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GRADE Informa 25
Welcome! GRADE, The Nature Conservancy and Wildlife Conservation Society presented findings from more than two years of research and interagency meetings on infrastructure planning in Peru. Using qualitative data from Young Lives Peru, we published a study that gathered the voices of two vulnerable young Peruvian women who faced mental health challenges during the pandemic. […]
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GRADE Informa 24: Subjective well-being and mental health
Welcome! We discussed a qualitative Young Lives Peru study that gathered the voices of vulnerable young women about their well-being and mental health in a post-confinement and pandemic context. We announce a collaboration agreement between the Wyss Academy for Nature and GRADE, which aims to boost research in Madre de Dios. We presented the initial […]
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GRADE Informa 23
Welcome! We publish two new titles related to our area of work Natural Resources and Extractive Industries. The first systematizes a project that implemented a community forest managment in the Peruvian Amazon. The second explores initiatives for socio-institutional change promoted by citizen movements in mining territories in Peru, Colombia and Chile. Both titles are available […]
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GRADE Informa 22
We share two calls. The first is an announcement of the last days to apply to the second edition of our Care Economy Public Policy Innovations Collaborative Action-Research Fund Latin America and the Caribbean. The second call is the first multilateral fund Región Plateada, an initiative that seeks to transform the quality of life of thousands […]
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GRADE Informa 21: Educational technology in the Global South
We discuss the challenges and opportunities of educational technology or Ed-tech in schools in low- and medium-income countries. The latest episode of our podcast GRADE Conversa brings together Santiago Cueto, María Balarin and Mauricio Saavedra and is available on Spotify and Ivoox. We share two announcements. The first is the call for papers for the 9th […]
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GRADE Informa 20: Fundamental cognitive skills
Three researchers from the Young Lives longitudinal study explore the association between cognitive skills and educational outcomes in adolescence and youth, early nutrition, and climate variations. We produced an infographic that captures the stages of a project that identified and analyzed transitions to sustainability in mining territories in Colombia, Chile and Peru. We also include our latest […]
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GRADE Informa 19: Planning sustainable infrastructure
We talked with Manuel Glave and Karla Vergara about the contributions of a recent project to the new National Sustainable Infrastructure Plan for Competitiveness. We share two research calls. The first is the thesis contest of the Peruvian Society for Educational Research. The second one is the fifth edition of the Ministry of Development and […]
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GRADE Informa 18: Recovering learning in post-pandemia
Santiago Cueto and Claudia Sugimaru talk about two experiences from GRADE to accelerate the recovery of learning in post-pandemic: Conecta Ideas Peru and the project Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER). Last days to register for our online course Teacher training in research methodology. We have opened registration for the new edition of […]
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GRADE Informa 17: JUNTOS and the foundational cognitive skills
We spoke with our Senior Researcher Alan Sánchez about a recent Young Lives Peru research that explores the relationship between a child’s age at entry into the Juntos program and the development of a set of foundational cognitive skills. Registration is now open for our online course Teacher Training in Research Methodology and we announce the late […]
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GRADE Informa 16: The education market in Peru
In the new episode of GRADE Conversa podcast, our researchers María Balarin and María Fernanda Rodríguez dismantle the functioning of the private education market in the country, regarding the debate on the impact of the educational voucher system and the results of the Student Sample Survey 2022. There are still a few days left to […]
