Ecuador programs / Ecuador award AID/LA-699 · 1972–1975 · University of Massachusetts at Amherst
<span style="text-align: left; text-transform: none; background-color: #eeeeee; text-indent: 0px; display: inline !important; font: 12px Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; float: none; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">This document summarizes the experiences and results of four years (1972-1975) of work in nonformal education in Ecuador. The project grew out of informal discussions in 1970 between several members of the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts and a group of Ecuadoreans and Americans in the USAID mission in Quito. These discussions led to the realization that both groups were dissatisfied with the focus on the formal educational system as the major vehicle for human development. The project is a series of subprojects linked together by a common staff and a corresponding similarity of basic philosophy concerning goals, staffing, and processes. Throughout the project are two general programmatic thrusts: creating and testing an approach to working with village facilitators, and adapting materials and methods to be used by the adult education staff of t
Source: DEC abstract, PN-AAD-626 (1975). The source's own text.
Operated in: Ecuador.
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| Name | Role | Years | Basis | Evidence |
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| University of Massachusetts at Amherst | implementer | 1972 to 1975 | Stated in a document | 24 sources |
| University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Center for International Education | implementer | 1975 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
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Operated in Ecuador, 1972 to 1975 3 sources
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| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
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| 1972 to 1975 |
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| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
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| U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) | 1975 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
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| Ecuador | 1972 to 1975 | Stated in a document | 3 sources |
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Program key awd:AID/LA-699
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