The Effective Combination of Macro- and Microstudies in Assessing National Training Programs

Abstract

The Indigenous Women's Program in Mexico provides education and training to women of 56 different ethnic groups through 265 centers located in 23 states of Mexico. The Centers, known as CECMI (Centers for the Education and Training of Indigenous Women) are staffed by 540 young, indigenous women with roughly the equivalent of a junior high school education. The assessment of the program provided here was intended both to aid official funding policymakers and to describe how the staff, known as promoters, learned by participating in the evaluation.