Statusrapport
Pedagogical Improvement Project (2010-2014) Mid-term external Evaluation 2010-2011, Bolivia
From 2001-2010, ICEL implemented “School project, Cochabamba” in District 5, Tiquipaya, Bolivia with the support from Norad/NLM. This project involved the construction of an educational complex and also the development of socio-pedagogical actions aimed at providing opportunities and optimal conditions in terms of infrastructure and equipment to students from low-income and poor families in the community and district. It also aimed at substantially reducing the high rates of school dropout and failure rates and to improve the quality of education in the population. These objectives were roughly met in the set time, though, as a result of it, there were still several challenges, especially when you consider that the school population increased significantly and the legal, political and socio-educational context of the country changed substantially. In order to take on the major challenges discovered by this former project, ICEL is implementing in 2010 - 2014, the Pedagogical Improvement Project that will cover virtually all the educational Sub-District "Toribio Claure", located in District 5 in Tiquipaya. The actions of the project are aimed towards a strictly pedagogical and institutional component of regular and special alternative education. The evaluation intended to assess the thematic and geographic coverage of the project and its results and socio educational difficulties so far. It also intended to look at perceptions of the various actors of the educational community and the challenges, which after two years of implementation, still remain to be met. To receive recommendations for the remaining project period was therefore a main purpose of the evaluation.