The EURO-SOLAR Programme (Financing Agreement 2006/17-223) was designed in 2006 and implemented in eight Latin American countries as from 2007, focusing its activities in the poorest countries of the subcontinent (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay)....

This paper provides an overview of the development of the conceptual framework underlying social protection programming and policy among the key international development institutions active in this sector. It sets out the historical, institutional and political factors underlying the current...