WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD POLICIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN?

#earlychildhood #policies #ECD #IDB The news for early childhood in Latin America and the Caribbean are mixed: on the one hand, it is the region where access to childcare centers has increased the most; and on the other, the pandemic has hit the operation of these services hard and the gains of recent decades could be reversed. How can we invest wisely in early childhood to close the development gaps that the pandemic has deepened? How can social protection and early childhood policies serve to remediate the human capital losses seen in the post-pandemic? What initiatives can have long-term effects to improve the lives of the youngest children and their caregivers and break the cycle of poverty? Watch this conversation with leading global experts and authorities from the region, who addressed these and other questions in a virtual event celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Innovation Fund, a partnership between the IDB, FEMSA Foundation, the María Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Porticus and the Bernard Van Leer Foundation that funds, designs, implements and evaluates innovative and scalable solutions to improve the lives of children in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). More information: https://desarrollo-infantil.iadb.org/... #ECDhubLAC At the Inter-American Development Bank we work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. http://www.iadb.org