The social protection system, the Red Protege, integrated with intersectoral components (mainly education, health, housing and social security), is organized in three core parts or subsystems:

• the poverty and vulnerability social protection system (Chile Solidario);

• the comprehensive child social protection system (Chile Crece Contigo); and

• the labour social protection system. The social protection system elaborated between 2006 and 2010:

• supports and guides people throughout their life cycle;

• considers the family, in all its diversity, as the recipient and not the supporter of social protection;

• combines direct monetary transfers (immediate distributive actions) with promotional or development initiatives to build and equalize opportunities; and

• secures rights based on a legal framework that institutionalizes social protection.