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 interamerican social protection network which was launched by the oas in 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