The creation of a Social Protection Network (SPN) is included in the design as a means of providing guarantees to the families to enable them to live with dignity. To this end, the members of the SPN facilitate preferential access to services for beneficiary families and seek to reduce costs where feasible. This, in turn, has inspired the work of the Inter-American Social Protection Network, which was launched by the OAS in 2009 to exchange information on policies, experiences, programmes and best practices, with the goal of supporting national efforts in reducing social disparities, inequality and extreme poverty.