The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Organization: EngenderHealth
Summary: The AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance in Kenya is designed to promote healthier behaviors and increased use of high quality HIV/AIDS, RH/FP and MCH services. The project supports community-based dialogue groups and school-based peer education. As the program draws to a close after 5 years, EngenderHealth would like to evaluate outreach and community education through dialogue groups and peer education. Practicum students would analyze collected quantitative and qualitative data, and report findings in an evaluation technical brief with thematic analysis of issues discussed, problems faced, and solutions/recommendations that would contribute to the closeout project report.

Organization: NGO Committee on Financing for Development
Summary: This project would be similar to a Practicum with the same committee in 2008, providing substantive backstopping on international economic policy issues being debated at the UN on which the group, made up of mainly religious-based organizations that advocate for financial and trade reforms to reduce poverty, wants to focus. GPIA students will prepare a joint paper on policy issues in one or more topics and make a presentation to the Committee.

Organization: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Summary: The research paper would analyze the key challenges to greater integration and cooperation among the Central Asian countries in the water and energy sector. Why is there so little cooperation? What can national and international actors do to improve the chances of success in this area? What can the countries learn from the Indus Basin Water Agreement of the 1960s between India and Pakistan and the ongoing Nile Basin Initiative among Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and other riparian countries?