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This document compares three versions of the same home visiting model, aimed at improving parent-child interactions and child development: the well-known Jamaica model, which was gradually scaled up from an efficacy trial (‘proof of concept’) in Jamaica, to a pilot in Colombia, to an at-scale program in Peru. It first describes the design, implementation and impacts of these three programs. Then, it analyzes the threats to scalability in each of these experiences and discusses how they could have affected program outcomes, with a focus on three of the elements of the economic model…
Prepared for the Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14-15 February 2018, this report tracks progress towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment of children in Pathfinding countries. Under the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, these countries have committed to three to five years of accelerated action towards target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): “End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children.”
The Solutions Summit aims to…
This presentation by Maureen Samms-Vaughan a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Child Health at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of the West Indies, was given at Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support on 26-27 May 2014. The presentation provides an overview of the National Approach to Parenting in Jamaica and the lessons learned from the program.
According to Jamaica’s Child Care and Protection Act of 2004, the family is the preferred environment for the care and upbringing of children. However, at the end of December 2007, there were 2,442 children in institutional care in Jamaica, over double the amount that were in foster care. In an effort to examine the system of care, the Office of the Children’s Advocate undertook research into the Foster Care Programme in Jamaica. The study, which was carried out by the UWI’s Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, aimed to determine the effectiveness and the…
Jamaicans for Justice has conducted an evaluation of monthly monitoring reports of children’s homes across the island for the years 2005 and 2006. This review is an addendum to the Summary Report on the Status of Children’s Homes presented to the Commission in February 2006. This review was initiated by way of applications under the Access to Information Act, providing us with the opportunity to follow up on the implementation of the Keating Report and the provisions of the Child Care and Protection Act, 2004.
Jamaicans for Justice believes that the process of evaluation and the monitoring…
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…