Social registries are the basis for the effective functioning of the social protection delivery chain. They are key to contribute to a more efficient and effective social protection, as well as a valuable tool to improve the coordination of social policy with a rights-based approach.
Este documento describe un experimento implementado en Costa Rica para aumentar el aprendizaje de estudiantes del nivel preescolar durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Aprovechando las redes existentes de padres, estudiamos el efecto directo de ser seleccionado para recibir los mensajes de texto SMS, así como los efectos indirectos de ser parte de una red de padres. Los mensajes de texto se enviaron a los padres o apoderados de los niños y niñas con el objetivo de apoyar su aprendizaje en el hogar.
Over the last decade, the migration landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has changed significantly. In this context, the socio-economic integration of immigrants is an increasingly high priority on the regional development and policy agenda.
A significant proportion of women in the region are employed as domestic workers, but only a minority of them have access to the social security system. The labor informality observed in this sector is twice the average informality rate of the rest of the salaried employees in the region. This note presents data on the situation of domestic workers in Latin America, followed by a discussion on the policies implemented to increase the formalization of labor for domestic workers in the region.
The shift to remote and hybrid education during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need to revise and improve the education and professional development of teachers. It revealed that teachers often lacked the digital and pedagogical skills to organize and deliver education remotely. Better educational systems and processes begin with better-quality teaching, not only in schools and classrooms, but now remotely and in hybrid form.
The shift to remote and hybrid education during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need to revise and improve the education and professional development of teachers. It revealed that teachers often lacked the digital and pedagogical skills to organize and deliver education remotely. Better educational systems and processes begin with better-quality teaching, not only in schools and classrooms, but now remotely and in hybrid form.
I was almost 10 years old when I started playing soccer. That year, my dad traveled for work to France and came back home with souvenirs for me and my brother from France ’98. I got a stuffed toy of the mascot, and my brother got the official soccer ball. He had never actually played the sport competitively. The year after that, my school’s soccer team ranked third in the first championship we participated in. We got Barbie dolls as a trophy. The boys’ team got gear and sponsorship for the next season.
What topics are critical for children? How to build bridges between scientific knowledge and public policies for early childhood? What lessons have we learned and what challenges lie ahead? These questions were addressed during the third workshop of the Community of Practice in Early Childhood Development (ECD), which focused on childhood policies in Brazil and on finding significant common ground among many countries in the region.
The pandemic may have a devastating impact on childrens physical, mental, and socioemotional development, both in the short and the long run. These repercussions have received little attention because of the low rates of COVID-19 in this population. However, child mortality, morbidity, and poverty are projected to rise, resulting in major losses of human capital and deepening inequality.
The rapid aging of the population will cause a sharp increase in the demand for dependency care services in Latin America and the Caribbean. In order to inform policy-making, in this study we present novel estimates of the number of dependent older people in 26 countries in the region. For 10 of these countries, estimates are based on existing survey data. For the remaining 16, we used a statistical model to predict the prevalence of dependency care based on the relationship between this condition and age, sex, and health status.