The Inclusive Growth Area promotes investment in human capital with a view to expanding opportunities for people and, therefore, improving their well-being and quality of life. Strengthening education, developing labor skills, and investing in health and nutrition directly translates into lower poverty and inequality rates.

Cooperation actions are coordinated with a wide range of strategic partners, offering a programmatic platform that is relevant for both integration and effective policy coordination, minimizing overlaps, and improving efficiency by leveraging active projects across all dimensions of human capital investment and productive development.

Initiatives adopt a comprehensive approach that considers the life cycle of individuals, addressing two fundamental pillars:

Social Protection and Access to Basic Services throughout the life cycle

The aim is to guarantee equitable and sustained access to essential services for all people, ensuring conditions of well-being and resilience throughout the life cycle. 

The strategy reinforces support for family trajectories with a special focus on critical periods of the life cycle—such as early childhood, adolescence, and adulthood—and in contexts of multidimensional vulnerability.

The incorporation of digital tools allows for the design of solutions to identify needs, personalize responses, and make interventions more efficient.

Strategic pillars

1. Social protection and access to basic services: Strengthen social protection systems and ensure equitable access to essential services such as health, education, food, care, and connectivity, especially in neglected areas. The strategy places special emphasis on the integration of platforms and digital solutions that facilitate access, data interoperability, and the monitoring of life trajectories.

2. Capacity building and life trajectories: Accompanying people from childhood to adulthood in the development of their capacities. Priority is given to interventions in:

• Early childhood: Support for childcare areas and comprehensive policies with a family focus.

• Education and training: Digital inclusion in education and access to devices and connectivity.

• Health: Strengthening primary care, digitization of medical records, and equipment.

• Food security: Ensuring that all vulnerable families have sufficient access to safe and nutritious food.

3. Digital transformation and data-driven management for human capital policies: Promoting the digital transformation of the human capital policy ecosystem through data interoperability, the development of traceability mechanisms, and the use of technologies that strengthen transparency, efficiency, and accountability in the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of public policies. Technical assistance for improving social records, system interoperability, digitization of procedures, and strengthening state capacities to respond to vulnerabilities in a timely and efficient manner.