The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Summary: Students will undertake a comprehensive study to shed light on government policies and legislation concerning the development of youth, services available to youth in the fields of education, health-care, sports, travel, employment, career counseling, and other areas of social well being. It will ascertain the strengths and handicaps (if any) in national policies and programmes concerning youth development and welfare, and recommend measures for reforming the conditions wherever needed.

Organization: Ashoka
Summary: Offered through Milano, this Practicum will work with social entrepreneurship organization Ashoka on their upcoming "Sustainable Urban Housing: Collaborating for Liveable and Inclusive Cities" competition to find innovative solutions to integrate and develop affordable, inclusive, and sustainable urban housing that respects the environment, local cultures, and practices. This global competition, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, seeks new products, policies, and strategies that mobilize community resources and the ingenuity of designers, planners, environmentalists, developers, bankers, engineers, and civic and government leaders.

Organization: United Nations (UN)
Summary: This project would providing substantive backstopping on selected international economic policy issues and possibly on questions of reform of the international "architecture" of global economic governance (role of UN, Bretton Woods institutions, World Trade Organization, Group of 20, etc.) as they are being debated by governments at the UN.

Summary: Students will work with the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene to explore increasing access to free and low-cost physical activity programs and spaces in NYC, including self-sustaining physical activity programming opportunities, the feasibility of self-sustaining funding sources, with policy suggestions and a pilot system.

Summary: Students will assist in NACLA Board Liaison and Staff to conduct an organizational assessment that identifies strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Summary: Students will be asked to carry out research about the human development indicators of the country selected, through an extensive review and integration of the economic development, policy and human rights literatures available. The research will for example seek to relate health and/or education statistical outcomes in the country to other comparable countries and to data over time, and aim to disaggregate the outcomes according to regional, socio-economic, ethnic and gender lines.

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?

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

Organization: Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development
Team: Stela Petrova, Maxim Muzykus, Leila Gheit, Vasti Cedeno, Justine Caccamo
Summary: Students worked with Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development, an independent non-partisan Kosovo think-tank, to provide papers on security challenges and threats, and analyzed Kosovo's and international community's presence for meeting these identified threats and challenges. Click above on project title for full explanatory document.

Organization: UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID)
Team: Doriana Molla, Andrea Borde, Charles Fromm, Farzad Kapadia, Eleece Sherwood, Jane Brandt Sørensen
Summary: Students developed a policy guide for UNDESA & DAID for ICTs to explore how ICTs can contribute to achieve Health (Child and Maternal Health, HIV/AIDS) MDGs.

Organization: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Team: Tiffany Wheatland, Zein Rahemtulla, Mari Flora, Lauren Horowitz, Lamese Bader
Summary: The UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Violence Against Women worked with the PIA team to analyze and develop a working paper based on an ongoing piloting programming initiative to address violence against women in 10 countries - Philippines, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, Jordan, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Chile, Jamaica and Paraguay that addresses issues relevant to violence against women.

Organization: Cities Alliance
Team: Frédéric Choiniére, Meghan Holohan, Marisse Del Olmo Crenier
Summary: The Cities Alliance developed a new mode of work in the University Urban Research Initiative (UURI) which would directly engage universities in both developing and developed countries to strengthen urban development initiatives. Students worked with Cities Allaince to complement existing networks and professional associations, and enhanced the contribution of the Cities Alliance to urban development.

Organization: Center for Democracy and Development
Team: Michelle Betton, Carolina Hernandez, Therese Vana
Summary: Students developed a current affairs webzine specifically written by and for the global Liberian community - designing the site, soliciting initial content and providing editing and feedback to authors and contributors.

Organization: Cities Alliance
Team: Allison Castaldi, Allie Esslinger, Mark Farrell-Javits, Silvana Gramajo Barboni, Daniel Liswood, Cinthya Marquez, Louise Moreira Daniels, Marc Mousky
Summary: Students worked for Cities Alliance to establish a University Network for Urban Assistance which involved developing-country universities interested in researching impact of international urban assistance in their respective cities. This work involved creating a system for developing profiles of universities in the developing world where there is a major potential for this work, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and subsequently inviting them to participate in a 2009 international meeting. The work included developing a dissemination strategy for city development studies, slum upgrading strategies, and other "knowledge products" developed by the Cities Alliance which is a collaborative program of 25 governments, the United Nations, and the World Bank.

Organization: Little Penang Street Market
Team: Kadijatu Conteh, Alexa Degioannini, Rachel Elin, Hanna Kadlec, Ryan Short
Summary: Students designed an evaluation module for artisan fair in Malaysia. Student traveled in the summer to implement surveys in Malaysia contingent on fund raising during the semester and/or student's own resources.

Organization: ProDESC - Proyectos de Desarrollo Económico, Social y Cultural
Team: Mac Glovinsky, Chelsea Long, Ingrid Rosario
Summary: Students prepared reports on international best practices and comparative perspectives on human rights-based community development in Mexico's extractive industry.

Organization: UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Team: Jihane Ben Khedher, Alisha Banji, Haruka Ishii, Mayuri Saxena, Karin Smith, Nicole Weitzner
Summary: Rape is a war crime. Sexual violence has been a focus in Congo, and there has been increasing civil society and humanitarian organization pressure for action. The UN SC passed resolution 1820/2008 demanding "immediate and complete cessation by all parties to armed conflict of all acts of sexual violence against civilians." Students collected data on this issue, made an assessment and suggested measures for adoption by the UN to provide protection to girls and women against sexual violence. In addition, students examined the questions: Can UN SC resolution 1820/2008 achieve its objectives? Is there will among member states to act or is the resolution going to meet the same fate as so many other UN resolutions?

Organization: UN NGO Committee on Migration
Team: Kyle Carroll, Leonore Haskell, Gigi Khadivian, Jennifer Velasquez, Andrea Wise, Nejdan Yildiz
Summary: The NGO Committee on Migration would like to be more effective advocates on behalf of migrants as the debate moves forward to the 3rd GFMD in Athens in October 2009 and the 4th GFMD in Argentina in 2010. Students produced a Policy and Analysis paper that included recommendations and strategies.

Organization: UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service
Team: Asch Harwood, Mariluz Lopez, William Post, Bradley Seelig, Christian Sempere, Jon Wallach
Summary: Students worked with the UN NGLS to prepare for upcoming official international deliberations on globalization. Projects involved identifying, soliciting, receiving and synthesizing NGO views from around the world on financial architecture reforms for the General Assembly president's commission on the financial crisis.

Organization: UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID)
Team: Brian Gutterman, Shahreen Rahman, Jorge Supelano, Laura Thies, Mai Yang
Summary: Against setbacks in achieving MDGs, it is widely acknowledged that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can potentially accelerate the pace of progress. Students were assigned to develop a series of white papers, one for each MDGs cluster, to explore how specifically ICTs can contribute to the MDGs and make recommendation for policy-makers, governments, donors and international development agencies.

Organization: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Team: Semra Hailelul, Alex Iyasu, Vitali Tcherniak, Markus Urek
Summary: Students conducted a critical review of the literature related with the Human Development indices and a selection of global composite indices from major development institutions. The review assessed the additional value of proposed alternatives in supporting development policies and programmes.

Organization: Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Team: Elizabeth Beresford, Joshua Greenstein, Jen Hill, Nat Katin-Borland, Johanna Quinn
Summary: Students analyzed the One United Nations (One UN) pilot projects in Vietnam and Tanzania from a gender perspective, including documenting best practices and challenges in Tanzania and Vietnam to allow possible replication in other pilot countries. Students also made recommendation on how to most strategically use the UN space to advance women's priorities in a particular country, and ensuring women's perspectives are heard and documented.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Organization: Human Rights Watch
Team: Adrian Weisel, Dustin Friedman, Laetitia Pactat
Summary: Students worked with Human Rights Watch to analyze case studies on issues of conflict, amnesties that are offered and how those worked in practice in select countries: El Salvador, Argentina, Afghanistan, Namibia, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Democratic Replublic of Congo, Kosovo, Haiti.

Organization: EngenderHealth
Team: Anita Rohira, Meriame Filali Adib, Marybec Griffin-Tomas, Natalie Cline
Summary: Students worked with EngenderHealth to conduct a desk review of existing policies and regulations on family planning and abortion care in Ethiopia.

Organization: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Team: Sam Stern, Homa Sorouri, Sarha Rouamba, Betsy Aleshire
Summary: Student consultants reviewed the most up-to-date academic and international development literature, as well as Internet resources on gender equality and trade. The work involved compiling good practices, tools and analysis and highlighted specific recommendations for a wide range of stakeholders, including civil society, women's organizations, women entrepreneurs, policy-makers, donors and other development partners, in particular UNDP.

Organization: Huairou Commission
Team: Amy Walker, Erica Reade, Justine MacWilliam, Ellen Guevera, Nipin Gangadharan
Summary: Students assessed, promoted and created briefs on the grassroots women's campaigns to secure land and property rights underway in countries located in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. They also worked on the incorporation of grassroots women's experiences, critiques and perspectives into international policy level dialogues taking place at the United Nations in New York City this Spring.

Organization: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Team: Alivia Thomas, Kianoosh Tahbaz-Salehi, Julie Rentz, Barbara Kramer, Michael Gilbride
Summary: Students a)conducted literature review of existing legal frameworks b) Analysed the three prevailing approaches detailing the implications of each approach on HIV risk and vulnerability for sex workers, clients and the community c) Developed policy recommendations on legal frameworks

Organization: EngenderHealth
Team: Alexis Thomas, Maria Hoffmann, James Cerqua
Summary: Students worked with EngenderHealth's ACQUIRE Project (Access, Quality, and Use in Reproductive Health). This project works globally to advance and support the availability, quality, and use of facility-based reproductive health and family planning services at every level of the health care system and to strengthen links between facilities and communities.

Organization: Ajkem'a Loy'a
Team: Nick Smith, Eileen Reyes, Aparna Rau, Jessenia Pillasagua, N'deye Niang, David Dorfman
Summary: The Liderezas Mayas Business and Design project offered students the opportunity to gain an understanding of key concepts and skills essential to become global consultants for small business enterprises focusing on women's empowerment. This project specifically involved working with an organized group of Mayan women in Guatemala to develop a sustainable business model, designing and producing handicrafts for a broad market, and developing their business and organizational skills.

Organization: NGO Committee on Financing for Development
Team: Sunera Taikaram, Matt Simonds, Hanako Shiratori, Erin Hopkins, MaryAnne Hoekstra, Hitomi Akiyama
Summary: Students analyzed and summarized a prior project that was conducted by a 2007 PIA team for the Road to Doha and recommend a lobby strategies to encourage other NGOs working on the specific proposal to work together towards a joint comprehensive lobby initiative.

Organization: Amazonia Brasil
Team: Jeroen Kwakkenbos, Morgane Le Marzellac, Chryso D'Angelo
Summary: Students worked with Amazonia Brasil to conduct research on Bilateral Relations and certified materials in the U.S. to be the building of an upcoming expo, developed creative communication and media plans, and worked on the development of the pedagogic program that supports the School Tours.

Organization: United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
Team: Louisa Lippi, Sarina Cipriano, Assiata Chikuhwa
Summary: Students worked with UNICEF to analyze district level data, conducted literature review on poverty and child poverty situations in Tanzania's various districts, and conducted a stakeholder analysis of results from the Demographic Health Survey, in addition to elaborating a protocol for field assessment of child poverty and policies.

Organization: CARE International
Team: Ximena Gutierrez
Summary: The PIA team worked with CARE to perform a feasibility study on the possibilities of working with Mayan women in Guatemala to design and produce handicrafts for a broad market. CARE through its Lideresas Mayas program currently works with a group of Mayan women in the Guatemalan highlands, who have identified their textiles and handicrafts as products that they would like to sell more broadly than their village market.

Organization: NGO Committee on Financing for Development
Team: Carmelita Francois, Ivan Hall, Nada Kim, Verona Miyandi, Robina Singh
Summary: Students worked with the NGO Commmitee on Financing for Development(FfDO) under DESA to create 'shadow reports' and lobby strategies on several issues relevant to Bretton Woods institutions, World Trade Organization and The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) interests'.

Organization: Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
Team: Anushay Anjum, Liz Demchak, Hideko Otake
Summary: Students worked with Sauti Yetu to develop a strategic plan outlining key outcomes for the organization for next 5 years, make changes int he organizational structure and summarized stakeholder input to produce a summary document including the strategic plan, budget, and action plan.

Organization: Independent Diplomat
Team: Ilir Deda, Jenna Mancini, Tamara Shahabian
Summary: Students conducted research on Somaliland government's existing lobbying and public diplomacy activity and coordination in the United States.

Organization: Municipality of San Fernando, El Salvador
Team: Liza Konnert
Summary: Student engaged in Plan 2021, an initiative launched by the El Salvadorian Ministry of Education to enhance the education of all Salvadorian students.

Organization: Make A Ripple
Team: Katinka Eikelenboom, Emily Andrews, Bryan Nicholson, Cate Owren, Nancy Rizkilla
Summary: Students worked with Ethical Mining and Green Gold to create a sustainable market for ethically mined gold, identified a mining company to target and monitored US position internationally on global mercury.

Organization: Interrupcion
Team: Christina Irene
Summary: Student worked with HelpArgentina, completing translations for the website and legal archive.

Organization: The Athena Women's Network
Team: Malgorzata Juszczak, Franziska Kunze, Natalie Rodic, Marzena Szewczyk, Jennifer Zanowiak
Summary: The PIA team conducted field analysis including a compendium of research, interviews, and policy statements/guidance and research on rights-based consensus statement that identifies the core areas of agreement between the gender, human rights, and HIV communities.

Organization: Graduate Program on International Affairs
Team: Ranjit Jose, Alison Hayes, Andrea Peters
Summary: Students conducted a literature review and research analysis on increased inequality as a result of economic growth since the 1980s.

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Team: Tania Hary, Daniel Gore, Elizabeth Chiappa, Katia Araujo-Natt
Summary: The Resource Management-Prevention of Exploitation and Abuse team worked with the Global Advisor for the Prevention of Exploitation and Abuse to assess, gather and review materials and resources available on exploitation and abuse. The team also developed a toolkit of resources that can be used by all programs and develop a system to ensure periodic review and tracking of new materials.

Organization: NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault
Team: Rosa Tesfai, Marcel Reynolds, Tania Lozano
Summary: Students work with the planning committee to conceptualize the PAR structure for a citywide project,researched and reported to the planning committee on best practices and innovative examples of cross-site PAR projects, and worked closely with each of the participating organizations to write a comprehensive funding proposal for the first stage of a citywide project.

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Team: Zayn Aabakil, Amina Conte, Andrea Feduzi, Stephanie Miller, Laura Summerhays
Summary: Students developed creative and innovative programming models in the areas of mentoring, youth leadership, and academic enrichment - taking into account refugee history, age, gender, culture and resettlement location - including a toolbox containing curricula, arts initiatives, recreational activities, and events planning to serve as the basis for pilot projects across the IRC resettlement network. Students also analyzed global statistics, trends, patterns, child protection issues, formal and non-formal educational programs, and promising practices concerning refugee youth and identify potential implications for stateside refugee youth programming.

Organization: UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW)
Team: Noemi Gonzalo-Bilbao, Liliana Gamboa
Summary: Students collaborated with International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) to study the effects of transnational motherhood on Dominican migrant women living in New York City and their experience with family reunification.

Organization: Human Rights Watch
Team: Jesica Santos, Radosh Piletich, Monica Paz, Bonnie Nezaj, Kellie McDaniel, Micheal Hill
Summary: Students worked with Human Rights Watch to develop a comprehensive paper that include Mozambique's background on the conflict, the amnesties that were offered and how those worked out in practice, to determine if in fact Mozambique is an example where amnesty fostered long term stability.

Organization: Foundation for Sustainable Development (FUNDESO)
Team: Heather Higle
Summary: Student compiled an Annual Activities Report for FUNDESO, analyzing a breakdown of their projects, as well as the many agreements that exist between FUNDESO and international donors and NGOs.

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Team: Danielle Rosario-Mullen, Kim Hafner
Summary: Student worked with the International Rescue Committee to work with refugee organizations to draft an outline of a trip report before and after the trips, and worked with refugee organizations to organize a presentation of the trip results to refugee communities.

Organization: East African Center for the Empowerment of Women and Children
Team: Samantha Silva, Kate Crowley
Summary: Students were tasked with developing the content for an ecommerce site that would bring added income to the East African Commission, the women of the producers group, and to the Vutakaka Center programs.

Organization: Human Rights Watch
Team: Julie Wilkinson, Sri Peddu, Nina Arron
Summary: Students conducted background research, primary interviews and International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia trial transcript analysis for Human Rights Watch.

Organization: United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
Team: Natalia Mezsaros, Martin Mercado, John Lindsay, Alejandra Davidziuk, Tanya Chen
Summary: Students developed a UNICEF policy position on social safety nets and security for children.

Organization: United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
Team: Amy Lee, Luzmila Lambrano, Makousse Kone, Elena Guzman, Yasmeen Hayes
Summary: Students analyzed the situation of children in 'fragile state' countries in the worst economic, governance, and social conditions to generate alternatives to current Poverty Reduction Strategies Papers (PRSP) practices and other national development plans.

Organization: Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
Team: Tali Wojnowich, Stacey Stecko, Julio Schuback
Summary: The PIA team worked with community-based organizations (CBOs), especially in communities under-represented in the previous year's Immigrant History Week's. Students assisted in developing, planning and executing a program that explores the theme of immigrant history as well as strategized new partnerships by investigating and contacting additional CBOs who work with immigrant groups.

Organization: Doctors of the World-USA (now HealthRight International)
Team: BoHee Yoon, Zoe Stein, Melissa Jangl, Nicole Barber
Summary: Students conducted and presented their research that examined the capacity of medical centers in New York City to assess torture through Doctors of the World-USA and developed assessment tools designed to assess awareness of and responsiveness to torture.

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Team: Carleen Victoria, Rachel Velasco, Malika Gujrati, Mevi Gray, Ingrid Amezquita
Summary: Students worked with the International Rescue Committee to conduct a study on the types of outreach methods currently being used in the anti-trafficking field to reach non-citizen trafficking victims;how successful methods of outreach can be replicated in diverse communities; and how these findings can be shared throughout the anti-trafficking field.

Organization: Independent Diplomat
Team: Leila Tayeb, Christina Kiel, Sarwat Hameed, Vishakha Apte
Summary: Students conducted research on Somaliland's Struggle for Recognition based on several questions that included, How does that history affect Somaliland's claimfor recognition as an independent state? -What are the criteria for the recognition of a state? Does Somaliland meet those criteria? If it does not, what does it need to do in order to fulfil them? -Is there a process for recognising a new state, eg in the UN or African Union? What does it consist of?

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Team: Sarah Siliman, Rachel Nadelman, Anna Ivantsov
Summary: The International Rescue Commission and a three-person student team from the New School Graduate Program in International Affairs partnered to investigate the links and opportunities U.S.-based community- based organizations can offer both domestically and abroad.

Organization: East African Center for the Empowerment of Women and Children
Team: Sheren Brunson, Tricia Petruney, Stacey Zito
Summary: The PIA team worked with the East African Center(EAC) to research and gain funding sources for the organization, produce a service delivery model focusing on delivering anti-retroviral drugs to HIV/AIDS infected mothers and research channels for marketing the EAC's sewing club items including stores as well as on-line channels, and develop a marketing plan. Focus particular attention on "Fair Trade" marketing.

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Team: Rebecca Murray, Vida Mulec, Brendan Harley, Nayla Chacra
Summary: The four- person research team from the New School Practicum in International Affairs selected eight refugee populations who were resettled in the U.S. over varying lengths of time. Over a three- month period this fall, the team interviewed community- based organizations that provide assistance to these refugees examining their organizing capacity and collaborations, both locally and internationally.

Organization: Consortium for Haitian Empowerment
Team: Johnny Celestin
Summary: Students worked with the Consortium for Haitian (CHE) to answer a number of critical questions currently facing the organization regarding how to better serve its client members.

Organization: Interrupcion
Team: Miyuki Jokiranta, Jenna Peterson
Summary: Students worked in a variety of areas related to the definition, development, and measurement of interrupcion* objectives for 2006 to develop the integration process of technology, products, services, investments, and social value. Students finally provided recommendations for the organization's 2006 plan.

Organization: United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
Team: Tatiana Macio, Blerta Cela, Verouschka Capellan, Michela Calabrese, Aja Badame
Summary: The Child Poverty Impact Assessment Team (CPIAT), commissioned by UNICEF, designed and piloted a methodology in Nicaragua, one of the first countries to implement the Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSPs), to determine if child poverty has been reduced by PRSPs. In New York City, the team conducted research on the state of children in the country and designed a methodology using secondary data. CPIAT traveled to Managua, Nicaragua to conduct fieldwork and pilot the methodology in order to determine its impact on child poverty.

Organization: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Team: Lovesun Parent, Alice Liu, Alyson Knox, Wynnie-Fred Hinds, Shannon Hayes
Summary: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) collaborated with 5 students as consultants for its Global Youth Partners (GPY) Initiative. These students were charged with the objective of documenting the project in Egypt within the GYP Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.

Organization: India China Institute
Team: Amy Weiss, Audrey Lacatis, Edmond Krasniqi, Steven King, Beatriz D'Alessandro, Masha Berek
Summary: Students were assigned by The Indian China Institute (ICI) to provide an analysis of institutions, key actors and current themes that would assist the ICI in refining and implementing its objective: to effectively serve as a hub of an international network of institutions and activities in order to deepen and broaden understanding of the global processes.