Since in Latin America the actions of the State are relatively less significant than those of other agents in the production and distribution of well-being, it would be useful to broaden the array of instruments and partnerships incorporated into social-policy design. The State must not only ensure that all members of society can enjoy active citizenship, which requires the construction and consolidation of mechanisms for social promotion and protection: it must also operate as a coordinating and regulatory body for all the actors that make it possible to generate or redistribute well-being. The State can achieve this by guiding and fostering a supply of social services which is compatible with an uneven demand structure and unequal access and by creating redistribution mechanisms that guarantee a universal minimum level of well-being so as to ensure the full exercise of rights and capacity-building.