Dear First-Year EPD students, 

We have just assigned second-year students to our EPD workshop teams and have some openings for 1-2 students on several teams.

(The EPD workshop is a required part of the EPD curriculum, and also satisfies the capstone requirement for MIA and MPA students. The workshop is a 3-credit spring semester course, although the teams will start work on their projects over the next few weeks. This year, we do not expect the workshop projects to include any field travel over spring break, although we will revisit the situation in January if circumstances change.)

If you are interested in joining any of the following workshop projects, please send your resume or CV to me (at em419@columbia.edu) by noon on Thursday, Nov. 11, and indicate which project(s) you would like to join. 
 

 -- Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI): “How ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Considerations Are Implemented Through Supply Chains”

 -- Dalberg Advisors: “Mobilizing Domestic Institutional Capital for Impact Across Latin America” (Spanish proficiency preferred)

 -- Hacey Health Initiative: “Designing a Health Innovation Lab for Nigeria”

 -- OECD Innovation Facility: “Innovation Capabilities in Member Organizations of the OECD Development Assistance Committee”

-- Trickle Up: “Integrating the Graduation Approach in Refugee Programming: A Meta-Evaluation”

-- UNDP Accelerator Labs: “Mining UNDP’s Solutions Mapping Platform for Grassroots Innovations in Clean and Affordable Energy”

-- UNDP Inclusive Insurance Initiative: “Developing a Research and Evidence Strategy on Inclusive Insurance for UNDP’s New Insurance and Risk Finance Facility”

-- UN Habitat Jordan: “Fostering Effective Public, Private and People Partnerships (PPPP) for Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Policy and Development in Jordan” (Arabic fluency preferred)

-- UNICEF Generation Unlimited: “Developing a Scaling and Sustainability (Financing) Strategy for the Youth Challenge”

-- UNICEF Risk Analysis & Preparedness Team: “Creating a Novel Global Dataset to Support Humanitarian Risk Analysis”

-- UN Resident Coordinator (Mongolia): “Innovative Financing to Enable Mongolia’s UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2023-2027”

-- WFP Centre of Excellence (Cote d’Ivoire): “Conducting a Landscape Analysis of Post-Harvest Loss Reduction Programmes in West and Central Africa”

Thank you, 
Jenny McGill
EPD Workshop Director and EPD Concentration Co-Director