Accelerating poverty reduction through sustainable economic growth and achieving the Caribbean-specific Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Caribbean-specific targets has been the principal focus of the Unified Special Development Fund [SDF (U)]. Successive cycles of the Special Development Fund (SDF) have sought to intensify and sharpen the focus on poverty by devising and implementing policies, strategic agenda, operating principles and concrete forms of assistance to poor people in the various Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs).