Events
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La Noche de las Ideas: Eduardo Zegarra joins a film discussion on the paradox of hunger and small-scale agriculture
Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, will participate in the film discussion Feeding Consciousness: the paradox of hunger and small-scale agriculture in a globalized world, organized by the French Embassy in Peru, the French Institute, the Alliance Française in Peru and Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans Frontières. During this session, the short film “The Paradox of […]
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Investigadores de GRADE serán expositores y comentaristas en el VIII Seminario Nacional de Investigación Educativa SIEP 2023
Del 18 al 20 de mayo, investigadoras e investigadores de GRADE serán expositores, comentaristas y moderadores en el VIII Seminario Nacional 2023 de la Sociedad de Investigación Educativa Peruana, a celebrarse en la ciudad de Ica. En esta edición, el seminario bienal abordará el tema: “Educar en tiempos de crisis y emergencia: el desafío de mejorar los aprendizajes y […]
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Lorena Alcázar presented the situation of social programs and the fight against post-pandemic poverty at a CIES event
“Between 2021 and 2022, rural poverty returns to its pre-pandemic levels, but urban poverty remains quite high. We need to be clear about these differences for any future strategy or discussion”. On April 13, our Senior Researcher Lorena Alcázar presented a balance of the State’s actions in the face of poverty and the situation of social programs before and during the […]
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Alvaro Espinoza joined roundtables on the disaster crisis
At this time, when it is so important to understand the underlying reasons for the disaster crisis, our Adjunct Researcher, Alvaro Espinoza joined two roundtables to tackle the problems and, above all, the solutions for this topic. On March 27th, he was part of the technical roundtable Access to Social Housing: Solutions to informality, held by Congresswoman Flor Pablo. […]
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Vanessa Rojas was a panelist at UNICEF Peru’s Dialogues “Towards the construction of a Social Protection System in Peru”
“In Peru, we are still moving from a medical approach to a biopsychosocial one. We still see disability from its individual limitations and do not consider the issue of limits in the social environment, which are key when we talk about social protection in general”. Vanessa Rojas, Associated Researcher at GRADE, joined the UNICEF Peru’s Dialogues “Towards the construction […]
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Eduardo Zegarra will be a speaker at the Regional Governors’ Summit: Sustainable Food Systems to Achieve Zero Hunger
Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra will join the Regional Governors’ Summit: Sustainable food systems to achieve zero hunger, in the city of Cusco. The in-person event, organized by the Regional Government of Cusco, brings together national experts and experts from different international agencies of the United Nations to discuss issues related to the Food Security System in […]
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Alan Sánchez will join the Centre for the Study of African Economies CSAE Conference 2023
Our Senior Research and Principal Researcher at Young Lives Peru Alan Sanchez will join the University of Oxford Centre for the Study of African Economies CSAE Conference 2023. The event brings together colleagues from across the development economics community to discuss Africa. On Tuesday, March 21, as part of the Health and Education 11 session, […]
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Ricardo Fort joins a IDB forum on decentralization and fiscal management in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ricardo Fort, Senior Researcher at GRADE, joins the 5th International Forum of the Inter-American Development Bank’s Network on Decentralization and Subnational Fiscal Management in Latin America and the Caribbean. The event, held in Brasilia, promotes dialogue for the generation of a possible agenda on decentralization and subnational fiscal management for Latin America and the Caribbean, with […]
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Young Lives Peru will share the advaces of its Study of Obesity, Nutrition, Genes and Social factors (SONGS)
Obesity is a rapidly growing public health issue worldwide. However, evidence of the relationship between the progression of obesity and the development of non-communicable diseases in Peru is limited. The Young Lives Longitudinal Study will present the advaces of its Study of Obesity, Nutrition, Genes and Social factors (SONGS), which aims to introduce new empirical […]
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Lorena Alcázar participates in various Southern Voice activities on the occasion of the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Our Senior Researcher Lorena Alcazar is in New York attending various Southern Voice activities, a think tank network of which GRADE is a partner. As a member of the Southern Voice’s Steering Committee, Lorena joined its first face-to-face meeting since 2019 to discuss the work of the network in the next couple of years. Also, on the occasion of the […]
