REMDI is a regional network of specialists that seeks to promote and facilitate current and future surveying and measuring efforts so that all Latin American and the Caribbean countries have clear, technically sound mechanisms for evaluating childhood development at the national level. This allows for comparisons between countries as well as between population subgroups within a country.

The main objective of the Network is to promote a common approach in the region for measuring early childhood development, involving regular and periodic national childhood development surveys. This will make it possible to have quality population diagnoses that guide early childhood policies in the region.

REMDI is a regional network of specialists that includes representatives from the Inter-American Dialogue and of early childhood programs from the governments of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Paraguay, Dominican Republic and El Salvador.

Their tasks:

– Facilitate access to information from surveys on longitudinal studies, populations, evaluation of childhood development programs and services, among others, as well as instruments for measuring childhood development.
– Promote the exchange of lessons learned from ongoing efforts in various countries of the region.
– Promote the development and dissemination of common materials and outlines for both measuring childhood development and analysing and utilizing the information.
– Develop opportunities for technical assistance to countries that require it.