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The strength of Children of the Millennium lies in the project team’s knowledge, experience, abilities and diversity. Children of the Millennium has recruited experts on childhood poverty from a broad range of professions and disciplines, including anthropology, communication, economics, education, statistics, computer engineering, pediatrics, psychology and sociology.
The quantitative and qualitative research is directed by a lead researcher in each area who supervises the field work and database management, as well as the production of publications. The researchers work closely with the communications director, who is responsible for establishing strategies to provide information gathered by Children of the Millennium to teachers and researchers outside the project, as well as civil society and public officials who design and implement policies on children’s issues. |
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Javier Escobal, Principal Investigator Young Lives (Peru)
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Mary Penny, Co-principal investigator Niños del Milenio
She has an MA in Natural Sciences from Girton College, Cambridge University, and a medical degree from the University of Birmingham Medical School After seven years working in the NHS in the UK, in 1984 she was awarded a Welcome Trust Clinical research scholarship and went to Peru to investigate childhood diarrhea. She stayed on in Peru and is currently Senior Investigator and General Director at the Instituto de Investigación Nutricional (IIN). She is also visiting scientist in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard University.
Her main research interests are in the area of infant and child nutrition, health and vaccines. Specific interests include: treatment, dietary management and prevention of infectious diarrhea; evaluation of nutrition interventions (complementary feeding, improved complementary foods, health service interventions in nutrition); micronutrient deficiency, especially zinc; community clinical trials including industry sponsored vaccine trials; and management of severe malnutrition. She has experience in longitudinal studies in the community including long term follow up.
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Cueto S., Guerrero G., León J., Da Silva M., Huttly S., Penny M.E., Lanata C.F., Villar E. (2005) Social capital and education outcomes in urban and rural Peru. Working Paper Young Lives Proyect; Nº 28. Disponible en:
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Escobal J., Suárez P., Huttly S., Lanata C.F., Penny M.E., Villar E. (2005) Does having a newborn child affect income diversification opportunities?. Evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives study. Working Paper Young Lives Proyect; Nº 24. Disponible en:
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Escobal J., Saavedra J., Suárez P., Huttley S., Penny M.E., Lanata C.F., Villar E. (2005) The interaction of public assets, private assets and community characteristics and its effect on early childhood height-for-age in Peru. Working Paper Young Lives Proyect; Nº 14. Disponible en:
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Patricia Ames, Lead Qualitative Researcher Niños del Milenio
Patricia Ames is an anthropologist with a PhD. degree in Anthropology of Education at the University of London. Currently she is researcher at IEP and lecturer at university Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her research has focused on rural education, addressing issues of power, gender inequalities, ethnicity and multigrade teaching in rural areas, as well as topics related with childhood and socialization, and literacy as social practice. In 2006 Patricia Ames was visiting professor at the Summer Institute in Language, Culture and Teaching in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University, Canada.
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Ames. P. (2006) “A multigrade approach to literacy in the Amazon, Peru: the school and community perspectives”. In: Little, A. (ed). Education for all and multigrade teaching. Springer, Dordrecht. |
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Ames, P. (2005) “When access is not enough: the educational exclusion of rural girls in Peru”. In: Unterhalter, E. y S. Aikman (eds) Beyond access: Transforming policy and practice for Gender Equality in Education. OXFAM, Oxford. |
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Santiago Cueto, Country Coordinator
He has a Ph. D. in Educational Psychology from Indiana University. He got his B.A. in psychology and his degree in educational psychology at the university Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).
He has been a visiting researcher at the University of California at Davis. Currently he is Senior Researcher at GRADE, Executive Secretary of PREAL’s Latin American Educational Research Fund, and professor at the PUCP. His research has been mostly on education and children’s development. In 2003, at the Global Development Network (GDN) annual conference, Dr. Cueto was awarded with the medal for best research in Education, Knowledge and Technology.
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Balarin, María; Cueto, Santiago (2008). La calidad de la participación de los padres en la educación de los padres de familia y el rendimiento estudiantil en las escuelas públicas peruanas. GRADE/ Niños del Milenio. Documento de Trabajo Nº 35 (Traducción al español de: The quality of parental participation and student achievement in peruvian government schools. Oxford: Young Lives. Working paper, Nº 35). Available at:
www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml
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Balarin, María; Cueto, Santiago. (2007) The quality of parental participation and student achievement in peruvian government schools. Oxford: Young Lives. Working paper, Nº 35. Available at:
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Cueto, S.,Guerrero, G., Leon, J, de Silva, M., Huttly, S., Penny, M. E., Lanata, C. F., Villar, E. (2005).Social capital and education outcomes in urban and rural Peru. Working Paper Nº. 28. Young Lives. An International Study of Childhood Poverty. London. Available at:
www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml
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Carmen Ponce, Consultant
Holds a BA in Economics by the university Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and an MSc in Economics by the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of interest are Poverty and Equity; Rural Economy and Development; and Employment and Labor Markets. Before joining GRADE, she worked as Project Assistant at the Country Office of the Inter American Development Bank, monitoring development programs oriented to strengthen the income generating capacities of poor households. She has taught at the Universidad del Pacífico and the Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, and teaching assistant at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Carlos Jáuregui, Communications Assistant
Carlos Jáuregui Portilla holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication for Development at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). He has participated in a student exchange program at Communications Faculty of the Spaniard university Universidad de Málaga (UMA). Before joining Young Lives, he worked as Communications Assistant for a year in a UNDP - Peru project calls Rímac Renace.
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Claudia Sugimaru, Research Assistant
Research assistant at GRADE. Holds a degree in psychology with a concentration in education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
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Gabriela Guerrero, Adjunct Researcher
She got her B.A. and license in educational psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru (PUCP). In 2005 she got a Master's Degree in Development Studies with Specialization in Public Policy and Management at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. She is currently working as an Adjunct Researcher in the Education Area at GRADE. She also teaches in the Psychology Department at the PUCP a course in evaluation of educational programs. Her main areas of interest are early childhood and primary education, inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, and monitoring and evaluation of social programs.
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Ismael Muñoz, Research Assistant
Holds a Bachelor`s degree in economics from Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú. He works as a research assistant in the Area of Education.
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Juan León, Assistant Researcher
Holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has worked as assistant researcher in GRADE’s education area and is currently pursuing a doctorate in education at Pennsylvania State University.
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Mónica Lizama, Database Administrator
Holds a statistics and computer engineering degree, with experience in database management using SPSS and SAS. She has supervised database cleanup and information processing for various national surveys conducted by the National Institute of Statistics. She joined the Children of the Millennium team in 2003 and has been responsible for coding, review and cleanup of information.
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Vanessa Rojas, Assistant Researcher, Qualitative Component
Holds a Master’s degree in political science and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her work has focused on the anthropology of education.
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Virginia Rey-Sánchez, Assistant Policy and Communications Coordinator
As a journalist, worked for local and international media from 1986 until December 2006. Has worked for El Comercio and the magazines Somos, Caretas, Semana Económica and Perú Económico, as well as other publications.
She was Lima correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires for six years, and served as publications manager for Macroconsult.
Holds a degree in social communications from the University of Lima and a diploma in economic and financial affairs from ESAN. She also holds a diploma from Syracuse University, where she studied on a Hubert Humphrey Fellowship.
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Sofía Madrid, Instructor, Coordinator and National Supervisor
A registered nurse and graduate of the Anglo-American Clinic School of Nursing, she holds a bachelor’s degree from Sagrado Corazón Women’s University and studied hospital administration, management and supervision at San Martín de Porres University. She joined the Nutrition Research Institute (IIN) in 1971, where she received training in pediatric nursing. She has served as director of clinical nursing, instructor and supervisor of the pediatric nurse training program, and instructor in the IIN Education Department.
Since 1982, she has worked as instructor, coordinator and national supervisor for several research projects and intervention programs in Lima and other regions of the country. She has extensive experience in screening, training and evaluation of personnel; planning, organization and implementation of field operations; and gathering of basic data (socioeconomic, cultural, anthropometric, etc.), as well as information for monitoring and evaluation.
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Margot Marín, Statistical Analyst
Holds a degree in statistics and computer science from La Molina National Agricultural University, where she is currently completing a Master’s degree in applied statistics. She has worked at the Nutritional Research Institute (Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, IIN) since 1987, serving as statistical analyst for various research projects. Her focus has been on applied analysis of nutrition, human health, human behavioral psychology and the evaluation of educational methodologies, in coordination with multidisciplinary teams.
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Beatriz Oré, Consultant
Holds a Master’s degree in anthropology and a licentiate in psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where she is a professor. She has worked in the Ministry of Education’s rural education program (PEAR), preparing educational materials and providing assessments and psychotherapy for children and teenagers. She has worked in various IIN projects since 1998, most recently doing studies to develop assessments for children. She has also provided brief psychotherapy and counseling for women and conducted parenting workshops.
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Silvana Vargas, Consultant
Holds a doctorate in rural sociology and demography from Pennsylvania State University and a degree in sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She has more than 10 years of experience in applied research, facilitating inter-learning processes and conducting field work in rural communities, both nationally and internationally. She also has significant expertise in the design, implementation and analysis of quantitative and qualitative interdisciplinary research, as well as in baseline studies and program monitoring and evaluation.
She has worked in various sectors, including international technical cooperation, the public sector, non-governmental organizations, grassroots organizations, universities and research centers. She is currently director of the Institute for Rural Livelihoods at La Molina National Agricultural University, where she is also a visiting professor. Her areas of academic interest include rural development, research methods, intercultural communication, education, natural resource management, child labor and social demography.
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