ÑAUPAQMAN PURIY- KEREIMBA Educational Inititaive to Eradicate Child Labor Exploitation in Bolivia

Project Components Policies, laws and regulations Urban and rural production Awareness- Raising Educational Opportunities ORGANIZATIONAL STRENGTHENING

CESO 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

CESO 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 ZONE SERVICE GROUPS CONTROL GROUPSTOTAL Guaraní Plan El Alto San Julián Total

CESO 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?

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

Baseline form

CESO DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED DIFFICULTYSOLUTION 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.