Establishing a regional network of academic centers to support decision making for new vaccine introduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: The ProVac experience

Vaccine ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. C12-C18 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.M. Toscano ◽  
B. Jauregui ◽  
C.B. Janusz ◽  
A. Sinha ◽  
A.D. Clark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Regional Network ◽  
Vaccine Introduction ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Support Decision Making

scholarly journals Embedding research into health services in Latin America and the Caribbean: experiences and challenges of the Technical Support Center

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Víctor Becerril-Montekio ◽  
Pilar Torres-Pereda ◽  
Luis Alberto García-Bello ◽  
Jacqueline Alcalde-Rabanal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Caribbean

This article describes the main models for embedding research and the successful experiences and challenges faced in joint work by researchers and decisionmakers who participated in the Embedding Research for the Sustainable Development Goals (ER-SDG) initiative, and the experience of the Technical Support Center. In June 2018, funding was granted to 13 pre-selected research projects from 11 middle- and low-income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Paraguay, and Peru). The projects focused on the system-, policy-, or program-level changes required to improve health and build on the joint work of researchers and decisionmakers, with a view to bringing together evidence production and decision-making in health systems and services. The Technical Support Center supported and guided the production of quality results useful for decision-making. This experience confirmed the value of initiatives such as ER-SDG in consolidating bridges between research on the implementation of health policies, programs, and systems, and the officials responsible for operating health-related programs, services, and interventions. It highlighted the importance of both respecting and taking advantage of each context—and the specific arrangements and patterns in the relationships between researchers and decisionmakers—through incentives for embedded research.

A Skills Taxonomy for LAC: Lessons Learned and a Roadmap for Future Users

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Altamirano ◽  
Nicole Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Level Information ◽  
The Caribbean

This note brings together lessons from the IDBs and other institutions efforts to adapt a skills taxonomy for Latin America and the Caribbean countries. These efforts have focused primarily on the ability to gather and make use of labor market information on skills demand from non-traditional data sources like online job vacancies. Most of these efforts have used the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) taxonomy to underpin the identification and classification of skills. This note is intended to be a starting point and set of considerations for policymakers who may be considering, or already embarking on, similar efforts to use ESCO or other taxonomical structures to help better analyze, understand and use skills-level information for decision making. It also seeks to motivate the need for additional classification systems that help governments take stock of its citizens skills in increasingly complex and rapidly changing labor markets.

scholarly journals SIASAR: a country-led indicator framework for monitoring the rural water and sanitation sector in Latin America and the Caribbean

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Requejo-Castro ◽  
R. Giné-Garriga ◽  
Ó. Flores-Baquero ◽  
G. Martínez ◽  
A. Rodríguez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Sustainable Services

The provision of water supply, sanitation and hygiene services has emerged as a top priority in the development agenda in Latin American and the Caribbean. In light of the investments envisaged to reach the targets set by the sustainable development goals, information systems will play a key role in improving decision-making. In this context, this article introduces a country-led and global IS, which has been increasingly implemented in numerous countries across Latin America and the Caribbean as a policy instrument to support national and local decision-making: the Rural Water and Sanitation Information System (SIASAR). SIASAR includes a comprehensive framework for data collection, analysis and dissemination that simultaneously fulfils different stakeholder needs. This article analyses these three key monitoring issues from the viewpoint of stakeholder involvement. Our results indicate that SIASAR represents a suitable monitoring framework to analyse sustainable services and the level of service delivered. Additionally, we highlighted some of the advantages of adopting a continued participatory approach in system development, including: (i) the stimulation of experience exchange and knowledge sharing between recipient countries; (ii) the promotion of learning-by-doing; and (iii) an increase of regional understanding, collaboration and comparisons.

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: progress and lessons learned

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 1295-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Helena de Oliveira ◽  
Silas Pierson Trumbo ◽  
Cuauhtémoc Ruiz Matus ◽  
N. Jennifer Sanwogou ◽  
Cristiana M. Toscano
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Conjugate Vaccine ◽  
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Vaccine Introduction ◽  
The Caribbean

IDB Behavioral Economics Group: Project Highlights of the Last Decade

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Collective Decision ◽  
Collective Decision Making ◽  
Group Project ◽  
Psychology And Economics ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
National Governments

The IDB Behavioral Economics Group is an interdepartmental working group on behavioral economics. For nearly a decade, armed with the tools and insights offered by psychology and economics, the IDB has been partnering with local and national governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to promote knowledge related to individual and collective decision-making in the region. Through this work, we hope to serve our countries better and continue improving peoples' lives.

Strengthening drought risk management and policy: UNESCO International Hydrological Programme's case studies from Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean

Water Policy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (S2) ◽  
pp. 245-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koen Verbist ◽  
Abou Amani ◽  
Anil Mishra ◽  
Blanca Jiménez Cisneros
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Drought Monitoring ◽  
Drought Risk ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa ◽  
Monitoring And Early Warning

Droughts have resulted in significant socio-economic impacts in the regions of Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), especially in developing countries. The main gaps to mitigate its effects, identified in both Africa and LAC regions, include a lack of human and institutional capacity, a lack of access to relevant early warning information for decision-making, the identification of vulnerable communities within the countries and the integration of these two components into drought management policies. UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO-IHP) has been providing support to enhance human capacity, policy guidance and tools to the countries to address drought-related challenges and this paper presents some examples. Through capacity building at regional institutions in Western, Eastern and Southern Africa, drought monitoring and early warning tools have been transferred and validated for inclusion into national climate risk management plans. In LAC, a drought atlas was produced to identify the frequency of meteorological droughts and the exposure of population to droughts. Also in LAC, national drought observatories were developed in two pilot countries, providing locally relevant and actionable drought monitoring and early warning information, socio-economic vulnerabilities and appropriate drought indicators for decision-making to strengthen current drought policies for these countries.

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