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| Ruel, Marie T.; de la Briere, Benedicte; Hallman, Kelly K.; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Coj de Salazar, Nora. |
| High urbanization rates in Latin America are accompanied by an increase in women’s participation in the labor force and the number of households headed by single mothers. Reliable and affordable childcare alternatives are thus becoming increasingly important in urban areas. The Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), established in Guatemala City in 1991, was a direct response to the increasing need of poor urban dwellers for substitute childcare. This government-sponsored pilot program was designed as a strategy to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community. This paper presents preliminary findings from an evaluation of the HCP carried out in 1998 in urban slums of Guatemala City. The evaluation... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16404 |
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| Ruel, Marie T.; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Hallman, Kelly K.; de la Briere, Benedicte; Coj de Salazar, Nora. |
| The community daycare programs currently under way in several Latin American countries seek to promote human capital formation while relieving one of the most pressing constraints faced by working parents, especially mothers—access to reliable and affordable childcare. This research report presents the results of an evaluation of Guatemala’s Community Day Care program, which offers poor families a package of services to promote child nutrition, socialization, and development, under the condition that parents engage in income-generating activities outside the home. The program was created in the early 1990s as a response to the changing needs of the growing urban population. Given Guatemala’s rising rates of urbanization, the growing importance of formal... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Day care centers; Guatemala; Evaluation; Child care services; Nutrition; Urban women; Employment; Work and family; Hogares Communitarios Program; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37886 |
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