Master of Arts in Sustainable Development:
International Policy and Management, Washington, DC
Field Experience and Professional Practicum
James Årinaitwe
James Årinaitwe
Årinaitwe, who is originally from Uganda, attended SIT on a full scholarship; shortly after receiving his degree, he began a one-year Global Health Corps fellowship working with Single Stop USA in New York City.
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Practicum placements will provide in-depth, hands-on learning, enhance résumés, and expand professional contacts.
WASHINGTON, DC, REGION PLACEMENTS:
- American Friends Service Committee
- APCO Worldwide
- Development and Training Services (dTS)
- ECODIT
- Global Communities (formerly CHF)
- Grassroots Business Fund
- Institute for Women's Policy Research
- InterAction
- International Youth Foundation
- Living Classroom Foundation
- Partners for the Americas
- Peace Corps — Office of Overseas Programming and Training Support
- Search For Common Ground
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- World Bank, Civil Society Team
- World Bank, Global Foundations Program
- World Bank, Social Development Unit
- World Learning, Civil Society and Governance
- World Learning, Civil Society and Private Partner Engagement
OTHER US PLACEMENTS:
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 Office of Enforcement, Compliance and Environmental Justice
- Global Peace Connect
- Sierra Club
INTERNATIONAL PLACEMENTS:
Africa
- Abalimi Bezekhaya – South Africa
- CARE, Ethiopia
- Creative Solutions Resource Systems — Zanzibar, Tanzania
- Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership — Limpopo (Polokwane), South Africa; Kumasi, Ghana; Uganda
- Round Earth Media — Rabat, Morocco
- World Learning, International Development and Exchange Programs — Ethiopia
Asia
- The House of Mangaldas Girdhardas (MG) – India
- Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) — India
- Behavioural Science Centre — India
- Mongolian Women Farmer's Association and the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry —Mongolia
Latin America and the Carribean
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) — the Caribbean, Jamaica
Students with well established professional contacts are welcome to propose a practicum arrangement.
In the past, students have contributed the following deliverables to their practicum partner organizations:
- Designed and developed new country/sector specific or global project proposals
- Produced lessons-learned documents for country specific, regional, or global projects
- Developed program tools in civil society/governance/private sector projects
- Designed and delivered citizen and organizational capacity development training
- Prepared local development handbooks
- Developed participatory monitoring and evaluation frameworks and studies
- Analyzed local and national level policy advocacy strategies
- Analyzed potential impact investments
- Developed socially responsible blended value projects
- Developed training materials
The practicum is an exciting opportunity both for students and the practicum partner organizations. These partnerships frequently result in outstanding work for the organizations and provide meaningful professional educational value for students. In the third semester, students draw on the learning and data generated by their respective projects to write their capstone paper that culminates the program.
Phone:
802.257.7751
Admissions:
800.336.1616 (toll free in US)
802.258.3510 (outside the US)
TTY:
802.258.3388
Fax:
802.258.3428
Mailing Address:
PO Box 676, 1 Kipling Road
Brattleboro, VT 05302 USA