Peru currently hosts the second largest Venezuelan community in Latin America, with over a million registered migrants and refugees as of August 2020. This report discusses the challenges local governments in Peru faced, when addressing the Venezuelan immigration and their integration in four Peruvian cities, Cusco, Lima, Trujillo and Tumbes, during the period from August 2019 until February 2020.
Evidence from different countries around the world shows huge variations in academic performance between immigrant and native students across countries, regardless of socioeconomic background and country of origin. These variations suggest that policy can play an important role in addressing imbalances. A school system can respond to immigration in ways that have a tremendous influence on the economic and social development of its recipient communities.
Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest migratory amnesty program offered to undocumented migrants in a developing country in modern history. The program granted regular migratory status and work permits to nearly half a million undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia in August 2018.
We examine the role of Venezuelan forced migration on the propagation of 15 infectious dis-eases in Colombia. For this purpose, we use rich municipal-monthly panel data. We exploit the fact that municipalities closer to the main migration entry points have a disproportionate ex-posure to infected migrants when the cumulative migration flows increase. We find that higher refugee inflows are associated with increments in the incidence of vaccine-preventable dis-eases, such as chickenpox and tuberculosis, as well as sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS and syphilis.
“Extraño ponerme el uniforme y pelotear con mis amigos durante el recreo. No sé cómo será el regreso a la escuela, mis maestros están hablando de tener protocolos de bioseguridad y mi abuela preocupada de que me contagie. Hoy por primera vez después de un año volví a mi centro educativo. Nos han invitado a recibir artículos para nuestra protección que nos permitirán regresar a clases. Lo que más quiero es volver a ver a mis compañeros porque es mi último año, no me gustaría graduarme sin compartir con ellos nuevamente¨, nos dijo Carlos, joven estudiante de El Salvador.
Ecuador case study summary website "Panorama of Aging and Long-term Care".
Ecuador case study summary website "Panorama of Aging and Long-term Care".
Social skills are essential to building empowered and cohesive communities in ethnic diversity. In a world with massive population movements and growing anti-immigrant sentiments, schools stand out as important platforms to instill key social skills into our children to build inter-ethnic cohesion. Achieving this requires the implementation of rigorously tested educational actions.
This document compares three versions of the same home visiting model, the well-known Jamaica model, which was gradually scaled-up from an efficacy trial (proof of concept) in Jamaica, to a pilot in Colombia, to an at-scale program in Peru. It first describes the design, implementation and impacts of these three programs. Then, it analyzes the threats to scalability in each of these experiences and discusses how they could have affected program outcomes, with a focus on three of the elements of the economic model of scaling in Al-Ubaydli, et al.
Modelo guía de Términos de Referencia para la contratación de un consultor con el objetivo de brindar apoyo técnico para desarrollar una propuesta de estructura organizacional que permita al Ministerio/ Secretaría de Educación realizar todas las funciones necesarias para proveer educación a distancia y realizar innovaciones tecnológicas (pedagógicas y de gestión) en el marco de un proceso de transformación digital.