The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) sponsored a series of GVC research projects in a variety of Latin American countries, including a project to help the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the IDB to design and evaluate new GVC projects for the region. IDB has co-sponsored a number of international conferences and workshops on global value chains throughout Latin America, and supported a one-week GVC training program at the Caribbean Center for Competitiveness at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad in October 8-12, 2012.