This article presents the process of creating the Dominican Child Development Measurement System (SIMEDID, in Spanish). This digital platform guides evaluators in administering an instrument that measures development in boys and girls from 0 to 5 years old who receive services at the Instituto Nacional de Atención Integral a la Primera Infancia.

The instrument has been validated and the research team is currently obtaining national test norms for the Dominican population. 

The Regional Network on Measuring Early Childhood Development, with the support of the Inter-American Dialogue, the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) and the Early Childhood Development Action Network - ECDAN, held the online conference: Regional Network to Measure Childhood Development: Advances Made in the Agenda for Measuring Early Childhood in Latin America.

It was a space for knowledge sharing and reflecting on the accumulated experience from the teams measuring early childhood development in Latin American countries. It also discussed, with a critical eye, the pending and emerging challenges of recovery after the pandemic.

Mapping of Ongoing Surveys and Systematization of Lessons Learned.

This document contains an initial mapping of ongoing surveys in Latin America with two essential objectives:

i) to identify common themes and interests among the surveys implemented in the different countries of the region; and

ii) to analyze both the strengths and the bottlenecks faced when implementing this type of measurement exercises, particularly during a situation of social distancing such as the one implied by Covid-19.

The main focus of this report is on the objectives, design, methodology, and instruments used in the surveys.