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Subsidized childcare and working women in urban Guatemala

Subsidized childcare and working women in urban Guatemala

Resource information

Date of publication
December 2003
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
IFPRI-p15738coll2-129678
Pages
6 pages

With increasing urbanization, the percentage of women participating in the labor force and the percentage of households headed by single mothers have increased. Reliable and affordable child-care alternatives are thus becoming increasingly important in urban areas. The Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP) was established in Guatemala City in 1991 as a direct response to the increasing need of poor urban dwellers for substitute childcare. This government-sponsored pilot program was designed as a strategy to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, high-quality childcare within their community.

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