Advocacy for investment in social protection in Madagascar

As part of a new Madagascar country programme for 2021-2023, UNICEF implemented a multisectoral programme in mica mining villages in the Anosy region of the country, with the aim of reducing child labour and the negative impacts of economic exploitation on children. The programme included a universal child allowance for families, as well as an …

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Entrepreneurship and enterprise skills development

Entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been a priority area for the European Training Foundation (ETF) in recent years in recognition of their effects on economic growth, job creation and social cohesion. ECOPER has collaborated with Ockham IPS to complete the evaluation of the ETF’s work in entrepreneurship and enterprise skills development (EESD) …

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Entrepreneurship policymaking

Better designed and implemented entrepreneurship policies should result in more new businesses created, with potential long-term benefits for economic growth, employment and economic integration. Following this logic, UNCTAD has implemented the project ‘Support Developing Country Policy Makers in the Formulation of National Entrepreneurship Policies through the Implementation of Entrepreneurship Policy Frameworks’. The intervention has been …

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Following the 2030 Agenda on Twitter

ECOPER’s analysis and evaluation area is adapting artificial intelligence tools in order to gather monitoring indicators for the Sustainable Development Agenda. The aim in doing this is to determine to what extent the ideas of the 2030 Agenda permeate various public policies at the national level and how the activity of certain international actors, such …

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Presentation of the Decentralised Cooperation Report 2022

The Decentralised Cooperation Report 2022, produced by ECOPER on behalf of the Basque Agency for Development Cooperation (eLankidetza), will be presented to the public on 20 April at 11:00. The aim of this report is to publicise the cooperation carried out by regional and local governments in 11 countries and to facilitate learning and the …

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Reinforcing democratic processes in vulnerable populations

The peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC in 2012 brought with it the promise of more peaceful living conditions and new opportunities to participate in democratic processes. However, such opportunities are not evenly distributed. To help address this, Caritas implemented the project ‘Reinforcement of Democratic Processes with Gender and Differential Approaches in …

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TVET for Syrian refugees and Jordanian vulnerable youth

The provision of good quality TVET is an important tool for enhancing the career prospects of young people. The UNESCO project ‘Provision of TVET Opportunities for Syrian and Vulnerable Jordanian Youth in Jordan’ aimed to provide support in accessing TVET and ECOPER evaluators have submitted their report on the external evaluation and tracer study related …

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ECOPER mission to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

The ECOPER team travelled to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, this week to carry out face-to-face sessions with team members from OCADES, a local partner of Cáritas Española. The purpose was to enhance the documentary and financial management of a multi-sector humanitarian assistance project financed by ECHO. The sessions relied on information contained in a remote monitoring …

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Global ideas on research and higher education

ECOPER consultants and ICREA professor Diego Blas Temiñoare collaborating in a research project aiming at mapping the dissemination of global ideas on research and higher education policies throughout national institutions, with a focus on developing countries. The research is based on computerized content analysis and follows a four-phase plan. First, global ideas on research and …

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Research agreement: local culture and global citizenship

ECOPER and Nemesis Association collaborate in the monitoring of local cultural heritage in cosmopolitan or anti-cosmopolitan discourses through big data analysis techniques… Culture is and has always been a meeting place for people and groups of diverse social and geographic origin, so that the promotion of the cultural heritage of a given territory is always …

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