Latin America
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Consultation event on Latin America Regional Assistance Plan 2008-11
I n Latin America and the Caribbean region, there are about 47 million people
who survive on less than $1 a day, and 123 million on less than $2 a day. That’s
roughly the population of Nigeria, living in more than 30 countries.
Inequality
is the most important challenge. Often that results from exclusion of certain
social groups (for example, indigenous peoples, women, Afrodescendents), poor governance
and lack of access to opportunities.
In Latin America, DFID works closely with the World Bank and the
Inter-American Development Bank to address these challenges. These two
institutions are important financiers of development in the region, and DFID
seeks to assist them to improve the poverty outcomes of their interventions. Our
regional programme for Latin
America is explained in the Regional Assistance Plan 2004-7 (298
kb).
We are currently in the process of planning for the next 3 years, and our
initial ideas are included in a consultation document, entitled ‘Moving
Forward’. We hope to launch our new Regional Assistance Plan (2008-11) by the
end of 2007.
In addition to our regional programme, we also have a bilateral programme of
assistance to Nicaragua and we work closely with important partners in
Brazil on
important global issues such as climate change, HIV/AIDS, and south-south
learning. Finally, we have an office in the Andes that implements our regional
programme in that region.
The specific themes we work on in Latin America are;
Social exclusion is an important theme that we incorporate into all our work
in the region.
Speech by International Development Minister Shahid Malik on
Social
and Political Exclusion in Latin America
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Last updated: 3 December 2007
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