Participación de la Dirección de Primera Infancia ICBF en Implementación de Política de Estado de “Cero a Siempre” en el Periodo 2016-2020

Abstract

This article determines the level of participation of the Early Childhood Directorate of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute in the integral development established in the state policy "De Cero a Siempre" in the period 2016-2020 in Colombia. For this, the qualitative method is used, where documentary analysis of the annual management reports of the ICBF is carried out during the study period, and the qualitative method through the consolidation of databases of the ICBF intranet web page in where the annual Social and Financial Goals Execution Reports are published, they contain official information on the children cared for, integrating the years to be analyzed and the services through which comprehensive care was provided are classified, biasing the beneficiaries pertaining to early childhood. With the consolidated and refined base with the pertinent information for this article, the indicator is created that shows the level of participation of the direction in the integral development of the boys and girls, making the comparison of the number of children cared for by this direction, compared to the number of children from zero to five years in Colombia for each year. Based on the above, the regions with the highest comprehensive early childhood care are perceived, the modality in which the greatest attention was given to children, and the relevance of the level of participation for this population is analyzed.