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Early Childhood Comprehensive Care Strategy Political, Technical and Management Fundamentals EARLY CHILDHOOD COMPREHENSIVE CARE STRATEGY POLITICAL, TECHNICAL AND MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS Early Childhood Comprehensive Care Strategy POLITICAL, TECHNICAL AND MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS COORDINATION OF THE DOCUMENT Constanza Liliana Alarcón Párraga COMPIL ATION AND PRODUCTION OF THE FINAL TEXT Marina Camargo Abello Adriana Lucía Castro Rojas EDITING Mariana Schmidt Quintero Carolina Turriago Borrero PROOF READING Lilia Carvajal Ahumada DESIGN AND L AYOUT Misty Wells & Zea Asociados PRINTER Panamericana Formas e Impresos S.A. BOGOTÁ D.C., COLOMBIA 2013 ISBN 152152 OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT - R EPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón “DE CERO A SIEMPRE” STRATEGY SPOKESWOMAN María Clemencia Rodríguez de Santos HIGH COUNSELING FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT High Presidential Advisor for Special Programs María Cristina Trujillo de Muñoz NATIONAL PL ANNING DEPARTMENT General Director Tatiana Orozco Social Develoment Director Lina María Castaño Mesa MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION Minister Alejandro Gaviria Uribe Deputy Minister for Public Health and Service Providers Fernando Ruiz Gómez MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION Minister María Fernanda Campo Saavedra Deputy Minister for Pre-school, Basic and Middle School Julio Salvador Alandete MINISTRY OF CULTURE Minister Mariana Garcés Córdoba Deputy Minister of Culture María Claudia López Sorzano DEPARTMENT FOR SOCIAL PROSPERITY Director Gabriel Vallejo López Deputy Director Mariana Escobar Arango COLOMBIAN FAMILY WELFARE INSTITUTE General Director (Acting) Gabriel Vallejo López Early Childhood Director Natalia Velasco Castrillón NATIONAL AGENCY FOR OVERCOMING E XTREME POVERT Y (ANSPE) General Director Beatriz Linares Senior Management Advisor Ingrid Rusinque Osorio 5 EARLY CHILDHOOD COMPREHENSIVE CARE STRATEGY Technical Team of the Intersectoral Commission for Early Childhood Comprehensive Care HIGH COUNSELING FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Intersectoral Commission Coordinator Constanza Liliana Alarcón Párraga NATIONAL PL ANNING DEPARTMENT Health Deputy Director Anwar Rodríguez Chehade Advisor to the Social Development Director’s Office Juan Guillermo Alba Garzón MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION Advisor to the Minister’s Office Ana María Peñuela Poveda Lifetime Group Coordinator Martha Imelda Linero MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION Early Childhood Director Ana Beatriz Cárdenas Restrepo Early Childhood Quality Deputy Director Claudia Milena Gómez Díaz MINISTRY OF CULTURE Arts Director Guiomar Acevedo Gómez Populations Director Moisés Medrano Bohórquez Early Childhood Advisor Sandra Argel SOCIAL PROSPERITY DEPARTMENT Advisor to the General Deputy Director Angélica María González Advisor Miguel Mauricio Ortega COLOMBIAN FAMILY WELFARE INSTITUTE Early Childhood Director Natalia Velsasco Castrillón Director of the National Family Welfare System Yebrail Haddad Technical Management Deputy Director for Early Childhood Care Carlos del Castillo Cabrales Operations Deputy Director for Early Childhood Care Javier Medina NATIONAL AGENCY FOR OVERCOMING E XTREME POVERT Y (ANSPE) Institutional and Territorial Supply Manager Juliana Sánchez Calderón Advisor to the Early Childhood Dimension of the Institutional Offer María Consuelo Castro 6 EARLY CHILDHOOD COMPREHENSIVE CARE STRATEGY Technical Team of the Entities Contributing to the Reference Studies MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION Ana Aideé Pachón Durán • Angélica María González Acevedo Carolina Pedroza Bernal • Doris Andrea Suárez Pérez Hellen Maldonado Pinzón • Luz Ángela Caro Yazo Nidia Esperanza Buitrago Rodríguez • Patricia Helena Torres Salazar Pedro Antonio Barbosa Caicedo • Sara Elena Mestre Gutiérrez MINISTRY OF CULTURE Carolina Ospina • Claudia Mejía Fabio Alberto López • Graciela Prieto Juan Carlos Flechas • Juan Sebastián Suanca Margarita Ariza • María Teresa Jaime Pilar Bermúdez COLOMBIAN FAMILY WELFARE INSTITUTE Early Childhood Director’s Office Ana María Ortíz Hoyos • Diana Marcela Rodríguez Ríos Gerson Orlando Bermont Galvis • Gladys Nubia Hernández Gloria Carvalho Vélez • Luz del Carmen Montoya Rodríguez Luz Marina Hoyos Vivas • Mary Luz Cárdenas Fonseca María del Carmen Bernal Latorre • Milbany Vega Salinas Yaneth Cecilia Romero Gamarra • Yohana Amaya Pinzón Nutrition Directorate Ana María Ángel Correa • Ángela Patricia Guarnizo Cárdenas Cenyde Leal Rodríguez Protection Directorate Alexandra Margarita Herrera Puente • José Antonio Romero Villarreal Family Directorate Blanca Leticia Arteaga Díaz • Claudia Marcela Rangel Esparza Martha Yaneth Giraldo Alfaro DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL FAMILY WELFARE SYSTEM Constanza Liliana Gómez Romero MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION Adriana Estrada • Aldemar Parra Amanda Valdés • Ana María León Ana María Ortiz • Ana María Peñuela Poveda Ana María Rodríguez • Ana Margaret Raba Andrés Motta • Arturo Quintero Vergara Blanca Stella Patiño • Carolina Chica Zapata Carolina Delgado Torres • Catalina Borda Villegas Claudia Helena Prieto • Constanza Castilla Dayana Gómez • Diego Alejandro García Diva Jeaneth Moreno • Elsy del Pilar González Esperanza Lara • Fernando Ramírez Campos Gina Marcela Alba Díaz • Gloria Isabel Puerta Gloria Ochoa • Gonzalo Gutiérrez Isabel Cristina Idárraga V. • Javier Ricardo Bohórquez 7 EARLY CHILDHOOD COMPREHENSIVE CARE STRATEGY Jeannett Adriana Umaña • Jorge Eduardo Suárez José F. Valderrama • José Luis Ortiz Jovana Ocampo • Juan Carlos Correa Juan Manuel Rodríguez • Juan Pablo Corredor Lely Stella Guzmán • Leonardo Arregocés oenza Beatriz Ospino • Lía Marcela Guiza Luis Carlos Olarte • Luz Emilse Rincón Luz Stella Méndez • Marcela Calle Margarita García • María Elena González Martha Álvarez • Martha Patricia Ospino Martha Imelda Linero • Mery C. Bolívar Myriam Lucía Ramírez • Patricia Delgado Rodríguez Ruth Yelitza Rubio • Sandra Tovar Sara J. Torres M. • Yennifer Viviana Cano Yennifer Mariño ADMINISTR ATIVE SPORTS, R ECREATION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND ENJOYING FREE TIME DEPARTMENT – COLDEPORTES – Diana Marleny Duque Giraldo SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO Beatriz Londoño Soto Former Director of the ICBF, former Minister of Health and Social Protection, International expert on early childhood development. Colombia Diego Andrés Molano Aponte Former Director of ICBF Verónica Silva Villalobos Social Protection Consultant in Latin America and the Caribbean - World Bank INTERNATIONAL ENTITIES PROVIDING FEEDBACK FOR THE DOCUMENT World Bank Interamerican Development Bank Organization of Iberoamerican States for Education, Science and Culture Organization of American States (OAS) Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO) 8 EARLY CHILDHOOD COMPREHENSIVE CARE STRATEGY Specialists who wrote the reference studies that underpinning the present document Adriana Lucía Castro Rojas • Alberto Vélez Ángela Patricia Nocua Cubides • Blanca Luz Hoyos Henao Consuelo Angarita • Deidamia García Quintero Doris Andrea Suárez Pérez • Eliana Ramírez Elsa Castañeda Bernal • Ernesto Durán Strauch Esperanza Osorio Correa • Fadua Kattah Graciela María Fandiño Cubillos • Hellen Maldonado Pinzón Leonor Isaza Merchán • Luz María Babativa Javier Augusto Medina Parra • María Victoria Estrada María Consuelo Martín Cardinal • Marina Camargo Abello Marina Llanos • Martha Lorena Padrón Gómez Nora Corredor Martínez • Nisme Yurani Pineda Báez Paula Quintero • Sandra Marcela Durán Chiappe Yolanda Reyes Villamizar WITH THE SUPPORT OF: Camilo Ernesto Peña Porras • Jaime Rafael Vizcaíno Pulido AND RECOMMENDATIONS BY: Alejandro Acosta Ayerbe Ascofade Graciela María Fandiño Cubillos • Leonor Isaza Merchán María Cristina Torrado Pacheco • María Inés Cuadros Ferrer Marta Torrado Pacheco • Manuel Manrique Castro Olga Alicia Carbonell Blanco International Development Experts Providing Feedback for the reference studies Cassie Landers • Clyde Hertzman (R.I.P.) Jane Squires • Juan Narbona Helia Molina • Magdalena Janus Mary Young • Norma Reategui • Paula Bedregal • Sally Brinkman 9 EARLY CHILDHOOD COMPREHENSIVE CARE STRATEGY Photography Credits Adriana Lucía Castro, pages 68 and 158 Adriana Gómez (Ministry of Culture), page 80 Candelaria Martínez (Agreement 442, 2012 for Early Childhood Comprehensive Care), pages 52, 102, 203d and 222 Carolina Turriago Borrero, pages 18, 39, 43, 47, 67, 93, 98, 109, 149, 189a and 197d César Carrión (Press Office, Office of the President), pages 40, 44, 56, 134, 138 and 141 Diego Díaz (High Counseling for Special Programs. Office of the President), page 173 Luis Eduardo Díaz, page 238 Elizabeth Sánchez (Sueños Alegres Kindergarden, San Andrés), pages 105 and 121 ICBF Team, page 234 Ventana de Infancia Team, United Nations, pages 213c and 230 Presidency Team, page 83, 86, 106, 133 and 242 Ministry of Culture Team, page 182 Ministry of Health Team, pages 114, 122, 137, 177, 189b and 189d Ingrid Marcela Moreno (Agreement 442, 2012 for Early Childhood Comprehensive Care), pages 126 and 213a Juan Gabriel Muñoz (ICBF Press Office), pages 17, 21, 35, 51, 72, 75, 76, 84, 90, 113, 142, 145, 153, 161, 162, 178, 183 and 221 Laura Mercedes Hoyos (Agreement 442, 2012 for Early Childhood Comprehensive Care), pages 60, 110, 125, 164, 189c and 241 Liliana Ávila (Agreement 442, 2012 for Early Childhood Comprehensive Care), pages 36, 130 and 197c, Linda Flor Salazar (Agreement 442, 2012 for Early Childhood Comprehensive Care), pages 63, 174, 203b, 213b and 229 Luisa Fernanda Juliá (High Counseling for Special Programs. Office of the President) front cover and pages 22, 30, 59, 64, 79, 94, 97, 117, 118, 129, 137, 146, 154, 157, 166, 170, 181, 187c, 187d, 197b,
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