Opportunities Network (Red de Oportunidades)

Conditional cash transfer programme (CCT) with an emphasis on reducing extreme poverty. The programme has a specific component for rural and indigenous areas (Programme of grants for families to boy food). It also includes components of family support and to improve the local supply of social services. The programme began in 2006 focusing on the districts with the highest incidence of extreme poverty, but with the aim of have a full coverage in all the country`s localities. The geographical arrangement of the progress of the programme was organized according to the results of the index of extreme poverty incidence (IPE) based on the Living Standards Survey 2003. The family support component primarily allows the exchange of information on the status of the beneficiary households and on compliance with the conditionalities. The component of increased social services supply does not have a clear method of execution yet.