The purpose of this document is to evaluate evaluate the association between trajectories of attendance to the initial education program of Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (GIMSS) during 2006-2010 and academic achievement in elementary school during 2009-2013. 

The 2024 RURAL Nutrition, Child Development, and Health Survey (ENDIS) represents a milestone as it is the first survey on the situation of children aged 0 to 4 years in towns with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants and scattered rural areas in Uruguay. This inter-institutional effort, led by Uruguay Crece Contigo (UCC)-Ministry of Social Development (MIDES), the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), and the National Institute of Statistics (INE), seeks to settle a historical debt of information on the situation of children living in rural areas. 

The overall objective is to generate knowledge based on solid evidence to guide early childhood public policies in the country. The survey was conducted between September 2023 and May 2024, with a representative sample of 855 children. 

This paper aims to learn about the prevalence of early childhood development (ECD), its determinants and exposure to violent disciplinary methods in Mexican children in 2022.

We estimated the ECD, its determinants, and exposure to violent discipline methods indicators following the methodology of Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS).

The results allow us to know the children's situation and guide the public policy aimed at this population.

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.