Evaluating and Expanding Primary Education Opportunities in Nicaragua
Client
Project Alianza
Faculty
Kathleen Apltauer
Team
Mery Arcila, Julia Einhorn, Carlos Sosa Lombardo
| Project Alianza (Alianza) is a development project that forms community alliances to build schools and provide educational opportunities for children on private coffee plantations. In Nicaragua, almost a half million school-aged children are not enrolled in school due to poverty and lack of access to schools in the remote, rural areas where they live. An estimated 320,000 children are illegally involved in child labor. Alianza gathers crucial resources to create safe, quality primary schools and to encourage students to stay in school rather than work in the coffee fields with their families. Alianza enlisted a Capstone team to develop strategic recommendations for program evaluation and expansion. The team visited Nicaragua and conducted on-site interviews and observations to understand the organization and its needs better. Through the analysis of their fieldwork, the team crafted an organizational logic model, evaluation toolkit, and long-term strategic recommendations for Alianza to evaluate and expand their operations. |
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