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Malawi Sign Language Specialist Advocates for Inclusion  

To begin the new decade on a positive note, J&A proudly announces that we have been awarded a U.S. Government General Services (GSA) Professional Services Contract (formerly MOBIS). Please navigate to our Government page to see the details.

J&A’s corporate headquarters have provided a polling place in Los Angeles for more than 30 years but in 2019, Los Angeles County selected a new method for voting. In the future, elections will emphasize the use of mail-in ballots, with regional voting centers for those who wish to vote in person. Therefore local precinct polling...

Our firm sponsored a robust contingent of employees and international colleagues to attend the Comparative and International Education Society’s 63rd annual conference in April of 2019 in San Francisco, California. Our team offered over two dozen presentations highlighting project activities carried out in Africa, Latin America and the United States. Themes covered include: gender equity,...

In February 2019, J&A was awarded the Reading for All Malawi (REFAM) Project.  USAID is embarking on this inclusive education activity that will build on USAID Malawi’s extensive work to date in teaching children to read by expanding support to Malawi’s National Reading Program.  The objective is to address the needs of children with disabilities...

During the Global Reading Network’s Early grade reading benchmarks: Methods, experience and future directions webinar on 27 June 2018, Leslie Rosales from Juárez & Associates’ Guatemala office presented USAID LifeLong Learning Project’s experience on establishing a fluency benchmark using a regression discontinuity approach. Establishing benchmarks is part of a longitudinal study about learning to read...

In the spring of 2017, Juárez & Associates’ staff and consultants offered an International Development course to select undergraduate UCLA students who were interested in the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to advance sustainable solutions to real world problems of their own choosing. The subject matter of the course addressed such questions as:...

On 26 October 2016, at UCLA, Juárez & Associates hosted a luncheon/roundtable discussion on socioeconomic development in Central America, Mexico and the U.S. with Consuls General of Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico. Coordinated by Octavio Pescador, the event offered the J&A Guatemala team an opportunity to share USAID Leer y Aprender project highlights with the...