowledge infrastructure; and seeks to improve the quality of information and analysis of poverty and inequality.
IDB -El Instituto Interamericano para el Desarrollo Social, INDES, es una parte integral del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID/IDB) y funciona como centro de capacitación con respecto al diseño y gerencia de políticas y programas sociales.
World Bank Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean homepage
The objectives of the Bank's analytical work on poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean are to help governments with:
- Poverty Diagnostics: to identify the poor and where they live and better understand why they are poor.
- Poverty Reduction Strategies: to prepare poverty reduction strategies and programs, such as Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT).
- Monitoring and Evaluating for Results: to achieve results by learning from policy experiences via the monitoring of social indicators and impact evaluation.
- Strategy to fight against Poverty: to have a better-targeted poverty alleviation policy
Oficina regional para America Latina y el Caribe
Oficina subregional para el Conosur (Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay)
Oficina subregional para Centroamérica, Haití, República Dominicana y Panamá
Oficina subregional para los Países Andinos
Oficina para Argentina
Escritório no Brazil
Oficina para Cuba y México
Oficina subregional para el Conosur (Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay)
Oficina subregional para Centroamérica, Haití, República Dominicana y Panamá
Oficina subregional para los Países Andinos
Oficina para Argentina
Escritório no Brazil
Oficina para Cuba y México
El Centro Interamericano de Investigación y Documentación sobre Formación Profesional (CINTERFOR) es un servicio técnico de la OIT, creado en 1963. Actúa como núcleo de un sistema constituido por las instituciones y organismos de formación profesional de los Estados Miembros de la OIT en las Américas y España.
Sede: Montevideo, Uruguay
Strategies and Tools and Social Exclusion and Poverty (STEP)
STEP is a global programme of the Social Security Department centered on the poor and excluded populations in the informal economy as well as in the rural sector. STEP works in two complementary fields: extension of the social security in the field of health and the approaches integrated of fight against social exlusion into local level.
en español: Estrategias y Técnicas contra la Exclusión Social y la Pobreza
STEP es un programa mundial de centrado en las poblaciones pobres y excluidas en la economía informal así como en el medio rural. STEP trabaja en dos ámbitos complementarios:la extensión de la seguridad social en el ámbito de la salud y los enfoques integrados de lucha contra la exlusión social a nivel local.
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Latin America section
This is Canada’s lead agency for development assistance. It has a mandate to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.The Americas Branch promotes economic growth that benefits all sectors of the population by removing barriers, building up capacity, and creating opportunities so that poor people can participate in the economy.
International Development and Research Centre Latin America section
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they FACE. The Centre's operations in Latin America and the Caribbean are guided by a regional office located in Montevideo, Uruguay. This office coordinates the Centre's operations in 49 countries, in a territory extending from Mexico to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile. In the past 30 years, IDRC has supported 1,957 research projects directed and managed by Latin American and Caribbean researchers and institutions. Research related to social and economic equity is the largest focus of IDRC's support in the region.
en español
El IDRC es una corporación pública creada en 1970 por el Parlamento de Canadá y está dirigida por un Consejo de Gobernadores internacional. El Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC), contribuye a la búsqueda de soluciones a los problemas sociales, económicos y ambientales de las comunidades en el mundo en desarrollo, a través del financiamiento de investigaciones científicas. La Oficina Regional tiene su sede en Montevideo, Uruguay. El objetivo principal de este sitio web es el de difundir las actividades que el IDRC promueve en la región, así como los resultados de investigaciones realizadas por especialistas de la región de América Latina y el Caribe.
La Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI) es un organismo internacional de carácter gubernamental para la cooperación entre los países iberoamericanos en el campo de la educación, la ciencia, la tecnología y la cultura en el contexto del desarrollo integral, la democracia y la integración regional.
Los Estados Miembros de pleno derecho y observadores son todos los países iberoamericanos que conforman la comunidad de naciones integrada por Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, República Dominicana, Ecuador, El Salvador, España, Guatemala, Guinea Ecuatorial, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Uruguay y Venezuela.
La sede central de su Secretaría General está en Madrid, España, y cuenta con Oficinas Regionales en Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, El Salvador, España, México y Perú, así como con Oficinas en Chile, República Dominicana, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Paraguay.
La financiación de la OEI y de sus programas está cubierto mediante las cuotas obligatorias y las aportaciones voluntarias que efectúan los Gobiernos de los Estados Miembros y por las contribuciones que para determinados proyectos puedan aportar instituciones, fundaciones y otros organismos interesados en el mejoramiento de la calidad educativa y en el desarrollo científico-tecnológico y cultural.