📋 Tender Overview
The initiatives impact study covered the period 2023-2024, with nearly 50 thousand students from families who are users of the Midis social program.The Upper Secondary Transfer (TAS), a pilot initiative of the Together program of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis), which seeks to reduce school dropouts and promote the timely completion of secondary education among adolescents from user households, obtained positive results, according to the impact study carried out between 2023 and 2024.
This evaluation was carried out in 11 randomly selected districts in the departments of Amazonas, La Libertad, Loreto and Piura, reaching 23,992 students in 2023 and 25,552 in 2024, who were evaluated under a Differences in Differences (DE) methodology.
The results show that the passing rate increased by 1.2 percentage points, while repetition decreased by 1.3 percentage points during the evaluated period (2023-2024).
The impact was concentrated mainly on fifth-year secondary school students, men and adolescents from urban areas whose mother tongue is Spanish. Likewise, specific improvements in school attendance were observed within subgroups with lower educational levels at home.
It should be noted that the TAS, which was implemented with the technical support of Unicef, within the framework of the redesign of the Juntos del Midis program, grants a transfer of S/80 per month, in addition to the S/200 of the Base Transfer, to affiliated households that have students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade of secondary school. It is provided as an incentive to fulfill educational co-responsibilities linked to timely enrollment, regular attendance at classes, and approval of the school year.
The study was prepared by researcher Alvaro Monge Zegarra, with the technical supervision of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis), Unicef, the Juntos program and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF).
