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Graduated
May, 2001
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Imran Habib Ahmad
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| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
Pakistand and Climate Change: A reflection on experience gained
with Hagler Bailly, Pakistan, as a member of the National Study Team
preparing Pakistan's Initial National Communication to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| Lakshmi Anantanarayan ( kuttyp@hotmail.com
) |
| Home Country: |
India |
| Master's Paper: |
Strategies to enhance the implementation of the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) |
| Update: |
Appointed Program Coordinator of the Abortion Access Project, Cambridge,
Massachesetts |
| Noora Arfaa |
| Home Country: |
USA / Iran |
| Master's Paper: |
Women workers, globalization and a race to the bottom: The politics
of international labor standards -- an internship with the International
Labour Organziation Liaison Office , New York |
| Barbara Bamberger |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Conservation, indigenous people and the politics of parks |
| Update: |
Recently graduated from Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies with an MEM (Master of Environmental Management). Currently
a Graduate Fellow with The Woods Hole Research Center and a consultant
to UNDP's SEED program developing a policy paper on gender and energy |
| Iram Batool |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
A UNFPA strategic framework for harnessing the potential of Information
Communication Technologies in its programmes |
| Roshan Bhandary ( roshan_bhandary@yahoo.com
) |
| Home Country: |
Nepal |
| Master's Paper: |
Action research on women representatives at the local governance
level: A case study of Nepal- internship with DFID-Nepal (UK Department
for International Development) in their Enabling State Program |
| Update: |
Currently working as a South Asian Advocate at "Asian Task
Force Against Domestic Violence" in Boston
|
| Surendra Bhatta |
| Home Country: |
Nepal |
| Master's Paper: |
Preparation of a "Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Programming
Guide" for USAID: Internship at PADCO Inc. Washington, DC and
work with USAID |
| Update: |
Currently working as Technical writer/ Analyst Sustainable Development
Programs at PADCO Inc. Provides support to Climate Change Team in
USAID's Bureau of Economic Growth Agriculture and Trade, EGAT / USAID |
| Mulle P. Chikoko |
| Home Country: |
Malawi |
| Master's Paper: |
Malawian youth-focused youth-led NGOs as partners in development
-- an organizational assessment
|
| Mapule Chiro Cheela |
| Home Country: |
South Africa |
| Master's Paper: |
Regulation of microfinance institutions in South Africa |
| Update: |
Appointed Deputy Director of the Department of Social Development,
Government of South Africa
|
| Pasang Drolma |
| Home Country: |
Tibet |
| Master's Paper: |
Needs assessment and strategy formulation for Tibetan women's vocational
training
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| Fatou Fatty |
| Home Country: |
The Gambia |
| Master's Paper: |
Employment generation for poverty alleviation: A study of cooperative
economic development for women with application for The Gambia |
| Update: |
Associate Director of Cooperative Economics for Women in Revere, MA. |
| Aishwarya Gurung |
| Home Country: |
Nepal |
| Master's Paper: |
Research on Kamaiyas, former agricultural bonded labourers an analysis
of their present situation: An internship with the International
Labour Organziation, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Ghulam Janat (Firdous) |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
Rural Women's Contribution to Household Economy in Sindh, Pakistan
|
| We We Naing |
| Home Country: |
Myanmar |
| Master's Paper: |
Evaluation of Birth Spacing Program in Myanmar |
| Phuong T. Nguyen |
| Home Country: |
Vietman |
| Master's Paper: |
Education for All 200 Assessment in the East Asia-Pacific Region:
Internship with UNICEF Regional Office, Thailand |
| Update: |
Part of the Gender Policy Team, UNICEF Pakistan |
| Rebecca Pearl ( rebpearl@hotmail.com
) |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Update: |
Implemneting UNIFEM's Program on Women's Economic and Social Rights |
| Chaminda Rajapakse |
| Home Country: |
Sri Lanka |
| Master's Paper: |
Internship with the World Commission on Dams Secretariat, Cape
Town, South Africa: The Cost of Forgone Timber and Non-Timer Forest
Products Benefits of Large Dam Projects -- An analysis of twenty-two
examples |
| |
Teaching in the University of North-West, South Africa |
| Freckson T. Ropi |
| Home Country: |
Zimbabwe |
| Master's Paper: |
Enhancing stakeholder participation and accountability in health
budget process in Zimbabwe: A review of the budget allocation formula
used by the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare |
| Babar Sher |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
Developing a manual of guidelines for community-based research:
An internship with the LOKA Institute, Amherst, Massachusetts |
| Aarti Singh |
| Home Country: |
India |
| Master's Paper: |
Impact of shelters on the homeless and staff: Internship with St.
Elizabeth Shelter, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Lawrence Sticca ( caribbermuda@yahoo.com
) |
| Home Country: |
Bermuda |
| Master's Paper: |
A comparative study of sustainable caribbean tourism: Small to
medium inns of the Bahammas (with OAS project support) and Bermuda |
| Josetta Welty |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Internship with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner
for Human Rights, Geneva: Human Rights Approaches to Environmental
Matters Through the Lens of Toxic Waste |
| Update: |
Teaching in the University of North-West, South Africa |
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Graduated May, 2002
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| Dilwonberish Aberra |
| Home Country: |
Ethiopia |
| Master's Paper: |
Impact assessment of structural adjustment programs on sub-Saharan
African countries and its implications for the current debt-relief
initiative |
| Raymond Andam |
| Home Country: |
Ghana |
| Master's Paper: |
Internship with the Department of Housing and Community Development
(DHCD)- Boston: Report on a study of Community Enterprise Economic
Development Programs in Massachusetts |
| Muhammad Imtiaz Anjum |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
Towards understanding The Madrasah System |
| Matthew J. Arner |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Solar Energy in Nepal: Recommendations for accelerated market development
and provision of solar home systems in impoverished rural areas |
| Sonam Belmo |
| Home Country: |
Tibet Autonomous Region, P.R. of China |
| Master's Paper: |
Action Rearch Program to Expand Tibetan Participation in Tibet's
Contemporary Market Economy by Training Entrepreneurs and Skilled
Workers |
| Update: |
Currently working with the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF). A particular focus of her work
is on vocational education for disadvantaged youth and laid-off workers. Sonam is also engaged
in the development of a new program to provide employable skills training to sex workers in Lhasa. |
| Shauna Rae Brown |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Landscape Heterogeneity of Aspen Ecosystems and their Sustainable
Management for Multiple Stakeholders |
| Noriko Chatani |
| Home Country: |
Japan |
| Master's Paper: |
Policies of international financial institutions: How effective
are they in alleviating poverty? |
| Saveria A. Cimino |
| Home Country: |
Italy / USA |
| Update: |
A Gender Analysis: Understanding roles and practices across the
population of Grenada, West Indies |
| Katia Daher-Anenberg |
| Home Country: |
Lebanon |
| Update: |
Education for peace |
| Samik Sundar Das |
| Home Country: |
India |
| Master's Paper: |
Addressing food insecurity in Solmali Region of Ethiopia -- Theory,
Practice and Issues |
| Karin Fernando |
| Home Country: |
Sri Lanka |
| Master's Paper: |
A preliminary study towards establishing a bio-monitoring structure
for the use and conservation of the kithul palm tree (caryota urens)
in the Sinharaja World Heritage Site and surrounding buffer areas,
Sri Lanka |
| Michael Feuer |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Jewish National Fund/Keren Kayemet L'Yisrael -- An assessment of
water development activities |
| Puanani Forbes |
| Home Country: |
United States |
| Master's Paper: |
National Survey of School Feeding Programs and the Role of Food
Aid |
| Reena Gupta |
| Home Country: |
India |
| Master's Paper: |
An evaluation design for development organization: A case study
of Oxfam America |
| Riyad Hansa |
| Home Country: |
South Africa |
| Master's Paper: |
Towards a model for promoting youth entrepreneurship in developing
countries |
| Faisal Islam |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
American Muslims: Who faces the backlash after September 11? |
| Muhammad Manirul Islam |
| Home Country: |
Bangladesh |
| Master's Paper: |
A study on cash flow, senitivity and outdoor recreations of Cistern
Concern Project of the Charles River Watershed Association |
| Update: |
After spending two years teaching at North South University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Muhammad is now living and working in Toronto, Canada, as an Environmental Specialist for a multinational pharmaceutical group. |
| Hussnain Ahmad Jafri |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
School feeding practice in four countries and lessons for Afghanistan
School Feeding Programme |
| Reny Juita |
| Home Country: |
Indonesia |
| Master's Paper: |
Gunung Palung National Park: The First Year of the Era of Regional
Autonomy |
| Kang Min |
| Home Country: |
Tibet Autonomous Region, P.R. of China |
| Update: |
Currently working as Assistant Director of the International Projects Office of the Tibet
Medical College, and has been playing a major role in managing a $990,000 grant from the
China Medical Board to revise the curriculum and strengthen the teaching and facilities
at the Tibet Medical College (TMC). The TMC has recently become part of the University
of Lhasa and is providing five year clinical and medical education for doctors in Tibet. |
| Shah Raees Khan |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
Investigation and documentation of socio-economic conditions of
migratory communities in highland Balochisan, Pakistan |
| Mohammad Taimur Khan |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Update: |
Building programme capacities from a permaculture project towards
a non-governmental organziation |
| Barbara Mangwende |
| Home Country: |
Zimbabwe |
| Master's Paper: |
An impact assessment of the ACCION Texas micro-lending program
and its applicability to Zimbabwe |
| Kelly J. Mason |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Addressing global warming at the local government level |
| Julius N. Mbotiji |
| Home Country: |
Cameroon |
| Master's Paper: |
Volunteer Program on Wildlife and Protected Areas: Wildlife Management
and National Parks - Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations -- Regional Office for Africa, Accra, Ghana |
| Alexis R. Moradi |
| Home Country: |
Sweden / Iran |
| Master's Paper: |
Socio-economic conditions of refugees in Cairo, Egypt |
| Suchitra Mumford-Baranoff ( suchitrab30@hotmail.com
) |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Understanding the issues of humanitarian aid within the field of
international adoption with a review of one agency's effeorts to
respond |
| Lalita Nakarmi |
| Home Country: |
Nepal |
| Master's Paper: |
Prospectives on youth development: Service delivery in New
England states by Women in Community Services, USA |
| Fatima Naqvi |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
The key elements of comanagement initiatives involving indigenous
people: A case study of Southern Belize |
| Basani Ndhambi |
| Home Country: |
South Africa |
| Master's Paper: |
The impact of micro finance on poverty alleviation and women's
participation in socio-economic activities in Nothern Province, South
Africa |
| Arize Nweke |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
How lending institutions like the African Development Bank can
help promote sustainable energy use in developing countries |
| Marsha Pacheco |
| Home Country: |
Trinidad |
| Master's Paper: |
The Caribbean and Global Trade Regime: Links between the declining
traditional economies and the rise of women sex workers, and sex
tourism in the Caribbean |
| Tanya Price |
| Home Country: |
Australia |
| Master's Paper: |
Education for sustainable development: Development of a Master's
Program for the University of the Middle East |
| Fazal-ur-Rehman ( fazal1963@yahoo.com
) |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
Interest Free Micro Credit Program - Designed for urban areas of
Pakistan |
| Update: |
Currently working as fundraising officer with ICNA Relief, a NGO
based in New York, USA |
| Amara Saeed |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
The Mountain Areas Conservancy Trust Fund: Management Alternatives
to Establishing a Sustainable Financial Mechanism |
| Roba Duba Sharamo |
| Home Country: |
Kenya |
| Master's Paper: |
Peacebuilding in Karamoja: An analysis of the pastoralist communities
harmonization initiative of the organziation of African Unity --
Inter-African Bureau of Animal Resources, East Africa |
| Mini Singh ( msmsingh@hotmail.com
) |
| Home Country: |
India |
| Master's Paper: |
The role of social mobilisation and micro-credit towards women's
empowerment and poverty reduction in a sub-Region of South Asia |
| Aster Solomon |
| Home Country: |
Eritrea |
| Master's Paper: |
Basic education policy: Promises and achievements pilot evaluation:
1997 to 2001 Dbarwa and Ghinda Sub-Zones Eritrea |
| Sangeetha Sriram |
| Home Country: |
India |
| Update: |
Volunteerism through the Rejuvenate India Movement - An evaluation |
| Salamat Ali Tabbasum |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
Enviroment and sustainable development: A future challenge to the
CARICOM Region -- Internship with the United Nations Statistics Division
(UNSD), New York |
| Oury Traore |
| Home Country: |
Mali |
| Master's Paper: |
A study of women beggers with children in bamako: Access to social
and economic rights |
| Sara E. Wiesel |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Economic development in Ecuador |
| Humaira Zafar |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
Voices of freedom: Emancipation of slave women in Mauritania |
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Graduated
May, 2003
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| Eriko Atsumi |
| Home Country: |
Japan |
| Master's Paper: |
Quality Education for All: Progress and Challenges Toward EFA Goal
in Bhutan |
| Khady BA |
| Home Country: |
Senegal |
| Master's Paper: |
Abandoning Female Genital Cutting in Senegal: Implementing Policy
for Sustainable Social Transformation |
| Prabhakar Babu Bisana (E-mail: pbbisana@yahoo.co.in) |
| Home Country: |
India |
| Master's Paper: |
Advanced Study: Application of GIS tools in Watershed Management
Programs for Achieving Sustainble Development in AP, Inida |
| Sherri Brokopp |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
What Works in Community Development: The story of Chelsea and East
Boston |
| Mary Elizabeth Brooks |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Advanced Study: The role of universities in development |
| Barthelmy Charles |
| Home Country: |
St. Lucia, West Indies |
| Master's Paper: |
Sustaining Small Farmers via Agricultural Diversification, Viable
Markets and Effective Institutions |
| Dechen Chime |
| Home Country: |
Bhutan |
| Master's Paper: |
Youth Unemployment in Bhutan: A Challenge Towards Gross National
Happiness |
| Peter M.O. Coleman |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
A feasibility study for the dissemination and sales of renewable
energy technology in Miskitu communities on the Rio Grande de Matagalpa
on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua for Peace and Hope Trust, Inc. |
| Robyn Dalzen |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Education and Training for Tropical Ecosystem Conservation |
| John-Paul DeRosa |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Law and Rights-Based Development: Approaches to an Egyptian Refugee
Law |
| Lorraine Dongo |
| Home Country: |
Zimbabwe |
| Master's Paper: |
Clean Energy as a Poverty Reduction Tool in Zimbabwe's Extended
rural Electrification Program |
| Monica Rosaria D'Onofrio |
| Home Country: |
USA / Italy |
| Master's Paper: |
A Step in the Right Direction: Voices and initiatives of women
from Burma living in Thailand |
| Veronique E. Dupont |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
A Private Sector Strategy for the Distribution of Contraceptives
and Provision of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services in
Middle and Low Income Districts of Lima: Findings from the RedPlan
Salud Midwives' Network Pilot Project. |
| Izaskun Gaviria |
| Home Country: |
Spain |
| Master's Paper: |
Lessons from Cuba: Natural Disaster Prevention,
Mitigation and Recovery |
| Raja El Habti |
| Home Country: |
Morocco |
| Master's Paper: |
Muslim Women's Human Rights Between Universal Values and Cultural
Specificity |
| Joel Hirst |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Managing for Development in a Relief Situation: Bridging the Gap |
| Blerinda Idrizi |
| Home Country: |
Albania |
| Master's Paper: |
Citizen Participation in Education Issues: Literature review and
case studies from the experience of World Education Inc. |
| Anderson Master Kamwendo |
| Home Country: |
Malawi |
| Master's Paper: |
Community-Based Care for Orphaned Children in Malawi: A cost effective
and culturally appropriate alternative to the institutional-based
care approach |
| Annette M. Karenzi |
| Home Country: |
Rwanda |
| Master's Paper: |
Farmers' associations and development institutions: The potential
for micro-enterprise in Rwanda food security programs. |
| James A. Keough |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Improving the Quantity and Quality of Official National Statistics
in Sub-Saharan Africa: A World Bank Consultation |
| Ayu Ketema |
| Home Country: |
Ethiopia |
| Master's Paper: |
Intellectual Property Rights, Food and Poverty in Ethiopia |
| Amanda Kiessel (E-mail: akiessel@hotmail.com) |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Green Tea Revolution: Shifting to Sustainable Agriculture in the
Buffer Zone of the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, Sri Lanka |
| Update: |
Pursuing a Ph.D. through the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable
Food Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz. |
| Kabir Kumar |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Developing a Qualitative Evaluation Survey of Community-Based NGOs
in India |
| Naomi Lambertson |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Challenges to Building an Advocacy Program: The Case of Oxfam America
Supporting Indigenous Organizations in the American Basin |
| Zakayo Lejipis Lenawamuro |
| Master's Paper: |
Kenya |
| Master's Paper: |
Extending Microfinance Approaches (Savings) to Small-Scale Agricultural
and Pastoral Farmers |
| Diana Marginean |
| Home Country: |
Romania |
| Master's Paper: |
The impact of decentralization on delivery of social services:
A case study on the Minimum Guarantee Program in Romania |
| James Martin |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Child Labour in Europe and Central Asia: Problem and Response |
| Michelle M. Menard |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Marketplace: Handwork of India -- An Analysis of a Fair Trade Organization
in Bombay, India. |
| Juliet Nakyazze |
| Home Country: |
Uganda |
| Master's Paper: |
Dynamics of Transforming and NGO Into a Regulated and Supervised
Microfinance Institution |
| Kaushalya Nawaratne |
| Home Country: |
Sri Lanka |
| Master's Paper: |
Government Approach Towards Poverty Alleviation in Sri Lanka: Important
Aspects of the Program and Introduction to Participatory Monitoring
and Evaluation as an Important Component for the Program |
| Thien Duc Nguyen |
| Home Country: |
Vietnam |
| Master's Paper: |
A Study on Determinations of Internal Migration of Workers from
Central Region to Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam |
| Nghi D.P. Nguyen (Michou) |
| Home Country: |
Vietnam |
| Master's Paper: |
A Study of the Kebithigollewa Community-Based Organization Capacity
Strengthening Project: A Project Implementation by SEWA LANKA Foundation,
Sri Lanka |
| Sabina Panth |
| Home Country: |
Nepal |
| Master's Paper: |
Community Participation: Rhetoric or Reality? A World Bank study
of local participation for poverty reduction |
| Emilie Parry |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
From Conflict to Cease Fire: An NGO's Role in a Transitioning
Society: Sri Lanka and the Sewa Lanka Foundation |
| Lesley Perlman |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Education for Sustainable Development: Training the Current and
Next Generations |
| Walinda Kanyama Phiri |
| Home Country: |
Malawi |
| Master's Paper: |
Inner-city Blues and Development: The Role of racial identity/relations
- the expereince of five low income communities in Mobile, Alabama |
| Attjala Roongwong |
| Home Country: |
Thailand |
| Master's Paper: |
Collaborative Management of Protected Areas: Experience from some
Initiatives in Thailand |
| Chandan Kumar Samal |
| Home Country: |
India |
| Master's Paper: |
Migration: A Livelihood Strategy in Semi-Arid Areas -- Case Study
of Two Districts of A.P., India |
| Jeanne Catalina Santamaria |
| Home Country: |
Colombia |
| Master's Paper: |
Illicit Crops and the Environment: Concerns of coca cultivation,
production and elimination in the Andean region and the effects on
Forest |
| Srdjan Stojanovic |
| Home Country: |
Yugoslavia |
| Master's Paper: |
Development Propects of Georgia, Caucasus: In the context of globalization
and contemporary intra-state conflicts |
| Ghulam Mustafa Talpur |
| Home Country: |
Pakistan |
| Master's Paper: |
Advanced Study: What Went Wrong with Economic Growth in Pakistan
during the 1990's |
| Update: |
Currently working as a project coordinator for WWF-Pakistan in the "Indus for All Programme." |
| E-mail: |
talpur65@yahoo.com |
| Yeshey W. Tamang |
| Home Country: |
Bhutan |
| Master's Paper: |
A study of the role of community traning programs in building human
capacity/capability in rural Pakistan |
| Clare E. Bressani Tanko |
| Home Country: |
USA |
| Master's Paper: |
Vote Solar: Implementing Renewable Energy at the Municipal Level
in the United States |
| Efrem Tesfai |
| Home Country: |
Eritrea |
| Master's Paper: |
Role of Education for Poverty Alleviation in Eritrea (with particular
emphasis on Gash Barka Region) |
| Eiichi Umekita |
| Home Country: |
Japan |
| Master's Paper: |
Development of small-scalefood processing enterprises in Tanzania:
Self-efforts and possible assistance |
| Piseth Vann |
| Home Country: |
Cambodia |
| Master's Paper: |
The Mekong River Basin Development and Poverty Alleviation Program |
| Faustin K. Zihiga |
| Home Country: |
Rwanda |
| Master's Paper: |
Fighting Poverty in Post Conflict Societies: A microfinance point
of view -- The experience of URWEGO microfinance institution in Rwanda |
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