Centro de Investigaciónes y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
For Research On Citizen Participation For Accountability In Education
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2012
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) is a Mexican public university specializing in social anthropology. Through their Center for Social Audit, CIESAS works toward generating new evidence through applied research on how citizen participation in the policy process can improve public sector performance on service delivery. This grant would support applied research to better understand how citizen participation can improve accountability over public education in Mexico, both in terms of improving education policy and public spending, and in improving learning outcomes. Through South-South exchange with Hewlett grantees working on alternative educational assessments in India and Africa, this grant will also explore how Mexico could benefit from engaging parents and civil society organizations in measuring learning outcomes through diverse measures that go beyond standardized tests.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ciesas.edu.mx
Address
Juarez 87 Col. Tlalpan, Mexico City, 14100, Mexico
Grants to this Grantee
for the CCiudadano program
Ciudadano—formerly the Center for Social Audits (CCS)—partners with local citizen groups to improve citizen oversight of public services and government spending at the subnational level. With this grant, CCS will continue to provide technical assistance to partner organizations and apply research to better understand the pathways through which citizen oversight improves public service delivery.
for citizen-led assessments of education in Mexico
This grant will support the application and refinement of citizen-led assessments to gauge how well students are learning in five states in Mexico. It will also enable researchers to explore how assessments can encourage greater accountability of schools to improve learning outcomes in one state, for the eventual replication of these tactics in other states.
for program support to the Center for Social Audit
This grant would provide program support to the Center for Social Audit to expand work to build the capacity of Mexican organizations working to improve citizen oversight of public services and government spending at the subnational level. After an external evaluation, as well as a process to strengthen their overall organizational capacity, the Center has identified a path for institutional growth. Providing technical assistance, supported by applied research, the Center would work with smaller organizations to build stronger citizen oversight tools, with the ultimate goal of improving the impact on service delivery. The Center would also raise the profile of institutional reforms required to make public systems more accountable to citizens.
