In itself, the international workshop was also the first step in integrating the international and regional networks of social funds by bringing together families of programs that started with different sector priorities and approaches, such as the AGETIPs in Western Africa and the social investment funds in Latin America, and by stimulating the creation of social funds networks in Eastern Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Northern Africa and the Middle East. The international development agencies and the NGOs at the workshop committed them- selves to more integrated and coordinated support to social funds. They also committed to the promotion of a more systematic use of.