| CENFOTUR | Tourism Training Centre (Centro de Formación en Turismo) |
| CETPRO | Technical-Productive Education Centre (Centro de Educación Técnico-Productiva) |
| DRE | Regional directorates of education (Dirección Regional de Educación) |
| EBA | Alternative basic education (Educación Básica Alternativa) |
| EBE | Special basic education (Educación Básica Especial) |
| EBR | Regular basic education (Educación Básica Regular) |
| ECEC | Early childhood education and care |
| EIB | Intercultural and bilingual education (Educación Intercultural Bilingüe) |
| ENDES | Demographic and Family Health Survey (Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud Familiar) |
| ENLA | National Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (Evaluación Nacional de Logros de Aprendizaje) |
| ERCE | UNESCO Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (Evaluación Nacional de Logros de Aprendizaje) |
| JEC | Whole School Day policy (Jornada Escolar Completa) |
| INEI | National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática) |
| ITE | Initial teacher education |
| ISCED | International Standard Classification of Education |
| LAC | Latin America and the Caribbean |
| MEDIT | Monitoring the Quality of Early Childhood Learning and Development Environments (Monitoreo de la Calidad de los Entornos de Aprendizaje y Desarrollo Infantil Temprano) |
| MELQO | Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes |
| MIDIS | Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Ministerio de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social) |
| MINEDU | Ministry of Education (Ministerio de Educación) |
| MSMEs | Micro, small, and medium enterprises |
| MTPE | Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo) |
| NEET | Not in Education, Employment, or Training |
| NQF | National Qualifications Framework |
| PISA | Programme for International Student Assessment |
| PEC | Community Education Promoters (Promotoras Educativas Comunitarias) |
| PNESTP | National Policy for Tertiary and Technical-Productive Education (Política Nacional de Educación Superior y Técnico-Productiva) |
| PNMNNA | National Multisectoral Policy for Children and Adolescents to 2030 (Política Nacional Multisectorial para las Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes al 2030) |
| PRONIED | National Programme for Educational Infrastructure (Programa Nacional de Infraestructura Educativa) |
| PRONOEI | Non-formal programmes (Programas No Escolarizados de Educación Inicial) |
| SENATI | National Service for Training in Industrial Work (Servicio Nacional de Adiestramiento en Trabajo Industrial) |
| SENCICO | National Service for Training in the Construction Industry (Servicio Nacional de Capacitación para la Industria de la Construcción) |
| SIAGIE | Educational Institution Management Support Information System (Sistema de Información de Apoyo a la Gestión de la Institución Educativa) |
| SIIESTP | Information System for Higher and Technical-Productive Education (Sistema Integrado de Información de la Educación Superior y Técnico-Productiva) |
| SINEACE | National System for the Evaluation, Accreditation and Certification of Educational Quality (Sistema Nacional de Evaluación, Acreditación y Certificación de la Calidad Educativa) |
| SUNEDU | National Superintendence of Higher University Education (Superintendencia Nacional de Educación Superior Universitaria) |
| TEI | Tertiary education institution |
| UGEL | Local education authorities (Unidad de Gestión Educativa Local) |
| VET | Vocational Education and Training |
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