Alejandro Acosta
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, South America
E-mail: aacosta@cinde.org.co.
Economist, Sociologist, Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation, Educational Doctor.
Regional Director of Bogotá Office, International Center for Education and Human Development, CINDE. Professor at Manizales University as Director of Research Group on Children and Youth Public Policies of the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences, Children and Youth, Manizales University and CINDE. Member of the Executive Board of the Consultative Group on Early Childhood, Care and Development and member of its Working Group, FINANCES, COSTS AND MOVILIZATION ON ECCD. National Representative, World Forum for Colombia, member of its International Organizing Committee and member of the Working Group RECONCILIATION THROUGH ECCD. Coordinator of the Technical Secretariat of the Consultative Group Network for ECCD in Latin America. Member of the “Group on Economics and Children” of Colombia. Member of the Coordinator Committee of the COLOMBIAN ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN
Advisor for institutions in several Latinamerican countries and for UNICEF, Interamerican Development Bank, Organization of Iberoamerican States, OIS, UNESCO, World Bank, INTRAC, Save The Children/UK, Organization of American States, OAS (Regional Programme for Basic Education, PRODEBAS); Advisor for governments and NGOs (México, Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay). Evaluating children and/or educational programmes (Honduras, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia and Dominican Republic); and presenting papers on congress, conferences and workshops in several Latin American countries and international meetings.
Author of several papers, books chapters, modules and other materials related to children, education, public policies and social development.
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