GRADE

Projects, alliances and interinstitutional networks

GRADE researchers actively collaborate with other institutions-people and projects, networks and alliances to undertake studies that promote development.

• Young Lives Peru

  The Young Lives study follows the lives of around 12,000 children in Peru, Ethiopia, India and Vietnam (approximately 3,000 children in each country) with the aim of identifying the causes and consequences of child poverty and making public policy recommendations. The organizations in charge of the project in Peru are GRADE and the Nutrition Research Institute (IIN).

  

• Southern Voice

  Southern Voice contributes to a global dialogue on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Is aim is to stimulate, generate, disseminate and promote high-quality evidence-based analysis on the SDGs, empowering Think Tanks from the Global South. GRADE is one of the 50 institutions from Latin America, Africa and Asia. Since 2019, GRADE is host organisation for Southern Voice.

  

• PEP

  The Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) brings together researchers from developing countries and provides financial and scientific support for the development of research projects that contribute to poverty reduction. The coordination office of PEP in Latin America is at GRADE, and seeks to develop specific training, research and dissemination activities for researchers in the region.The Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) brings together researchers from developing countries and provides financial and scientific support for the development of research projects that contribute to poverty reduction. The coordination office of PEP in Latin America is at GRADE, and seeks to develop specific training, research and dissemination activities for researchers in the region.

  

• Global Alliance for Care

  The Global Alliance for Care is the first global multi-stakeholder community that facilitates and fosters spaces for dialogue, analysis, exchange of experiences and learning about care, its recognition as a need, as work, and as a right. GRADE is member since May 2024.

  

• EGAP

  Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners which is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of governance, politics, and institutions. EGAP members are committed to understanding the politics of global development, advance evidence-based policy making, and improve the quality of empirical research in the social sciences. Results from research are shared with policy makers and development agencies through regular policy fora, biannual meetings, and policy briefs.

  

• Nopoor

  The Nopoor project adopts a comprehensive approach to poverty, covering all its facets, processes and dynamics. It seeks to provide politicians with new analyzes and a better understanding of the areas in which they can make a difference. It aims to develop comparative studies focusing on the conditions for successful poverty reduction policies in selected countries and how to relate them to other countries by actively disseminating research results at national and international level. GRADE is one of the 19 project partners from 17 countries around the world.

  

• ReAL

  The Latin American Anti–corruption Network ReAL is an international network composed of eight think tanks in the region that aims to generate knowledge, design policies and carry out advocacy actions for the adoption of public policies to combat corruption, both in its national and international manifestations. GRADE is one of the members.

  

• Siep

  The Peruvian Society for Educational Research, known by its acronym “the SIEP” is a project that aims to promote, disseminate and generate educational research capabilities in the country. Through biennial seminars and the publication of a journal, they encourage the discussion and meeting of perspectives on the educational phenomenon from different academic specialties.

  

• SEPIA

  SEPIA is a non-profit civil association that promotes research and decentralized debate on rural, agrarian and environmental issues from a multidisciplinary and plural perspective. SEPIA constitutes a gateway to the academic community and informed debate for young professionals interested in rural issues.

  

• CIES

  The Consortium for Economic and Social Research (CIES) is an association dedicated to research and teaching in economic, environmental and social sciences. It also seeks to contribute to the development of Peru, raising the level of national debate on key issues. It also seeks to strengthen the Peruvian academic community to produce and disseminate useful knowledge for analysts and decision makers in the public sector, civil society, the media, private enterprise and international cooperation.

  

• ILAIPP

  The Latin American Initiative of Research for Public Policy (ILAIPP) seeks to generate a space for collaboration between knowledge-creating organizations in order to create, establish, and devise innovative proposals from and for Latin America. Its main inspiration stems from the need for Latin American societies to achieve true sustainable economic, social, political and institutional development.