Projects
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Design of cognitive tests for the impact evaluation of Qali Warma
Technical assistance will be provided to the Follow-up and Evaluation Office (DGSYE) in the development of instruments to measure short-term memory and attention in school-age children (primary) within the framework of the impact evaluation of the National School Nutrition Program Qali Warma.
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Social cost-benefit analysis of interconnection alternatives between Pucallpa (Ucayali and Cruzeiro do Sul (Acre)
Infrastructure development in the Amazon region, specifically, the construction or improvement of roads and/or railways, represents a dilemma in decision-making and governance at local, regional and national level. On the one hand, infrastructure is a potential instrument for the exploitation of natural resources and local and regional development and, on the other, it generates a […]
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Strengthening of the Education Sector Management in Peru
The project seeks to contribute towards the improvement of school learning results among Peruvian children, in particular, children from the most vulnerable groups of its population, responding to a set of challenges largely persisting in the sector management. The project activities will strengthen the capacities of the Ministry of Education (MED) governing body of the […]
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Measuring education quality in Peruvian schools
The education offer of the network of Innova schools will be analyzed through a series of studies to evaluate its quality and achievements as compared with other private and public schools serving the same population segments. To achieve this, a comparison will be carried out between performance in public and private schools using the Census-based […]
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Young Lives Study (continuation)
This year, emphasis will be placed on the management of the fourth round of household surveys in addition to the preparation for the fourth round of qualitative data gathering and the preparation of Research Documents.
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PRIDI: data gathering and preparation of reports on Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru
The Regional Project on Child Development Indicators (PRIDI) seeks to evaluate the levels of cognitive, language, motor and socio-emotional development in children 24 to 59 months old in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru. During the past two years, work done covered the development of the conceptual framework and the administration tools and manuals. The […]
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Preparation of technical foundations and tools for the analysis of factors associated to child development
The Early Years Education Bureau (DEI) of the Ministry of Education will evaluate the quality of the service in early years education in order to have a baseline with child indicators. Along this line, the DEI has requested GRADE technical assistance to design questionnaires on associated factors that may gather data regarding students and their […]
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OLPC: development of tool for follow-up of students
The goal of this new stage of the project is to develop tools that would be used in the follow-up of the students who received laptops under the OLPC program in 2009.
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Preparation of proposal and tools for the analysis of factors associated to student performance
As part of the 2013 National Evaluation, the Ministry will apply a series of questionnaires to teachers, principals, students and parents of public and private school, to contribute to explaining performance differences. The purpose is to review the foundations framework and the tools, with which the data regarding associated factors will be gathered.
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Analysis of incidence of potential fiscal reforms
The State has the capacity to alter the distribution of income through the fiscal policy tools. Accordingly, a question that arises is, How does the State’s action affect this distribution? How progressive are taxes in the country? Are the social programs able to affect this distribution significantly? This study addresses these questions through an analysis […]
