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EPD Workshop
Workshop in Development Practice – Final Presentations
April 26 and 27
Room 1512, International Affairs Building
9:00 am – 6:30 pm (reception to follow on April 27)
The student teams in SIPA’s Workshop in Development Practice have been working this year with clients in over twenty countries on innovative projects involving food security, clean technologies, health and education, governance, humanitarian response, peacebuilding, gender mainstreaming, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and private sector development. The teams will be presenting their findings and recommendations in a conference at SIPA on April 26 and 27. Workshop clients, members of the Columbia/SIPA community and the general public are invited to attend any sessions of interest.
The Workshop in Development Practice is co-sponsored by the Economic and Political Development and Human Rights Concentrations at SIPA. This year’s Workshop clients include Agropalma (Brazil), Buenos Aires Government (Argentina), Caucus for Children's Rights (Tanzania), East-West Management Institute & UNIDO (Rwanda), First Access (Tanzania), Fundación Bavaria (Colombia), Foundation Escalera (Mexico), Instituto Palmas (Brazil), Kopernik (Indonesia), Man Up (Burundi, Guatemala, and Guyana), National Innovation Fund (Kazakhstan), Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust (Sri Lanka), PRI (Nigeria), Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ - Brazil), Samata Foundation (Nepal), Teach for India (India), TechnoServe (Ethiopia), The Hunger Project (Bangladesh), Transparency International - Aid Effectiveness (Colombia, Liberia, and Sri Lanka), Transparency International - Education (Cameroon and Ghana), UNDESA & UN Women (New York), UNDP (New York), Village Health Works (Burundi), Women's Political Resource Center (Georgia), and World Vision (Haiti). The complete schedule of presentations may be found in the link below.
Workshop Final Presentation Schedule
For more information, please contact Professor Jenny McGill (em419@columbia.edu) or Ilona Vinklerova (iv2105@columbia.edu).