COSTA RICA

Women Migrants Advocacy in Latin America--Costa Rica):

For the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada

focus group discussions, fgds, focus group training, impact evaluation, needs assessment, women in development, program evaluation, migration research

Barrio, "Las Rosas," home of many Nicaraguan migrant women in San Jose

This review for the Women’s Rights and Citizenship Program (WRC) used field visits and desk reviews of multiple projects in three regions—Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South/Southeast Asia—and one project in Middle East and North Africa. The review explored WRC’s programmatic relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency in supporting three core objectives–fostering quality research and analysis, building research capacity, and supporting research that results in evidence-based, concrete recommendations for policy influence and social change.

GDI Director, Janet Mancini Billson, conducted focus group and key informant interviews in 2009 with members of the University of Costa Rica researchers who are studying the situation of Nicaraguan women migrants in Costa Rica.