Journal of Education for International Development 2:2 July 2006 USING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND INFORMED DIALOGUE TO INFLUENCE EDUCATION POLICY:

.pdf on [insert month] [insert day], [insert year] From 2002-2005, the United States Agency for International Development in El Salvador worked with the Ministry of Education of El Salvador and other key stakeholders to support a series of participatory assessments and studies that led to changes in education policy. This was carried out as El Salvador was redefining its national education agenda. Different approaches were used in informing the policy formulation process. These included having international researchers persuade policy makers to analyze new policy options to collaborations between researchers and policy makers to construct new knowledge. This paper discusses several approaches to informing education policy dialogue using participatory research, drawing on experiences from El Salvador, and shares lessons learned