Mexico’s Center for Research and Economic Instruction (CIDE), through its Division of Legal Studies Program for the Reform of Legal Teaching, is at the vanguard of design and implementation of social reform. ESE:O supported the online implementation of its Research Seminar in the CIDE Administration and Public Policy Master‘s degree program (August-December 2005)...read more
The Ford Foundation partnered with ESE:O and Asian, African and Latin American academics committed to teaching in the fields of sexualities and gender and including these in university curricula. This consisted of evaluating the institutional capacity of universities to conduct academic research, teaching and the production of knowledge in the sexualities fields with gender perspectives from the context of the global South...read more
This program was designed for selected IFP scholarship recipients in order to prepare them for postgraduate studies of academic excellence in Chile and abroad...read more
The project was based on a collaborative writing methodology developed by ESE:O, which coordinated and motivated group processes of planning and writing through the systematization of conversations and interchanges occurring online...read more
ESE:O and the Monterrey (Mexico) Institute for Technology and Graduate Studies (TEC Monterrey) worked together to create an innovative Diploma program to train instructors in the development of reading skills based on international PISA exam guidelines and “Literacy for Life” approach, as promoted by the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD)...read more
ESE:O provided strategic consultation to Mexico’s Ministry of Education for its PISA 2009 Evaluation campaign and training manuals used by teachers and students...read more
In collaboration with the Diego Portales University Law School and Chilean Bar Association, ESE:O developed a course to coach lawyers working in English to improve their legal writing skills...read more
This ESE:O writing workshop was developed in the context of the National Survey on Political Culture and Good Citizenship (ENCUP) Summer Course “Introduction to Quantitative Analysis in Social Sciences.” The main topic was analysis of the Interior Ministry 2009 National Survey on Political Culture and Good Citizenship. The Ministry presented a statistical analysis of civic-political values, practices and interests of Mexicans, including their perception of the political system...read more
This project was launched in November 2006 to create a collective and permanent space of contact between poets and universities — a multimedia, trans-generational and socially-integrated space that would include the political dimensions of Mapuche poetry written by women...read more
The main goal of this project is the development of an online capacity building methodology to validate the experiences and achievements of activists to impact local and international academia and policy makers. The project also aims to evaluate this methodology and test its replicability...read more

Ford Foundation Peer Review Project
The aim of the Peer Review Project is to promote publication of academic research from the global South in international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of gender and sexuality, human and sexual rights, and reproductive health. The program was implemented with Ford Foundation support in conjunction with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the University of KwaZulu Natal (UZKN); both in South Africa...read more