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Niños del Milenio/Young Lives study on children transition to first grade was discussed in GRADE with key stakeholders
The project Niños del Milenio presented and discussed with key stakeholders from public and private sectors and researchers it’s Working Paper 47: Starting school: Who is prepared? Young Lives Research on Children’s Transition to First Grade in Peru. The qualitative study by Patricia Ames, Vanessa Rojas y Tamia Portugal was carried out in four communities in Peru that represent different socioeconomic and cultural contexts. The workshop took place in GRADE auditorium, on July 21, 2009, and among the participants were the General Director of Regular Basic Education, Miriam Ponce, as well as the Directors of Initial Education and Primary Education, Emma Aguirre and Jorge Cobian, respectively. The Director of Children and Adolescents at the Ministry of Woman and Social Development, Maria del Carmen Santiago, and the National Director at Wawa Wasi program, Amparo Muguruza also participated in the activity.
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The debate was around how trained are teachers at public schools and the schools themselves to facilitate the transition of children to first grade; the perspectives of parents regarding transition, and how children experience that transition. The research shows also how children live other transitions in their homes and communities at the same time that their enrolling in the school. The document can be downloaded from:
http://www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml
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Niños del Milenio/Young Lives study on JUNTOS was analyzed in GRADE with high-level officials at the program and researchers
The project Niños del Milenio presented and discussed with key stakeholders from public and private sectors as well as researchers the study: The social public spending and children: Analysis of JUNTOS program and the services supply associated to its conditionalities, by Lorena Alcazar. This study was carried out in two communities in Peru, one where JUNTOS beneficiaries live and other where there aren’t any beneficiaries. The workshop took place in GRADE auditorium on July 20, 2009, and was attended by the National Director of JUNTOS program, Milagro Nuñez, and the president of the JUNTOS Supervision and Vigilance Committee, Monsignor Luis Bambaren, among other public officials, consultants and researchers.
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The paper discussion was around the analysis of JUNTOS spending quality as well as the services quality (schools and health centers) linked with the conditionalities. The conditionalities must be complied by the program for the mother’s beneficiaries of the economic transference. A new aspect of the study is that it has been done from the perspective of the main sectors responsible to provide these services (Ministries of Education and Health).
The study will be published soon in the Niños del Milenio web: www.ninosdelmilenio.org
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The Round 2 Children of the Millennium Peru Report published (Javier Escobal, Patricia Ames, Santiago Cueto, Mary Penny and Eva Flores)
This report presents some of the information from the surveys administered between 2006 and 2007. The summary of the report, the key findings and the complete report can be read in English clicking the following link:
http://www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones.shtml.
Our investigation confirms that between the Rounds 1 –data collected in 2002– and 2, some improvements have been achieved in the well being of families, especially in urban areas, probably due to an increase in social expenses. However, inequalities persist or have increased in different aspects, such as poverty, access to basic public services, and the opportunities and access to education and health care, especially between the rural and urban families and also between indigenous and Spanish speaking children. The country report has information about diverse indicators, such as the evolution of chronic malnutrition in children of urban and rural areas, poverty levels and access to public and private services, education (including results of achievement tests administered individually), child labor and children's perception about their own well being.
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The data base containing the responses to the questionnaires in the Second Round of the Young Lives study is available in the Economic and Social Data Service, ESDS of the United Kingdom. The information corresponds to surveys taken in 2006 and 2007 with parents and caregivers as well as with children from the younger cohort (aged 5 when the Survey was done) and the older cohort (age 12 at the time of the Survey).
If you are interested in accessing the information, please follow the
indications in our Young Lives web site in the section “Study Components,”, under “The research project”
(http://www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/que_hacemos_componentes.shtml) These
steps will take you to a section in the ESDS archive containing the questionnaires and basic documents from the Young Lives study:
(http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5307)
In order to access the responses to the questionnaires, you must obtain a user name and a password following a simple procedure and
then use them in the same section of the ESDS archive site.
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The themes included in the questionnaires include information about the parents and their education, how they earn a living as well as the goods in the home. The consumption of food and other products as well
as spending levels, social capital, economic changes and recent life history, child care, education and activities, the use of their time, social networks, social skills and community support, feelings and
attitudes, issues related to the parents, the homes, the children’s development, their perception about the future as well as the health of the environment and the home. It also includes results from
cognitive and performance tests.
The data bases from Round 1 (with information from 2002) are also available in the ESDS site and can be accessed using the same instructions as indicated for Round 2.
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A study by the Young Lives project “Opportunities and Risks in the Transfer of the Wawa Wasi Program to Provincial Municipalities” was presented by its authors, Gabriela Guerrero y Claudia Sugimaru, both GRADE investigators. The study was discussed by professionals from the public and private sector on February 17 in the GRADE auditorium. The government-funded Wawa Wasi program provides free integral attention to children aged 6 to 48 months, in particular those at risk.
Government officials who participated in the workshop included the Executive Director of the Wawa Wasi Program Amparo Muguruza, Ministry of Economy and Finances Consultant Luis Cordero and a representative from the Decentralization Secretariat, a dependency of the Prime Minister’s office, Wilfredo Solis. Researchers from other entities, officials from multilateral organizations and non government organizations also attended the event.
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| Lima. February 17, 2009. Children of the Millenium’s study "Opportunities and Risks in the Transfer of the Wawa Wasi Program to Provincial Municipalities" was presented by its authors, Gabriela Guerrero y Claudia Sugimaru, both GRADE researchers. The study was discussed by professionals from the public and private sectors. |
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The study analyzed the possibilities and the challenges raised by the planned transfer of the Wawa Wasi program to provincial municipalities. It addressed the transfer of the Wawa Wasi program in the context of the decentralization process currently underway in the country and the sector the service comes under (Ministry of Women and Social Development). The authors gathered the opinion of officials from the central and local governments, as well as professionals from the technical team and personnel from the communities that work in the Wawa Wasi program
The study suggests that in order to take advantage of the benefits stemming from the transfer, detailed and opportune information must be provided to all involved stakeholders, the management skills of the municipalities that will receive the responsibility of the Wawa Wasi must be developed, there is a need for a system to monitor the transfer and care must be taken to ensure that the implementation of the program and the equity of the service itself is not put at risk during the process, among other proposals.
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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."
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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