Practicums for Fall 2008

Practicum in International Affairs Teams, Clients and Projects

Please click on below project titles for explanation of each project.

 

Access to and Awareness of Comprehensive Abortion Care in Ethiopia

Organization: EngenderHealth
Team: Neesha Goodman, Anna Sackett, Rachel Vasilver
Summary: Students worked with EngenderHealth on policy and regulations review on family planning and abortion care in Etiopia.

Action Lab on Migration

Organization: freeDimensional
Team: Kimberly Achille, James Baker, Jakub Karpieszuk
Summary: Students worked with free Dimensional Action Lab on Migration to develop an outreach campaign to local CBOs in New York City that work with African immigrants and developed funding plans and awareness for the artHARLEM event and other supporting actions internationally.

Evaluation of New York City’s Garden to Cafe Pilot Project

Organization: NY State Department of Agriculture and Markets
Team: Klara Ibarra, Daniel Clason-Hook, Patricia Bowker
Summary: Students worked with the NY State Department of Agriculture and Markets to conduct a process evaluation to assess the feasibility and implementation of scaling the New York City School Food Garden-to-Café Pilot project. Garden to Cafe is a collaboration of city and state agencies and community groups to integrate student-grown foods into the school menu during educational "Harvest Day" events.

Messaging Best Practices for Ethnic Community-Based Organizations

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Team: Silvia Perugachi, Bethsy Reid, Feda Saleh, Kristina Szekielda
Summary: Students assessed IRC's Project Strengthening Organizations Assisting Refugees (SOAR)existing technical assistance tools, met with refugee leaders to collect their best practices, oversaw the design of interactive new tools that incorporated their voices and promising practices, and piloted new tools with refugee service providers.

Project SOAR Communications Plan

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Team: Izaak Martin, Drew Peterson-Roach, Ellaha Shaheen, Allison Zucker
Summary: Students worked with The IRC's Project Strengthening Organizations Assisting Refugees (SOAR) coordinating the assessment, design, development, and evaluation of the resettlement department's training initiatives and techinical assistance tools.

Strategic Plan to Expand Travel and Tourism Code of Conduct for Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation

Organization: ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution and Trafficking)
Team: Nelly Ingraham, Elizabeth Miskimmon, Renita Moniaga, David Sadoo
Summary: Students worked with ECPAT, “a global network of organizations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution and trafficking of children for sexual purposes” to design a strategy for the expansion of the Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism in the United States.