This project aims at promoting social protection policies and institutional arrangements that contribute to reduce poverty, inequality and social exclusion, in accordance with the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1). Through the development of a toolkit of policy and programme options, knowledge sharing and the provision of technical advice, the project will strengthen the capacity of governments to implement and sustain effective and long-term social policies as part of inclusive social protection systems, which are based on social rights and are politically supported by fiscal or social covenants. It will also enhance knowledge and cooperation on tools for the monitoring and evaluation of social policy/social protection systems reforms and institutionalized support required for such reforms, through the exchange of experiences and good practices among countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region, as well as selected countries in the Western Asia and the Asia-Pacific regions.