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This study collects and systematizes detailed, updated and comparable information about the design, management, funding and quality of child development services in Latin America and the Caribbean. It focuses on two types of programs serving children from 0 to 3 years of age and their families: (a) those that provide child care through institutional and community modalities and (b) parenting programs. Through a varied set of interventions, the two types of programs studied aim to make an impact on the environment of care that children are exposed to during a particularly vulnerable period of their lives. In preparation for this study, we conducted a thorough process of data collection throughout 2011. Using a structured interview with at least one informant per program, detailed information was collected on a nonrepresentative sample of 42 programs in 19 countries within Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to the interview, during the visit to each one of the programs, it was possible to observe a few centers where services are provided, and the information collected at these observation visits was systematized. Those programs with the greatest coverage in each of the countries studied were included. (author abstract)
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