This study describes the design and the ex-ante evaluation of an Intercultural Bilingual
Education1 Program in the Amazon Region in Peru. The target beneficiaries are the nonSpanish-speaking children from three Amazon ethnic communities: the Awarunas,
Ashaninkas and Shipibos-Conibos. They are a small minority; the poorest Peruvians with the
lowest level of performance in reading comprehension and basic mathematics, and the
lowest level of enrollment, schooling and transition rates.
The program looks to improving the quality of service delivery for this community with
bilingual curricula which would trigger the need for appropriate pedagogical bilingual
teaching methods in classrooms, with ad hoc instructional materials and teachers with the
required expertise and the capability to manage a bilingual setting and culture.
2 At the end,
the expected results from this quality improvement exercise are: an increase in enrollment,
higher schooling (average of number grades reached), and reduction in dropout and
repetition rates. The outcome of such bilingual programs, based on some international
experiences points to an improvement in learning and performance levels in children.
However, we are unable to work that variable.
Author(s): Betty Alvarado
Series: Documento de Discusión, DD/13/13
Publisher: Universidad del Pacífico (UP) - CIUP; GDN; Results for Development
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 52
City: Lima
Tags: Peru
Introduction..................................................................................................................................4
1. Background...........................................................................................................................6
2. Literature Review................................................................................................................14
Diagnoses ...................................................................................................................................14
Evidence from international cases...............................................................................................15
How much bilingualism?.............................................................................................................22
3. Policy Objective and Alternatives........................................................................................25
Alternatives.................................................................................................................................26
Components ...............................................................................................................................27
Other concurrent inputs related to school functioning ................................................................28
4. Methodology.......................................................................................................................29
Scenarios for Alternative 2 ..........................................................................................................30
Cost Effectiveness and the cost saving ........................................................................................32
Private Benefits as increase in earnings........................................................................................32
5. Calculations and results.......................................................................................................35
Cost Effectiveness ......................................................................................................................35
Private Benefits...........................................................................................................................36
6. Discussion of Results..........................................................................................................37
Decision making based on comparison of results........................................................................37
Context of possible incidence......................................................................................................39
Bibliography................................................................................................................................42
ANNEX 1. Statistics...................................................................................................................45
ANNEX 2. Internal efficiency.....................................................................................................47
ANNEX 3. Cost calculation of IBE program..............................................................................49
ANNEX 4. Benefit tables ...........................................................................................................51
