… the short term (ECLAC, 2020d; Rubio and others, 2020)— to cover the population not enrolled in social security … (payable to mothers in single-parent families). They cover an estimated total of 70 million people. Between … designed for the poor but which are insufficient to cover the broad swaths of the population affected by the …

… of loss of parental care as they are sometimes used to cover up other issues such as children employed in domestic … cases in which a child has been adopted (although it does cover pre-adoption care) or an informal arrangement where the … of loss of parental care as they are sometimes used to cover up other issues such as children employed in domestic …

… health services. In Mexico, resources are set aside to cover the costs of additional health services demanded due to … health services. In Mexico, resources are set aside to cover the costs of additional health services demanded due to …

Several developing economies have recently introduced conditional cash transfer programs, which provide money to poor families contingent on certain behavior, usually investments in human capital, such as sending children to school or bringing them to health centers. Evaluation results for programs launched in Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Turkey reveal successes in addressing many of the failures in delivering social assistance, such as weak poverty targeting, disincentive effects, and limited welfare impacts. Many questions remain unanswered, however, including the…

This paper, produced by RELAF, is part of a series of publications on children without parental care in Latin America: Contexts, causes and answers. This document, and others in the series, pertains to the broad topic of children without parental care and examines the particular situation of institutionalised children. The information and analysis is focused on five central themes: first, the verification and analysis of the existence of large (or macro) institutions in the region; second, the institutionalization of infants due to “social causes” and its implications; third, the situation…

… Rouffet, Karen Stornelli and Michelle N. Williams. * Cover photos by ATD Fourth World show Burkina Faso (top) and … her eldest child (the details of which were explained in a cover letter). It was only in asking a neighbor to help her … Rouffet, Karen Stornelli and Michelle N. Williams. * Cover photos by ATD Fourth World show Burkina Faso (top) and …