ÑAUPAQMAN PURIY- KEREIMBA

Educational Inititaive to Eradicate Child Labor Exploitation in Bolivia

Project Components

Policies, laws and

regulationsUrban and

rural production

Awareness-Raising

Educational Opportunities

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OBJECTIVE

Evaluate the after-school, leveling and productive services on:

- Eradicating child labor- Improvement in the communicational, social and creative skills of the children. USEFULNESS

- Improve the educational services- Share the results with the indigenous organizations that we work with- Inform the state and influence public policies- Produce quantitative information for awareness-raising activities

METHODOLOGY

It is a STUDY of a determined sample. It works in a complementary way to the Monitoring System, which covers all Project children.

EVALUATION OF IMPACT

• THE STRATEGY: Offer recreational activities, play and academic reinforcement in regular schools

• HOW IT WORKED: In three regular schools, for three hours, four days a week, with a trained tutor.

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM

OBJECTIVES: Occupy free time, reinforce communication and social skills

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OBJECTIVE

-To evaluate changes by comparing a group receiving the services with another that does not.

REQUIREMENTS

-The groups to be compared must have identical characteristics in terms of work status, age and social environment. - The control groups and the groups receiving the service are selected randomly

CONTROL GROUPS METHOD

ZONESERVICE GROUPS

CONTROL GROUPS TOTAL

Guaraní 103 98 201

Plan 3000 124 124 248El Alto 140 120 260San Julián 74 88 162Total 436 435 871

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DESIGN OF THE STUDY FRAMEWORK

-Definition of the evaluation methodology: control groups.-Definition of the services to be evaluated. -Determination of the sample based on the number of beneficiaries. -Design of the baseline form and the child labor, pedagogical and perception monitoring forms.

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STUDY

-Creation of the beneficiary and control groups: informational meetings with parents and authorities, and random selection process. -Formation of the team of interviewers, training-Surveys conducted using the baseline form in homes and schools. -Data processing

NEXT STEPS-Distribution of compensatory inputs to control group children-Surveys using monitoring forms-Processing and dissemination of the information: parents, organizations and public sector entities-Impact evaluations of other services

HOW WAS IT DONE?

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BASELINE INSTRUMENT

-Basic data on the child- Academic data- Description of the family- Information on working hours and risks- Information on perceptions

Baseline form

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DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED

DIFFICULTY SOLUTION

The method requires identifying working children with nearly identical characteristics. The selection of some of them to receive the service and others only to be studies, generated resistence among some parents. When the services began, some of them wanted to move their children into the beneficiary groups.

The compensatory educational input and the public random selection minimized the problem. The Project team helped to resolve conflicts during the interviews.

The study was done by a team which at first did not know the local areas, the target group and the agreements reached with the beneficiaries, and thus required greater coordination.

The strategies and instruments were designed together with the Foundation team.