Regional programs / Latin America and the Caribbean regional project 597-0000 · 1987–1995 · Academy for Educational Development, Inc. (AED)
The critical educational and human resource needs of Latin America and the Caribbean are a challenge to the donor community. DEC abstract (PN-ABC-026)
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The one-paragraph answer: years, implementer, funder and purpose, each from document metadata.
The critical educational and human resource needs of Latin America and the Caribbean are a challenge to the donor community. This report presents an overview of the education sector portfolio of A.I.D.'s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and includes major sections on policy context, regional projects, and bilateral projects. The policy section summarizes A.I.D. policies on basic education and technical training. Also discussed are significant policy issues which have affected A.I.D.'s efforts in the region, including the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the recommendations of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America (also known as the Kissinger Commission). Information is included in this section on broad funding patterns by subsector. The second section describes two regional projects which make up half the LAC Bureau's portfolio in education and human resources development. These projects, both developed in response to the Kissinger Commission report, are the Caribbean and Latin American Scholarship Program (CLASP), the most extensive scholarship program A.I.D. has undertaken in the region; and the Regional Technical Aid Center project (RTAC), a major
Source: DEC abstract, PN-ABC-026 (1987). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.
Operated in: El Salvador, Central America, Honduras, Latin America, Caribbean, Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, South America, Peru.
Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. Source: sentences in the program's documents
Districts, regions and facilities named in the program's own documents, not verified sites. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far.
Sample Built from district names in Malawi documents while the full place data loads; it is not yet the finished place list.
Solid: the documents describe the program's work there. Faint: named in the program's documents. Bigger means more mentions. Shown: region or province, district; squares are facilities.
Showing 8 of 14 places.
Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. Source: document tags, scope rule
Scope: regional. How the scope was set is not described yet. High confidence.
How sure we are: 0.9.
When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. Source: award and document years
Axis: award years, end from years in documents. The start year comes from award fiscal year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.
Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. Source: initiative records, start year
Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. Source: award and document records
Named as an institutional author on documents; whether prime, sub or consortium member is not recorded. Basis: read from a record field
| Name | Role | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy for Educational Development, Inc. (AED) | implementer | 1988 to 1995 | Stated in a document | 14 sources |
| Juarez and Associates, Inc. | implementer | 1988 to 1989 | Stated in a document | 4 sources |
Identifiers of the awards and the organizations that funded it. Amounts are under Money. Source: award records
Basis: read from a record field
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAC-0000-C-6074 (contract, fiscal year not recorded) | 1988 to 1990 | Stated in a document | 10 sources |
| DAN-5113-Z-7031 (other, fiscal year not recorded) | 1990 to 1995 | Stated in a document | 6 sources |
Labels on the program's documents, not a description of what the program did. Source: DEC document tags
Sector profile (computed): Basic education (early childhood, primary, secondary, literacy, teachers) 29%; Maternal and child health 22%; Economic opportunity (microenterprise, jobs, skills, poverty reduction) 13%
DEC topic and subject tags. They describe the documents, not what the program was. Each tag opens its evidence in the drawer.
Programs worth reading next, by topic, implementer, country and years. Similar by facets (topic, implementer, country, years) and, when available, description. It says the programs look alike, not how they are related in time. Source: catalog facets
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Studies that assessed this program, and the lessons taken from them. Source: linked evaluation documents
| Title | Year | Document | Why listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation of Sani Radio | 1990 | PN-ABF-612 | evaluation-stage document (eval midterm, weak classifier) |
| Evaluation of El Agricultor : a study of its educational and informational impact | 1990 | PN-ABZ-259 | evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier) |
Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.
Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. Source: document library
| International Science and Technology Institute, Inc. (ISTI) | implementer | 1988 | Stated in a document | 3 sources |
| Anita F. Allen Associates, Inc. | implementer | 1988 | Stated in a document | 3 sources |
| Creative Associates International, Inc. (CAII) | implementer | 1990 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| Development Technologies, Inc. (DevTech) | implementer | 1989 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
None recorded. Evaluation studies linked to this program are listed under Evaluations and lessons.
None recorded for this program. A counterpart appears only when a document names the government body and its role.
| 1988 |
| Stated in a document |
| 3 sources |
| 597-0000-3-76-5304-10 (award, fiscal year not recorded) | 1990 to 1991 | Stated in a document | 2 sources |
| PDC-1109-I-7119 (idiq, fiscal year not recorded) | 1990 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| 597-0000-3-76-53041-00 (award, fiscal year not recorded) | 1990 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
Basis: read from a record field
Basis: read from a record field
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central America Regional | 1987 to 1991 | Stated in a document | 11 sources |
| El Salvador | 1988 to 1989 | Stated in a document | 7 sources |
| Honduras | 1990 | Stated in a document | 2 sources |
| Peru | 1995 | Stated in a document | 1 source |