Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month: What did we discuss at our event?

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The IDB’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month event, “Proud in Being Who We Are: More Inclusive Societies for LGBTQ+ People,” was an opportunity to open valuable and necessary conversations about LGBTQ+ inclusion. In the first panel, “Identifying and Removing Barriers,” public sector authorities from Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador joined two specialists from the IDB group to address the challenges and barriers to accessing services and exercising full citizen rights for LGBTQ+ people.

6 remote and hybrid caregiver engagement models that boost child outcomes

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Caregiver engagement is vital for early childhood development. When parents or other caregivers actively participate in their child’s learning, provide a nurturing and supportive environment, and engage in meaningful interactions—children benefit in multiple domains, including cognitive, social, and emotional. Yet, many caregivers, particularly those in low-resourced households, may face challenges in optimal engagement. Factors such as limited time, financial constraints, lack of access to educational resources, and other socioeconomic pressures can impact caregiver engagement.

Belize Further Paves the Way to Malaria Elimination in Mesoamerica with IDB Support

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The Country is Certified Malaria-Free by the World Health Organization. Malaria has plagued populations all over the world for almost five thousand years, claiming millions of lives. It was endemic on all continents in the 1950’s. Since then, it has been eradicated in Europe and Northern America. Now, Mesoamerica is also heading towards elimination.

2020 Pension Indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean

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The PLAC Network's Pension Indicators are a dataset containing information related to the labor markets and pension systems of the nineteen PLAC Network member countries: Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay. The indicators are divided into five main categories: environment, performance, sustainability, society's preparedness for aging and reform, and pension system design.

Labor Costs Annex 1

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This paper presents new data documenting the cost of salaried labor in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries. We gather data on the three main costs associated to hiring salaried labor; (i) minimum wages and other monetary benefits, (ii) mandated contributions for social insurance and other benefits and (iii) job security provisions. We present two new indicators. First, we calculate the average non-wage cost of salaried labor (NWC).

Data of Violence against women - Colombia - Survey answers

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This file contains data from a natural experiment that enabled an analysis of the impact of having received services offered by the violence against women hotline 123 Mujer in Medellin, Colombia on women callers´ reports of subsequent experiences of intimate partner violence, among other indicators. Study participants were 749 women callers (459 treatment and 290 controls) who had called the hotline between September 2013 and May 2014.

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