Projects
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Evaluación a Profundidad de la Transferencia de Programas Sociales a Gobiernos Locales
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Seguimiento del Uso de Recursos Públicos de Programas Sociales en el Periodo Pre-Electoral 2005-2006
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Revision of the General Law of Services of Water and Sanitation
Revision of the General Law of Services of Water and Sanitation The objective of the study is to review the institutional frame of the water and sanitation sector and to propose the necessary reforms to improve the performance of the Water and Sanitation Public Enterprises and to ensure their political autonomy.
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2006 PREAL Working Group on Standards and Evaluation
This grant will support the continuing work of the PREAL Working Group on Standards and Evaluation. In the next 9 months, the group will: hold at least four web and e-mail-based discussions on working group publications; help publish four books, three working papers reporting the results of the group’s studies, and three PREAL bulletins or […]
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A new scheme of agricultural water tariffs
GRADE will prepare a proposal to make some adjustments to the current scheme of agricultural water tariffs in order to improve efficiency and sustainable management of water. Main problems of the current system will be identified and best options for reform will be proposed.
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Developing and validating a map of asignment of competitions and functions of the Social Development and Women Issues Sector
The objective of the study is to develop and validate a map of asignment of competitions and functions of the Social Development and Women Issues Sector to the different levels of government (central government, regional government and municipalities). The validation will be done in dialogue with representatives of the Ministry and of the regional and […]
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Measuring trust in poor communities
The goal of this study is to measure trust and social networks in poor communities. It has two main objectives: (i) design a credit product that reaches people that normally do not have many credit options, and (ii) better understand how social networks and trust function in poor communities to help design social programs that […]
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Gender opportunities and constraints to integrating information and communication technologies in micro and small enterprises
The goal of this project is to study, under a gender perspective, the opportunities and constraints that handcraft and agriculture MSEs face to deploy ICTs as tools to gain markets. The specific goals are: – to describe gender-based differences regarding the employment in handcraft and agriculture MSEs. – to identify opportunities and constraints to increase […]
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Supporting researcher’s participation at academic conferences and studies on education
This grant will utilize remaining funds from the Prague Education Research Conference to cover the administrative cost necessary to fund researchers’ participation at international academic conferences.
