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Health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean face growing challenges in ensuring efficient, sustainable, and high-quality services for everyone.
Extended School Say Policies. Why, when and how?
This publication analyzes Extended School Day (ESD) policies, assessing their relevance in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as well as their implementation in various international contexts. Various JEE formats, their objectives and potential contributions to the education system are presented.
Building an Optimal Education Workforce
Ensuring efficient distribution of educational personnel is key to improving the quality and equity of the education system. This technical note presents a conceptual framework for implementing an Optimal Functional Staffing plana process that enables estimation and management of the appropriate number of educational personnel in each school, avoiding both shortages and surpluses in allocation. Additionally, it discusses the necessary conditions for implementation, emphasizing the importance of having an institutionalized process supported by reliable data and a trained technical team.
Care Chains: The Role of Grandmothers in Their Daughters’ Employment
Childcare is one of the main determinants of women’s participation in the labor market, especially during early childhood. In contexts where access to childcare services is limited, family networks play a central role in families’ daily organization. Within these networks, grandmothers are often a key source of support, although their contribution is not always visible or quantified. What happens when these grandmothers stop working and have more time?
What to Do with Unused Breast Milk? A Reflection on Breastfeeding and Donation
Breastfeeding has been one of the most transformative and challenging experiences of my life. From the moment my son, Lucas, was born, I found in breastfeeding a unique way to nourish and connect with him—but it was not always easy, especially when work required me to spend time away from him.
Adapting monetary poverty lines to reflect the costs of disabilities: An empirical application to Peru
Persons with disabilities incur extra costs of living (e.g., for personal assistance, assistive devices, medical care, transportation), which are not reflected in monetary poverty lines. This has several negative consequences. First, governments underestimate the rate of poverty among persons with disabilities. Second, many persons with disabilities are erroneously excluded from social programs. Finally, even for those persons with disabilities that are declared eligible, the value of the benefits set by the governments is likely to be insufficient (for example, to close the poverty gap).
Predictable and Preventable: Designing Protection for Recurring Shocks
What happens when a household loses a job, gets hit by flood, or experiences a health emergency? For many families in the region, it’s not just a one-time hardship, it’s part of a repeating pattern.
Five Priorities for a Coordinated and Comprehensive Approach to Violence Against Women
If you have ever watched a beehive, you would have noticed that it operates through coordination. Each bee plays a role in a system based on communication, cooperation, and a shared purpose. In a similar way, institutional responses to violence against women require coordination and a comprehensive approach.
Technical workshop: Interoperability and social determinants of health
Technical workshop that explores how to continue advancing the use of social registries' interoperability as a means to benefit individuals, aiming to align the way organizations interpret information and take action to improve service delivery among social service providers. Interoperability could help us analyze the social determinants of health and address the underlying social causes of exposure and vulnerability.
Taller técnico: Uso de los datos de los registros sociales
Taller técnico donde se aborda cómo el análisis de los datos de los registros sociales pueden utilizarse de forma innovadora para diseñar programas, realizar seguimiento y evaluación más precisos. Además cómo utilizar estos datos para fines estadísticos, evidencia y toma de decisiones (más allá de focalización de los programas de protección social).