Decidiendo para un Futuro Mejor

Tackling information asymmetries to promote schooling trajectories in Latin America

Reduce information biases.  Promote educational continuity and access to higher education.

Our experience with
promoting educational trajectories

DFM arises as a response to the increase in school dropouts 
due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the high costs of 
in-person vocational counseling interventions.

Decidiendo Para un Futuro Mejor is an educational program and a digital vocational counselor for 6 to 12 grade students that promotes educational trajectories and access to higher education.

DFM has been highlighted by the World Bank as a Great Buy to reduce school dropouts in 2020 and 2023.

OsoBot Colombia

DFM assists students in understanding the importance of education by delivering valuable information about its benefits. Students can easily explore different higher education programs and institutions, as well as their financing options.

We guide students in preparing a study plan for their transition to higher education. Additionally, we help educators provide guidance to students so they can make the most out of the tool. The program is digital, flexible, and personalized, adapting to each student's particular needs and the national curriculum of the guidance subject.

Achievements 
& collaborations

DFM has been implemented in 4 countries. Its recent digital version has been piloted (RCT) in more than a thousand educational establishments with preliminary results indicating a reduction in school dropout rates in those institutions that received the program.

1.100 schools, & 2 countries

Implemented in Chile and Colombia, the DFM web platform tracks students' academic trajectories through agreements with both governments.

More than 8 million interactions

Throughout our different and dynamic activities, personalized tools and content.

Students like the content

70% of students rated the program content as "good" or "very good".

60% of completion rate

More than half of students who started 
the program completed it, compared to the average completion rates of 6,5% found on Open Online Courses.

Salary bias reduced in 87%

After the program, students' salary perceptions improve, and biases in accessing goods by education level decrease.

5x Boost in financial aid knowledge

After the program, students' awareness of financial aid options increases fivefold, shifting their perception of financial barriers to higher education.

Participating institutions