Team: Olga Lenskaya, Scott Rosefield, Jon Ingles, Roza Grigoryan
Summary: DRP wanted to determine the viability of hosting an online Clearinghouse to support NGO partners in the Darfur region. The Clearinghouse concept is an up-to-the-minute database of information and resources regarding the water situation in Eastern Chad and Darfur. Students researched existing clearinghouse examples, technical processes, cost of development, and other relevant issues and recommended the most viable business plan for DRP.
Team: Andres Zea, Aarti Virani, Banu Eksi, Kat Preftes, Agustin Orengo, Anita Wahi
Summary: Students designed a portal for the Liberian election that linked citizens, foreign observers, journalists, candidates and interest groups into a coherent ‘community of interest' around the election.
Organization: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)Team: Veena Kasat, Susanna Arcella, Melissa Edwards, Megan Fingleton, Cristina Gomez Lucas, Alaina Willing, Larissa Curado, Marisa Westheimer
Summary: The Practicum team worked with UNFPA to develop a working paper that strengthened UNFPA's understanding of the population and development, reproductive health and gender equality issues of persons with disabilities, more particularly women and young people, and established a stronger framework for UNFPA's work on persons with disabilities.
Team: Joanna Da-Sylva, Bijal Patel, Jenny Hughes, Otilia Mirambeaux, Elizabeth Buckley, Anna Novick, Anthony Lopez
Summary: Students undertook a thorough academic and policy literature review on conflict prevention, mapped regional and subregional conflict prevention architecture, and explored the knowledge on causes of and dynamics around electoral violence and available tools to prevent such violence. Students also evaluated existing conflict assessment methodologies, explored respective strengths and weaknesses of these methodologies, and explored how different actors translate results of these assessments into effective conflict prevention and/or peacebuilding strategies and policies.
Organization: UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID)Team: Kelly Creighton, Liz Agi, Maria del Mar Gutierrez, Michael Cahayla, Mansura Khanam, Shoshana Goldstein
Summary: Students developed a white paper to make the case for ICTs as a crucial instrument of economic and social development, with a particular focus on Gender and Development MDGs, that can serve as a guide to policy-makers and ICTD practitioners, and be used as reference in designing and implementing policies to achieve the MDGs.
Team: Nadia Claudi, Scott Miller, Sean Thomas, Ximena Maroto, Flannery Miller, Ayelet Vardi, Christoffer Naess
Summary: Project description coming.
Faculty Supervisor: Peter Lucas