{"id":6663,"date":"2025-11-27T17:24:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/?p=6663"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:10:07","slug":"project-against-academic-dropout-measured-the-impact-of-community-intervention-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/project-against-academic-dropout-measured-the-impact-of-community-intervention-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic analyzes the impact of community intervention against school dropouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The academic from the School of Economics and Business Administration<\/a><\/strong>, Isabela Mun\u00e9var<\/strong><\/a>, leads several research projects that seek to provide concrete evidence to design more equitable and effective educational policies in the region. One of her most important projects<\/strong> (El Mercurio<\/a><\/strong>) is the evaluation of the program \"Centipede\"<\/a><\/strong>program. The initiative organizes caravans of children who walk together to school accompanied by responsible adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work combines administrative data with interviews with local stakeholders.<\/strong><\/a>The results are convincing: two years after its implementation, the program reduced by 7.7 percentage points the probability of children changing schools and by 10.6 points the probability of droping out, which is equivalent to reductions of more than 45% with respect to the initial rates. Improvements were also observed in grade repetition and dropout rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ciempi\u00e9s is a simple, community-based intervention, but with the potential to impact complex problems, such as dropout and child safety. In addition, it can alleviate the burden of care that falls on parents, particularly mothers, freeing up time for work or educational activities,\" explains Mun\u00e9var. This project is supported by the Secretariat of Education of Bogot\u00e1, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and Harvard University (United States).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the researcher is developing a study on school financing in Chile, financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).<\/strong><\/a>The report analyzes how public resources are allocated and used in schools and what type of spending - on teachers' salaries, infrastructure, or pedagogical support - generates the greatest returns in terms of learning and equity. \"It's not just about how much is invested in education, but how it is spent and what are the real effects on educational quality are,\" she says. She adds that her interest in this topic has motivated her to understand how conditions outside the classroom affect educational trajectories. \"Safety on the way to school or the way school resources are distributed can make the difference between staying in the system or dropping out,\" <\/strong>she details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the research on school financing in Chile, Mun\u00e9var works together with Julio Rodr\u00edguez (University of Oxford, England) and with specialists from the IDB<\/a>.<\/strong> And in the case of the Ciempi\u00e9s program, she collaborates with Rafael Hern\u00e1ndez (Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland) and Oscar D\u00edaz (Paris School of Economics, France).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to these projects, Mun\u00e9var has researched the role of Catholic schools in Chile in social mobility and is also participating in a comprehensive diagnosis of the Colombian educational system <\/strong>together with Asim Khwaja, director of the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School (United States). \"The idea is that this project will serve as a starting point for the development of several additional projects that will help to address the country's educational challenges,\" she concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Isabela Mun\u00e9var, a researcher at the School of Economics and Business Administration, analyzes the impact of the \"walking school bus\" system developed in Bogot\u00e1 (Colombia) and also the use of public resources in Chilean education.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,4],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-6663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economia","category-investigacion","category-pensamiento","tag-68"],"yoast_head":"\nAcad\u00e9mica analiza el impacto de intervenci\u00f3n comunitaria contra la deserci\u00f3n escolar - Investiga UANDES<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/project-against-academic-dropout-measured-the-impact-of-community-intervention-in-colombia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Acad\u00e9mica analiza el impacto de intervenci\u00f3n comunitaria contra la deserci\u00f3n escolar - Investiga UANDES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Isabela Mun\u00e9var, investigadora de la Facultad de Ciencias Econ\u00f3micas y Empresariales, analiza el impacto del sistema \u201cbuses escolares a pie\u201d que se desarrolla en Bogot\u00e1 (Colombia) y tambi\u00e9n el uso de recursos p\u00fablicos en la educaci\u00f3n chilena.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/project-against-academic-dropout-measured-the-impact-of-community-intervention-in-colombia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Investiga UANDES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-27T20:24:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-20T15:10:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Isabela-Munevar-02-Portal-UANDES.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Marisol Grisanti\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Marisol Grisanti\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Marisol Grisanti\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#\/schema\/person\/a6d3757d4cdc75cceb38c3560655edc3\"},\"headline\":\"Acad\u00e9mica analiza el impacto de intervenci\u00f3n comunitaria contra la deserci\u00f3n escolar\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-27T20:24:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-20T15:10:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/\"},\"wordCount\":532,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Isabela-Munevar-02-Portal-UANDES.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"214\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Econom\u00eda\",\"Investigaci\u00f3n\",\"Pensamiento y Sociedad\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/\",\"name\":\"Acad\u00e9mica analiza el impacto de intervenci\u00f3n comunitaria contra la deserci\u00f3n escolar - Investiga UANDES\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Isabela-Munevar-02-Portal-UANDES.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-27T20:24:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-20T15:10:07+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Isabela-Munevar-02-Portal-UANDES.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Isabela-Munevar-02-Portal-UANDES.webp\",\"width\":1800,\"height\":1200},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Portada\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Acad\u00e9mica analiza el impacto de intervenci\u00f3n comunitaria contra la deserci\u00f3n escolar\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/\",\"name\":\"Investiga UANDES\",\"description\":\"Investigaci\u00f3n, Universidad de los Andes\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Investiga UANDES\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/investiga_uandes.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/investiga_uandes.jpg\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":771,\"caption\":\"Investiga UANDES\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#\/schema\/person\/a6d3757d4cdc75cceb38c3560655edc3\",\"name\":\"Marisol Grisanti\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/author\/mgrisanti\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Acad\u00e9mica analiza el impacto de intervenci\u00f3n comunitaria contra la deserci\u00f3n escolar - Investiga UANDES","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/project-against-academic-dropout-measured-the-impact-of-community-intervention-in-colombia\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Acad\u00e9mica analiza el impacto de intervenci\u00f3n comunitaria contra la deserci\u00f3n escolar - Investiga UANDES","og_description":"Isabela Mun\u00e9var, investigadora de la Facultad de Ciencias Econ\u00f3micas y Empresariales, analiza el impacto del sistema \u201cbuses escolares a pie\u201d que se desarrolla en Bogot\u00e1 (Colombia) y tambi\u00e9n el uso de recursos p\u00fablicos en la educaci\u00f3n chilena.","og_url":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/project-against-academic-dropout-measured-the-impact-of-community-intervention-in-colombia\/","og_site_name":"Investiga UANDES","article_published_time":"2025-11-27T20:24:34+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-01-20T15:10:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1800,"height":1200,"url":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Isabela-Munevar-02-Portal-UANDES.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Marisol Grisanti","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Marisol Grisanti","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/"},"author":{"name":"Marisol Grisanti","@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#\/schema\/person\/a6d3757d4cdc75cceb38c3560655edc3"},"headline":"Acad\u00e9mica analiza el impacto de intervenci\u00f3n comunitaria contra la deserci\u00f3n escolar","datePublished":"2025-11-27T20:24:34+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-20T15:10:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/"},"wordCount":532,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Isabela-Munevar-02-Portal-UANDES.webp","keywords":["214"],"articleSection":["Econom\u00eda","Investigaci\u00f3n","Pensamiento y Sociedad"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/","url":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/","name":"Acad\u00e9mica analiza el impacto de intervenci\u00f3n comunitaria contra la deserci\u00f3n escolar - Investiga UANDES","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Isabela-Munevar-02-Portal-UANDES.webp","datePublished":"2025-11-27T20:24:34+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-20T15:10:07+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Isabela-Munevar-02-Portal-UANDES.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Isabela-Munevar-02-Portal-UANDES.webp","width":1800,"height":1200},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/proyecto-contra-la-desercion-escolar-academica-midio-el-impacto-de-intervencion-comunitaria-en-colombia\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Portada","item":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Acad\u00e9mica analiza el impacto de intervenci\u00f3n comunitaria contra la deserci\u00f3n escolar"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#website","url":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/","name":"Investiga UANDES","description":"Investigaci\u00f3n, Universidad de los Andes","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#organization","name":"Investiga UANDES","url":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/investiga_uandes.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/investiga_uandes.jpg","width":2000,"height":771,"caption":"Investiga UANDES"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/#\/schema\/person\/a6d3757d4cdc75cceb38c3560655edc3","name":"Marisol Grisanti","url":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/author\/mgrisanti\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6663"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7179,"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6663\/revisions\/7179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investiga.uandes.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}