Seidda Mendoza

Honduras Reading Activity-Proyecto Lectores a Líderes- A five- year USAID- funded activity to assist in improving early grade Reading skills of approximately 700,000 Honduran students in 2,500 schools from first to sixth grade in four urban municipalities under DO1 and six western departments under DO2. The activity aims at increasing students’ ability to read and write at grade level, raising teacher effectiveness in the classroom, strengthening student assessment at the school level, increasing the quality, availability, and use of reading materials; and strengthening school management. The activity will provide technical assistance to the MOE to update the national reading curriculum, deliver quality early-grade programs, and assess student reading progress. It will review reading teaching and learning materials design a package of supplementary reading materials and create school libraries, train teachers in effective classroom practices. It will support parental participation in improving learning and monitoring of education activities at the school level. The activity will address cross-cutting issues on gender equity/inclusivity, gender-based violence, and public-private partnerships to support reading..

Funded by USAID-CARSI implemented by Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). November 2015- to April 2017. Responsible for compliance with the agreement signed between USAID and EDC, through strategic analysis and execution to obtain results through processes and quality standards in a framework. Advising and coordinating the work team. Directly responsible for the technical, operational, administrative, and financial implementation of the Project, executing activities aimed at young people at social risk who do not work or study, young people in a vocational and educational center who have been working in recent years, applying basic work readiness programs, skills for laboral success, as well as the development and implementation of methodologies for labor linkages with the identification of more than 50 strategic alliances with the private sector and the Vocational Training Institute (INFOP). The project investment was US $ 10.6 million for its first phase, with an extension of US $ 3 MM and a second extension with $ 2 MM. With a total of US $ 15.6 MM.

Program IMPACTOS funded by USAID-CARSI and implemented by Counterpart International partnered with Management Systems International (MSI). June 2013 - January 2015. Responsible for the technical, operational, administrative and financial implementation of the Project. The project focused in citizen participation, community, local governments, youth oriented violence prevention and initiatives of social empowerment. The CAP project employs a working model designed to strengthen and develop the skills and capacities of 7 civil society organizations (CASM, CDH, Children International, CIPRODEH, CIPE, CEPROSAF, COSOCITELA, ADELSAR and FUNADEH) San Pedro Sula, Santa Rosa de Copán, Tegucigalpa and Choluteca), to carry out joint actions from the level of community participation to local government, leaders promoting social empowerment and peaceful coexistence in 36 communities in 7 major cities Of Honduras, in response to the marked increase in violence and social conflict that affects the country. The investment of the project has been US $ 5 million.