The project aims at increasing country capacities in the ECLAC region to effectively implement public policies for the achievement of the SDGs, with a focus on poverty eradication, closing inequality gaps and expanding the realization of rights for the most disadvantaged population groups. The main project stakeholders will be Ministries of Social Development and Social Cabinets, which have a key role in articulating policies and programmes among ministries in the social area (e.g. health, education). The project will focus its activities on two inter-related pillars. The first pillar responds to the challenges faced by governments in designing and implementing institutional frameworks and policies able to address the multiple SDGs and their targets in a coordinated manner. Through increased social management capacity, governments and other relevant stakeholders should be able to set up mechanisms for the integration of social public policies and carrying out national coordination processes among different social ministries and institutions. The second pillar will respond to the challenge of providing reliable analysis on the groups which are being left furthest behind in the various SDG and targets, in order to prioritize public policies, and to the challenges faced by governments in order to address the needs of specific groups of the population and to reduce the existing inequality gaps.