Rio's City Government launched this Tuesday the Municipal Integrated Policy for Early Childhood (PMIPIC), which aims to place children up to 6 years old at the center of decisions across different areas of the municipal administration. The decree creates a new governance structure, under the responsibility of the Municipal Civil House, and integrates around 18 agencies around actions in health, education, social assistance, housing, food, mobility, and the right to the city.
The experience began being tested in April, in 14 neighborhoods in the Madureira region, in the North Zone, where monitoring of 6,627 children and pregnant women led, in 30 days, to the regularization of 619 people who had some pending issue with public services.
The Pequenos Cariocas program, which will now conduct the new policy, will use data cross-referencing to identify children who are outside the public service network. The idea is for different agencies to share information to locate and serve children who need interventions in areas such as health, education, and social assistance.
