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GRADE’s CREER Project held its second virtual discussion on educational policies for rural areas beyond the pandemic
As part of its series of virtual conversations Contributions for dialogue and action, the project Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER) organized its second dialogue “Educational policies for rural areas: thinking beyond the pandemic”. PANELISTS Nora Delgado, general director of the Ministry of Education of Peru’s DIGEIBIRA. Verónica Villarán, coordinator of well-being for the CREER […]
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CREER Series of Dialogues: Contributions for dialogue and action. First dialogue: Multigrade Rural School: debates from practice and research
The Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru Project (CREER) presents the Serie of Dialogues: Contributions for the dialogue and action. The first webinar will address the “Multigrade rural school: debates from the practice and research”. SPEAKERS Limber Santos, director at the Departament of Education for the Rural Ambit of the Council of Initial and Primary Education of the National Administration of Public Education of Uruguay. Maribel […]
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Young Lives Peru organizes the virtual dialogue “Violence: another pandemic that threatens girls and adolescents”
On September 29, the longitudinal study Young Lives Peru will organize the virtual dialogue Violence: another pandemic that threatens girls and adolescents. PANELISTS Vanessa Rojas, coordinator of the qualitative component for Young Lives Peru. Matilde Cobeña, adjunct for childhood and adolescence at the Ombudsman’s Office of Peru. MODERADOR Santiago Cueto, country director of Young Lives Peru and executive director at GRADE. […]
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Derechos sin Fronteras, Renades Cusco and GRADE held a public forum on water governance in Andean territories with large-scale mining
Derechos sin Fronteras, the Regional Platform for Natural Resources and Sustainable Development (Renades Cusco) and the the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) held a public forum on water governance in Andean territories with large-scale mining extraction. The event discussed the findings of the international project “How to improve the availability and equity of water access? […]
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Ethos y GRADE will organize a webinar about GMOs and food security. Eduardo Zegarra will join as a discussant
GMOs have appeared since the nineties as one of the solutions to feed a growing population, to significantly increase the productivity of agriculture, to genetically redesign seeds to improve certain characteristics, ranging from nutrients, to resistance to pests and varied climates, and more. What has happened to these promises in recent decades? What have been […]
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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 […]
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Evidence Week 2019 | Agro-exporting in Peru: which products and firms survive and why?
In the last twenty years, Peru has enjoyed a remarkable agricultural export boom. We export more than US $ 3 billion of fruits and vegetables and more than US $ 6 billion if we consider all agricultural products. However, we still know very little about the characteristics of products and companies that have shown a […]
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Evidence Week 2019| Gabriela Guerrero and Santiago Cueto joined MINEDU’s event on education and early childhood
Our Senior Researchers, Gabriela Guerrero and Santiago Cueto, joined in the opening day of the Evidence Week 2019, “Education and early childhood”, held by the Ministry of Education (MINEDU). During her presentation, Gabriela addressed the relevance of ensuring quality services in two dimensions: structural quality, as key inputs for the deliver of the service; and quality of processes, linked to the way […]
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Upcoming webinar. Synergies between Education and Employment: who is being left behind and what can be done about it?
On September 27, Southern Voice, GRADE and ARU Foundation will host a webinar to discuss the synergies between education and employment. It will focus on the lessons that can be drawn from the Southern Voice’s “State of the SDGs” cases studies of Bolivia and Peru. The presentations will be addressed by Lorena Alcázar, Senior Researcher […]
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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 […]
