Increasing the teachers' attendance: Peruvian incentive project in rural schools

This research focuses on the evaluation of the second year (2004) of the pilot project "rural teacher attendance incentive plan" developed by the Secretary of Strategic Planning of the Ministry of Education of Perú and co-financed by the World Bank. This project aims to increase the attendance of rural teachers in five poor departments of Perú: Ayacucho, Cusco, Piura, Puno and San Martin. This pilot project was implemented because many studies found that the attendance of teachers in poor areas is very low due to the geographic isolation, the weather, and the distance from larger communities and family.