Autoría: en coordinación con Gaia Pacha. ¿Cómo podría una gran organización, como Save the Children, dar un paso adelante y ayudar a amplificar movimientos juveniles liderados por agentes de cambio? Ante esta pregunta surge en el 2019 la estrategia SHIFT que permite a niños, niñas y adolescentes protagonizar sus propias campañas comunicacionales para generar cambios […]
Bolivia está experimentando un cambio demográfico notable. Con una población de 11.365.333 habitantes (Censo 2024), el 27% son jóvenes entre 18 y 28 años, lo que representa un incremento de más de 650.000 jóvenes desde el 2012, incidiendo directamente en la fuerza laboral. Aunque la tasa de desempleo general en Bolivia es baja (alrededor del […]
El 35% de la población boliviana se encuentra en el rango de edad de 10 a 28 años. Es decir, más de un tercio del país está conformado por adolescentes y jóvenes. Este dato, revelado por el Censo de Población y Vivienda 2024, confirma que Bolivia ha ingresado plenamente en el bono demográfico: una etapa […]
Thanks to collective efforts and community-based work, we are celebrating historic milestones: Law 1010 on disaster risk management, Law 1146 to prevent adolescent pregnancy, Ministerial Resolution 001/2024 guaranteeing school enrollment for migrant children, and the GAIE initiative in Chuquisaca, which has supported over 17,000 cases of school-based violence. But none of this would have been […]
In Cochabamba, significant progress has been made toward institutionalizing the School for Families, a service designed to promote protective parenting, prevent violence against children and adolescents, and strengthen emotional well-being among parents, caregivers, and communities. Advocacy efforts led by Save the Children have played a pivotal role in consolidating this innovative model, which now benefits […]
The department of Chuquisaca, Bolivia, has taken a groundbreaking step by enacting Departmental Law No. 597/2025, which institutionalizes the Gabinetes de Atención Integral para Estudiantes (GAIE) — Comprehensive Student Support Centers. This law responds to an urgent issue: the rising number of violence cases within schools. Between 2022 and 2024, more than 17,000 cases of […]
The numbers are staggering. Between 2014 and 2023, Bolivia registered 4,804 marriages involving adolescents aged 16 and 17—many with partners two or three times their age. The Ombudsman’s Office has documented cases of girls as young as 12 and adolescents between 13 and 15 being married under deeply concerning circumstances. As far back as 2012, […]
In Latin America and the Caribbean, migrant children face serious challenges. Record numbers of children and adolescents are on the move, driven by family reunification, the search for better economic opportunities, or the need to escape violence. According to projections from the R4V Platform (Southern Cone), by 2025 more than 48,000 migrants—including Venezuelans, Colombians, Ecuadorians, […]
In 2023, a total of 4,571 adolescent pregnancies were registered in the department of Cochabamba, making it one of the leading risk factors for maternal mortality, school dropout, child labor, and early and forced child marriages and unions. In response to this serious issue, in December 2023, the Autonomous Departmental Government of Cochabamba enacted Departmental […]
Bolivia is exposed to multiple hazards, including heavy rains, earthquakes, landslides, frosts, hailstorms, and forest fires. These hazards also affect the Department of Cochabamba, made up of 47 municipalities and one Indigenous Original Peasant Territory. These events lead to forced migration, family separation, and the loss of livelihoods—such as livestock, agriculture, and floriculture—threatening the survival […]
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