COVID-19 Sets Back Progress Made on the Welfare of Women and Diverse Populations

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By March 2020, COVID-19 was confirmed present in all Latin American and Caribbean countries. Not only did the pandemic weakened the regions economy, it exacerbated structural inequalities. Women, indigenous peoples, African descendants, persons with disabilities and the LGBTQ community were disproportionately affected by the pandemic, reflecting both the vulnerability of these groups and the fragility of the progress made in recent years toward improving their social welfare.

Designing a Results-Based Financing Model: Recommendations and Guidelines

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Los Modelos de Financiamiento por Resultados son mecanismos innovadores que buscan acelerar los resultados, trasladando el foco de modelos tradicionales que pagan por actividades e insumos a modelos que pagan por resultados. Adicionalmente, para incrementar el impacto de las diferentes acciones realizadas por los agentes, este tipo de modelos también permite la flexibilidad y adaptabilidad de las intervenciones buscando siempre aquellas que sean más costo-efectivas para alcanzar las metas.

Designing a Results-Based Financing Model: Recommendations and Guidelines

Submitted by SPH DIGITAL on

Los Modelos de Financiamiento por Resultados son mecanismos innovadores que buscan acelerar los resultados, trasladando el foco de modelos tradicionales que pagan por actividades e insumos a modelos que pagan por resultados. Adicionalmente, para incrementar el impacto de las diferentes acciones realizadas por los agentes, este tipo de modelos también permite la flexibilidad y adaptabilidad de las intervenciones buscando siempre aquellas que sean más costo-efectivas para alcanzar las metas.

WorkerTech: How Technology Can Improve Emerging Jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean

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WorkerTech is defined as digital services that offer independent workers benefits to improve the social protection and the productivity. Today, thinking only in terms of full-time salaried work and permanent contracts ignores the millions of people who earn income and shape their lives through a wide variety of unconventional labor relationships, which have proliferated in the 21st century. The shift from traditional salaried work to new modalities implies that workers must reconstruct the labor structure necessary to be able to work. This is where WorkerTech services come in.

Can cash transfers boost child development?

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We’ve talked before about how poverty negatively impacts both early child development and brain development. Young children are shaped by the stimulation they receive, as well as the words they hear and the significant relationships they have. However, these factors vary considerably from one socioeconomic level to another. To bolster child development, we have to bring down poverty. Can we use monthly cash transfers to accomplish this goal? 

Preventing violence in early childhood in the context of COVID-19

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In late 2021, more than 80 officials and representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean met for a dialogue on the challenges faced and the innovations developed around the issues of health, social protection, and early childhood development since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In that Regional Policy Dialogue, we discussed extensively the subject of violence against children, considering how COVID-19 has exacerbated violence within households.

Soy Cappaz, support to people with some type of intellectual disability

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Fundación MAPFRE and Fundación GMP (Spain) bring the Soy Cappaz mobile app. It offers support to people with some type of intellectual disability. It is a very useful tool that helps people with different abilities to join the world of work; the idea is that with it they can develop their lives in a more independent way.

Google BrailleBack

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BrailleBack is an accessibility app that helps users of braille devices. In order for it to work, it must work in conjunction with the TalkBack app to provide a combined speech and braille experience.

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