Country	Ministry of Social Development or equivalent	Year of creation of specific first instance	Children and adolescents	Youth	Older persons	Womens	Persons with disabilities	Migrants	Total of instances
Antigua y Barbuda	Ministry of Social Transformation and Human Resource Development	n.d.	M	E	.	MSD	.	M	1
Argentina	Ministry of Health and Social Development	2018	MSD	MSD	MSD	MSD	P	M	4
Bahamas	Ministry of Social Services and Community Development	n.d.	MSD	S	MSD	MSD	MSD	M	4
Belize	Ministry of Human Development, Social Transformation and Poverty Alleviation	1990	M	S	MSD	MSD	.	M	1
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	Ministry of Development Planning	2009	M	M	M	M	M	M	0
Brazil	Ministry of Social Development	2004	M	P	M	M	M	M	0
Chile	Ministry of Social Development	2011	MSD	MSD	MSD	S	MSD	M	5
Costa Rica	Ministry of Human Development and Social Inclusion/Joint Institute for Social Aid (IMAS)	2010	P	S	P	S	M	M	0
Cuba	Ministry of Labor and Social Security	1994	MSD	P	MSD	M	MSD	M	4
Dominica	Ministry of Social Services, Family and Gender Issues	n.d.	M	S	M	MSD	M	M	1
Ecuador	Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion	2013	MSD	MSD	MSD	P	MSD	M	2
Guatemala	Ministry of Social Development	2012	P	P	P	P	P	M	0
Haiti	Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment	n.d.	MSD	S	MSD	S	MDS	M	0
Honduras	Ministry of Social Development and Inclusion	2010	MSD	P	MSD	S	MSD	M	3
Mexico	Secretariat of Social Development	1992	P	P	MSD	S	MSD	M	2
Nicaragua	Ministry of the Family, Adolescence and Childhood	1998	MSD	S	MSD	S	P	M	2
Panama	Ministry of Social Development	2005	MSD	MSD	MSD	MSD	MSD	M	5
Peru	Ministry of Social Development and Inclusion	2011	M	M	M	S	M	M	0
Trinidad and Tobago	Ministry of the People and Social Development	n.d.	M	S	MSD	S	MSD	M	3
Uruguay	Ministry of Social Development	2005	P	MSD	MSD	MSD	MSD	M	4
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	Ministry of People's Power for Communities and Social Movements	2009	P	S	P	S	P	M	0

Country	Ministry of Social Development or equivalent	Year of creation of specific first instance	Children and adolescents	Youth	Older persons	Womens	Persons with disabilities	Migrants	Total of instances
Colombia	Social Prosperity Department	2011	P	P	MDS	P	M	M	1
El Salvador	Secretaría Técnica y de Planificación de la Presidencia de la República	2009	P	P	MDS	P	P	M	1
Jamaica	Jamaica Social Investment Fund of the Office of the Prime Minister	1996	M	S	M	S	M	M	0
Paraguay	Social Action Secretariat of the Office of the President of the Republic	1995	P	P	M	S	M	M	0
Dominican Republic	Social Policy Coordination Cabinet of the Office of the Vice President	2004	P	S	M	S	P	M	0

Source: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), based on official information reported by governments of the region.

(.) = Official information not available.
MSD= Ministry of Social Development has an explicit mandate on the different segments of the population
M = Ministry of another issue has the explicit mandate on different segments of the population. This category includes instances whose holder has a ministerial rank.
P= The Presidency has the explicit mandate on the protection of the different segments of the population.
S= Ministry dedicated to the protection of a specific segment (Ministry of Women, Children, among others). In some cases, ministries with diverse simultaneous mandates are presented.