ITS STRATEGY

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Through its proposal, the PIINFA strives to prioritize a series of aspects which allow to the following:

-                     To preserve the region's own identity as regards children's issues;
-                     To democratize access to and use of information; and
-                     To promote the horizontal transfer of experiences. 

Knowledge is always determined by the environment on which it develops. The fact that the majority of the economies of the region are developing countries and with cultures that although having similar roots, they have their own singularities, obliged to develop an own knowledge about children's issues. If knowledge is not ours, specially on the social field, it's not efficient. Social policies that do not make decisions on the basis of knowledge, are on the long term inefficient. Here relies the importance of detecting the existence of own knowledge, promoting and supporting the construction of more knowledge. 

The fact that PIINFA is a regional tool and that its proposal deals with different spheres of children issues (legal, statistic, documental, etc.) enables the elaboration of a regional knowledge which enhance the constitution of knowledge and performs on each reality, particularly on those countries from the region that do not count with human, institutional and economic resources which allows them to elaborate their own knowledge and their own childhood policies. Doing so, we gain a regional capability to produce investigations, analysis and generation of knowledge that can be useful for the different actors related to child issues, both on the public and private spheres. The development of regional knowledge will favour national development and will stimulate local development. For this to occur it is vital to establish communicational mechanisms, creating informal and formal networks for them.  

The inputs that allow to build regional knowledge are given through the results of investigations, statistics, legal and documental information, among others. Information is inaccessible in some cases, is lost in others, that is why, a key element is the ability of gathering, organization and dissemination that they might implement, trying to settle bidirectional communicational channels that ensure the permanent retroalimentation between regional knowledge and the social environment. Each local and national sphere must "feel part of the regional knowledge and have the capacity to rebuild it to the light of its own reality".          

To approach the different issues part of childhood knowledge, it is important to establish  regional priorities to the effect of focusing the action on key information issues. To promote the knowledge to make decisions we will develop art conditions, training conditions and determine the profile of the ones involved. We attempt to establish paths that allow to connect knowledge with specific problems, databases, users and information makers. Bridges between researchers, decision-makers and childhood agents have to be built. Similar to the way that the "capacity" to recollect information is built, we have to set up a system to disseminate it and have an impact on those that can promote changes. 

Among this process of information, PIINFA promotes the insertion of information intermediaries, persons or/and institutions that work as mediators between knowledge and problems, entitling also the systematize knowledge to be supplied with the reality with which they interact. The Program promotes the incorporation, the systematization of communication so that the process of information is separate from a mechanic posture and taken to the real world.  

The information that is transfer is never the same to the one that we receive, because the receptor reads it according to its own political, cultural and social context. That is why mediation is a basic element  to settle a syntony between knowledge and the context with which it interacts. The development of formal and informal networks formed by organizations and people contribute to penetrate deeply on knowledge, so the promotion of construction of these networks is investment on demand.  In this way, a communication culture between different agents who for children is built.        

Civil Society and State, researchers and planners, children and adults, are actors with which knowledge has to interact. If databases, networks, information centers and all the actors involved on the process of information do not turn out to be tools to stimulate the process of communication, finally objectives will not be reached. It is important to introduce to this process the concept that information is a good  subjected to laws of supply and demand, and that for its management there has to be a constant impact analysis, elaboration of strategies to deal with each of the stages involved on the information process and permanent evaluation.  

ANNEX

MEETING OF FIRST LADIES OF CENTRAL AMERICA, 
PANAMA AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC