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Project to increase access to and improve the quality of public education in El Salvador, with an emphasis on participation and equity. The project, to be implemented by the Business Foundation of Educational Development (FEPADE), will train change agents in support of educational reform, establish an educational investigative capability, support policy dialogue, and finance buy-ins to related USAID activities. Activities in the health sector will be added to the project later. Under the first component, the project will train 2,000 teachers and educational administrators in new teaching methodologies based on past and present teaching experience, especially the Ministry of Education's (MOE's) Central American Peace Scholarship Program and experiences from other Latin American countries implementing similar reforms at the classroom level. Those trained will act as change agents, and on a national scale, will train others. Secondly, the project will create an investigative capability within FEPADE and other participating institutions enabling them to assess the impact of education programs on quality, coverage, and equity and to evaluate and guide development of national policy. A

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABM-155 (1995). The source's own text.