the evidence from the chilean government s strategy to reduce poverty showed its inability to reach the poorest who at the same time were excluded from accessing social services barrientos palma and urzua during this phase chile moved to a social assistance based model of social protection adopting conditional cash transfers ccts as the main instrument thus following the trend in many other latin american countries over the last twenty years ferreira and robalino as with other ccts it provides monetary transfers to indigent families enabling them to move out of extreme poverty in the short term while it tries to support vulnerable people by creating opportunities for a better future in the long term