Events
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Lorena Alcazar was a panelist at Gender Matters: COVID-19 and the labour market in the Global South Webinar
As with other pandemics in recent history, women are particularly vulnerable. COVID-19 has further aggravated structural inequalities that systematically disadvantage women, specifically in the economic system. Economically, women are disproportionately impacted by the financial effects of the pandemic as the majority work in low-paid or informal jobs with few social protections. Around the globe, 740 […]
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Ricardo Fort and Alvaro Espinoza will present “Markets and food centers. Territorial approach in pandemic cities” in Quarantined Cities online session
The food markets are, and will continue to be for a time, the main points of agglomeration in the city. As such, they are also potential foci of COVID-19 transmission. Understanding how these institutions work, what their limitations and capacities are, is essential to devise and implement measures that make this network of microcentralities that […]
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Miguel Jaramillo was a panelist at the fourth CADEx “New work framework in health emergency”
IPAE held the fourth CADEx “A new labor framework on the sidelines of a health emergency”. Our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, was a panelist together with Juan Carlos Requejo, vice-Minister of Labor at the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion, and Diego Macera, general general at the Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE).
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Lorena Alcázar and Miguel Jaramillo joined the First Meeting Think Tanks and COVID-19 in Latin America
Researchers and other thinktankers joined yesterday the First Meeting Think Tanks & COVID-19 in Latin America. The event was held by Southern Voice and On Think Tanks. Our senior researchers Lorena Alcázar and Miguel Jaramillo were discussants in the parallel sessions on social and economic issues. The purpose of the meeting was to exchange diagnoses and policy recommendations that may […]
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How to improve availability and equity in water access? Project: Researchers from Peru, Colombia, Chile and Argentina meet at GRADE
From January 6 to 8, 2020, researchers from Peru, Colombia, Chile and Argentina meet at GRADE to join the third workshop of the “How to improve availability and equity in water access? Recommendations to improve water governance in Andean territories with mining extraction to large scale” Project. During the activity, the researchers share academic articles […]
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Martín Valdivia is a speaker at the 1st Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network
Our Senior Researcher, Martín Valdivia, is a speaker at the 1st Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network, on December 12th and 13th in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme of the conference is inclusion. Organizers want to understand who benefits from investments in private enterprises and what can be done better, the characteristics of inclusive firms, […]
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Manuel Glave joined the French-Peruvian Scientific Forum “New perspectives on climate change in the Amazon”
Our Senior Researcher, Manuel Glave, joined the French-Peruvian Scientific Forum “New perspectives on climate change in the Amazon”, held by the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (Concytec), the University of the Pacífico, the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD), and the French Embassy in Peru together with the French Institute of Andean […]
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GRADE researchers join the presentation of the results of the SPSD pilot project “Valuing diversity in schools”
The Peruvian Society for Down Syndrome presents the results of its pilot project, “Valuing diversity in school”. The project aimed to strengthen the capacities of the different actors of the educational community in relation to their policies, practices and inclusive culture. The active participation of managers, support staff, teachers, students and families of two public […]
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Ricardo Fort presented innovative tools for local territorial governance at the IADB
Our Senior Researcher, Ricardo Fort, met with officials of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to discuss the findings of four GRADE research projects that yielded innovative tools for local territorial governance: a mobile application for automated lottery plans, a virtual cadastre with drone images, and an investment prioritization tool based on satellite images.
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2030 Agenda: Promoting Global South research within international debates
On Tuesday, November 26, the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) and Southern Voice will discuss the challenges and opportunities to strengthen the participation of public policy experts and researchers from the Global South in international development debates. Southern Voice is a network of more than 50 think tanks from countries in Africa, Latin […]
