Events
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Eduardo Zegarra will be a speaker at the Elsevier’s 2019 Spatial Statistics conference
Our Senior Researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, will be a speaker at the Spatial Statistics conference: towards a spatial data science, held by Elsevier, an international publisher of books on medicine and scientific literature. The event will take place from July 10 to 13, in the Sitges, Spain. On Friday, July 12 at 9:00 a.m. (Peru time), […]
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Manuel Glave discussed the study ‘Impacts of extractive industry and infrastructure in the Amazon’
Manuel Glave, Senior Researcher at GRADE, was one of the discussants of the study “Impacts of extractive industry and infrastructure in the Amazon”, organized by Law, Environment and Natural Resources DAR Peru, the Regional Coalition for Participation and Transparency, and the Institute of Nature, Territory and Renewable Energy Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of […]
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A Young Lives study on educational trajectories of poor students of rural areas in Peru was discussed with experts
‘Children who migrate from rural to urban areas tend to have better educational outcomes over time’. Is migration the key to educational improvement? Or, should we focus on improving the educational offer in rural areas? Is it just an improvement in the educational offer or should a transversal policy be implemented? What is the role […]
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Eduardo Zegarra is a speaker at the PUCP international seminar on the 50th anniversary of the agrarian reform in Peru
On the sidelines 50 years of the enactment of the Agrarian Reform, the Ethnological Workshop on Political Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) will held the international seminar “50 years of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform: new readings and approaches”, from June 26 to 28. The aim of the event is to discuss […]
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Gabriela Guerrero discussed the findings of the National Study of the Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes MELQO initiative
Our Senior Researcher, Gabriela Guerrero, discussed the tool and the findings of the National Study of the Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes MELQO initiative. The event was held by the Ministry of Education’s Office of Monitoring and Strategic Evaluation (OSEE).
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Vanessa Rojas remarks a Plan International and UNFPA study on young adolescents in early and forced marriages and unions in Peru
“Young adolescents should not continue thinking that the beginning of sexual life should be linked to an early union, although the report mentions that in Piura many girls are robbed, others take an active part in the decision. They asked to be robbed, they did it because they wanted to avoid the social sanction before […]
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Apuesta por las CCSS: How to promote research on social sciences in Peru?
Hemos iniciado la discusión sobre la necesidad de crear un programa específico de apoyo estatal a la investigación en ciencias sociales. Hace algunos días, especialistas locales e internacionales vinculados a la ciencia y a las políticas públicas identificaron barreras y exploraron mecanismos concretos para el logro de este objetivo. El apoyo a la investigación científica en […]
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Lorena Alcazar shared Grupo Sofía’s work at the Women Deliver 2019 Global Conference
As part of the International Development Research Center (IDRC) booth at the Women Deliver 2019 Global Conference, Lorena Alcázar, Senior Researcher at GRADE, and Margarita de Sanfeliú, director of Fusades Research and Statistics Center, discussed the work of Grupo Sofía to help women break the glass ceiling in social sciences in Peru.
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ON LIVE: Upcoming seminar: The challenges of ethnic self-identification: reflections after the census
First part (from 9:15 to 11:00) Second part (from 11:25 to 13:00) Third part (from 14:45 to 18:10) Activists, researchers, professors, representatives of the government, and afrodescendant and indigenous organizations will discuss and generate recommendations to improve the gathering of census information with an ethnic ratial approach. The 2017 Population and Housing Census incorporated the variable of ethnic […]
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Investigadores de GRADE en LASA 2019, Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion
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