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The Children of the Millennium research project received an honorable mention on April 10, 2008 in the Regional Award for Innovation in Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the World Bank. The bank said the seven honorable mentions were granted to "programs that are characterized for their noteworthy level of innovation."
Statistical programs from Mexico, Colombia and Brazil won the three first places for their "pioneer work" according to the World Bank. In this sense, the honorable mention obtained by the Children of the Millennium project - carried out in Peru by two private institutions: GRADE and IIN - is laudable give that it was competing with statistical programs carried out by national statistical offices or ministries.
The Children of the Millennium project, under the category Survey, was one of 32 statistical programs selected from the region of a total of 151 that applied for the award. The award itself was created to recognize useful programs and statistical activities for the design, implementation and evaluation of priority public policies in the categories of Censuses, Surveys and Administrative Record.
Washington. April 10, 2008. Eva Flores from the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) received an Honorable Mention diploma to the project "Niños del Milenio/Young Lives" in the first Regional Award for Innovation in Statistics organized by World Bank.
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Niños del Milenio co-Researcher Mary Penny presented her research using posters: Families access to animal source food: an analysis of Niños del Milenio in the annual meeting Experimental Biology, in San Diego, California, U.S. (April, 5-9, 2008). The briefs will be published in FASEB's journal: www.faseb.org
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Niños del Milenio Communications Director and Senior co-Researcher, Santiago Cueto presented "Individual, family and school factors that predict sense of belonging in first grade of secondary schools in Peru" at the Annual Conference N.52 Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) Conference at Columbia University's Teacher's College at New York, U.S. (March 17-21, 2008). See the conference website at: www.tc.edu/its/cies
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Fifty international professionals from the Children of the Millennium (Young Lives) research project met in Hanoi, Vietnam between the end of February and the first week of March 2008 to exchange ideas about the preliminary results of the second round of interviews with children from the sample and to plan future actions for the study.
Researchers and specialists from diverse social disciplines and the four countries that form part of the study met in the Vietnamese capital to debate the strengths and weaknesses of Young Lives in the short and mid term, together with researchers from the United Kingdom who coordinate the work. Among the most important upcoming activities that must be organized is the third round of interviews that must be carried out in each of the countries in the study between 2009 and 2010.
International professionals from the Children of the Millennium (Young Lives) project met in Hanoi, Vietnam around the end of February and early March 2008 to discuss about the preliminary results of the second round of interviews with children, families and community representatives.
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Carmen Ponce presented "Trade Liberalization and Child Welfare: Assessing the Impact of a Free Trade Agreement between Peru and the United States" in: International Poverty Symposium held in Turkey between February 1 - 3.(www.yoksulluk.org/en/default.asp) on the research jointly undertaken with Javier Escobal.
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Javier Escobal wrote a policy brief for a public/policy consultation coordinated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The consultation was focused on poverty and hunger.
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