In collaboration with multilateral and civil society organizations, the Dialogue has created a regional community that promotes the improvement of child development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Together, this group developed the Regional Agenda for the Comprehensive Development of Early Childhood. The Agenda is a policy agreement aimed at guiding countries’ efforts to strengthen public policies for early childhood, as well as promoting accountability at the regional level in this area.
The Regional Agenda was launched in 2017 at the Regional Forum on the Comprehensive Development of Early Childhood, held in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2024, the Second Regional Forum on the Comprehensive Development of Early Childhood took place, bringing together representatives from governments, civil society, and cooperation agencies in Bogotá, Colombia. Together, they signed the “Declaration of the Second Regional Forum on the Comprehensive Development of Early Childhood” (also available in Spanish and Portuguese), in which they reaffirmed and consolidated the four initial agreements of the Agenda and agreed to include a fifth agreement.
REMDI (for its acronym in Spanish) is a regional network of specialists that seeks to promote and facilitate current and future surveying and measuring efforts so that all Latin American and Caribbean countries have clear, technically sound mechanisms for evaluating childhood development at the national level.
Somos Crianza is a Latin American Coalition of Early Childhood Networks, whose purpose is to make early childhood a priority in the region through the construction of better policies for child well-being in all countries. the networks that make up the Somos Crianza coalition are from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. Somos Crianza was created in 2023.
In order to measure progress towards the fulfillment of the agenda’s four prioritized goals, each country produces national early childhood country progress reports. The objective is to highlight progress and challenges in early childhood policies, as well as opportunities for improvement. Subsequently, the Inter-American Dialogue prepares a regional report in which it draws out common patterns across countries and identifies possibilities for regional exchange and collaboration.
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