The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) works to reduce poverty and inequality, to improve health and education, and advance infrastructure through financial and technical support for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Recently, PAL Network members designed and implemented the International Common Assessment of Numeracy (ICAN) across 13 countries using a common tool. ICAN is an open-source, robust and easy-to-use assessment tool, available in 11 languages, that offers international comparability of results aligned to SDG 4.1.1 (a).

The study aimed to demonstrate proof of concept in two ways:

Open Data for Development (OD4D) is a global network of leaders in the Open Data community, working together to develop open data solutions around the world.

The Confederation of Industrial Chambers of the United Mexican States is the representative organism of the different industrial sectors and other important economic activities or the economic development of Mexico.

Equal Measures provides funding and technical support to a girls’ and women’s rights organization in each of its focus countries to strengthen data-driven advocacy for girls’ and women’s rights towards the achievement of the SDGs.

The Natural Resource Governance Institute helps people to realize the benefits of their countries’ endowments of oil, gas and minerals.

Telefónica is a multinational broadband and telecommunications provider.

GeoCensos Foundation is an officially registered NGO working in the Latin America and the Caribbean region that promotes innovative projects in geospatial disciplines.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations, was founded with the purpose of contributing to the economic development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards this end, and reinforcing economic ties among countries and with other nations of the world.

The OECD is an intergovernmental organization of 35 member countries committed to market economies backed by democratic institutions and focused on the well-being of all citizens. Its mission is to promote policies to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.

IDEAS For Us develops, funds, and scales solutions that solve the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.

Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

TECHO is a youth-led non-profit organization present in Latin America & the Caribbean. Through the joint work of families living in extreme poverty and youth volunteers, TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums.