Young Lives – Central
| Areas | : | Poverty and equality |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher/s in charge | : | Javier Escobal |
| Execution time | : | April 2008 - June 2009 |
Presentation
The Project is an ensuing stage of the study that GRADE is conducting since 2002. It studies the route of two children cohorts. The first one consists of around 2,000 children who were 6 to 17 months old in 2002. The second one consists of around 750 children who were 7.5 to 8.5 years old in 2002. The research work is performed through surveys and interviews to children in the sample, their parents and spokespeople of their communities. A second round of questionnaires was applied in 2006 and 2007 to the same children interviewed in 2002 and a third round will be carried out in 2009.
The study has a research component that includes quantitative and qualitative methods, analysis and monitoring of policies favoring children and communications and incidence in policy-making.
The Young Lives Project, internationally known as Young Lives, is a study that covers Peru and three other developing countries – Ethiopia, India (in the state of Andhra Pradesh) and Viet Nam – to produce new and reliable information that may lead to understanding causes, correlations and consequences of poverty during childhood, as well as to analyze how policies affect children’s well-being. The project intends to offer that information to the States and the civil society to foster the design and implementation of public policies and practices that may contribute towards reducing child poverty.
