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Graduates of the Programs in Sustainable International Development, both those from southern nations as well as those from the U.S. and Europe, have enhanced career opportunities and are currently working in development organizations in the U.S. and throughout the world. SID staff and faculty offer on-going career counseling for all graduates of the program.

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MA SID graduated in:
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 , 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

MS IHPM graduated in:
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008


Graduated May, 2004

Binioube Aleyao

Home Country: Togo
Master's Paper: Poverty Alleviation in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Maher Al-Frijat
Home Country: Palestine
Master's Paper: Managing for Successful Sustainable Development Outcomes: The Roles of Managers and Leaders Managing NGOs in Palestine
Gretchen McKenna Alther
Home Country: USA / New Hampshire
Master's Paper: Colombian Communities' Lessons of Peace and Grassroots Protagonism
Bibiana Irene Bangpuori
Home Country: Ghana
Master's Paper: Impact of Freedom from Hunger Credit with Education Project in Nandom, Ghana
Robert Barnett
Home Country: USA
Master's Paper: Causes Behind Paraguay's Street Boy Phenomenon
Jonathan Bauchet
Home Country: France
Master's Paper: Does it pay to educate borrowers?
Evidence from a randomized experiment in Peru
Brian Bean
Home Country: USA / Maryland
Master's Paper: Too Many People, Too Few Trees:
The Role of Community Groups in Urban Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration
Habiba Begum
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: Afghanistan: A Transition from Emergency to Relief & Rehabilitation Programs to Development: The Role of Humanitarian Organizations
Naima Benwakrim
Home Country: Morocco
Master's Paper: The Implementation of the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Morocco's Legal System 1993 - 2004
Medani Prasad Bhandari (Medini)
Home Country: Nepal
Master's Paper: Issues in the Sustainable Management of Protected Areas of Nepal: A Case Study of Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve / Buffer Zone
Maureen Biehl
Home Country: Chile
Master's Paper: Making Connections: A Social Network to Promote and Strengthen Social Capital of Latinas in Massachusetts
Marie-Astrid Blondiaux ( E-mail : mablondiaux@hotmail.com )
Home Country: Belgium
Master's Paper: Integrating a Rights-Based Approach to Development in UNDP Programming in Haiti
Update: Working in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) as a delegate for the International Comittee of the Red Cross.
Toby Bloom
Home Country: USA / Maryland
Master's Paper: Challenges to Successful Implementation of Sustainable Tourism in the Andean Region
Malick Ceesay
Home Country: The Gambia
Master's Paper: Humanitarian Relief and the Process of Building Civil Society Institutions in Iraq
Pashupati Chaudhary
Home Country: Nepal
Master's Paper: Ecological Restoration Approach to Biodiversity Conservation, Human Economy and Health: A Case Study of SeedTree
Riccardo Clerici
Home Country: Italy
Master's Paper: A Rights-Based Approach to Development for the Refugee Community in Egypt: The Role of Regugee Law, Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law
Amy Culbertson
Home Country: USA / Washington
Master's Paper: Using the Community Health Worker Model to Address Infant and Young Child Malnutrition: Medicina Social Comunitaria, Project concern International, Tijuana, Mexico
Jennifer Dreher
Home Country: USA / Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Institutional Responses to Violence Against Women in Ecuador: A Critical Analysis and Recommenations for the Future
Charlie Ehle
Home Country: USA / New York
Master's Paper: Food Aid, Food Security and the Impact on Relief and Development in Southern Sudan
Julieanna Elegant
Home Country: USA / Oregon
Master's Paper: Analysis of Gender-Specific Development Programs Conducted by the Coordinadora de Mujeres del Cibao in the Dominican Republic
Dalia Emara
Home Country: Egypt
Master's Paper: Household Determinants of Children's Schooling in Morocco
Sarah Figge
Home Country: USA / Minnesota
Master's Paper: Targeting Adolescents in India: A Reproductive Health Program Review
Vivien Gyuris
Home Country: Hungary
Master's Paper: Transforming into a Donor: Challenges and Possibilities for the New European Union Members States -- A Case Study of Hungary
Tseten Gyurmae
Home Country: Tibet / Tibetan Community in India
Master's Paper: Impact of a $ 1 million dollar loan for Economic Development of the Exile Tibetan Community in India
Update: Currently residing in Virginia.
George Scott Hasselmann
Home Country: USA / Illinois
Master's Paper: Urban Forestry as a Solution in Nicaragua
Mironda Heston
Home Country: USA / Illinois
Master's Paper: Haiti's Potomitan: The Role of Peasant Women in Haitian Society
Marion Howard
Home Country: USA / Colombia
Master's Paper: Population and Environment on Small Islands: A Case Study of San Andres Island, Colombia
Nguyen Thi Thu Huong
Home Country: Vietnam
Master's Paper: Institutional Capacity and Land Tenure in Vietnam
Jeanne Izabiliza
Home Country: Rwanda
Master's Paper: Women and Trauman in Post-Conflict Development: A New Consideration for Refugee Women from Different Africa Countries in South Africa
Sara Johnson-Steffey
Home Country: USA / Pennsylvania
Master's Paper: Institutional Legislative Drafting Theory and Methodology: A tool for civil society participation in democracy-building
Daniel Kagina
Home Country: Rwanda
Master's Paper: Youth and HIV/AIDS: The African Youth Dilemma
Agbedan Guillaume Kakanou
Home Country: Benin
Master's Paper: Towards the Progressive Elimination of Child Labour in Commercial Agriculture in West and Central Africa
Sharon Karni
Home Country: Israel
Master's Paper: Relations Between Local government Agencies and Environmental NGOs in Bolivia After a Decade of Decentralization
Sarah Atem Kima
Home Country: Cameroon
Master's Paper: Access Barriers to Health Care Services
Joseph Le Clair
Home Country: USA / Washington, D.C.
Master's Paper: Monitoring and Evaluation Review for Projects at World Learning
Zhao Ma
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: Modeling local governance, local economic development and social welfare at the municipal level in Bolivia
Alice N. Macharia
Home Country: Kenya
Master's Paper: Integrating Gender in Community Conservation and the Community Centered Conservation (CCC) Methodology: A Case Study of Mengame Reserve, Cameroon
Deana MacLachlin Becker
Home Country: USA / Massachusetts
Master's Paper: The Relevance of Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin American Development: A View from Costa Rica
Jessica L. Mann
Home Country: USA / Massachusetts
Master's Paper: The Impact of Capacity Building and Citizen Empowerment Projects on Decentralization in South Africa: Questioning the Methodologies for Evaluating Democracy Assistance
Betsy McCallon
Home Country: USA / Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Can a Gender-Focused Network Effectively Address Cross-Sectoral Issues? Examining the Networking Process, Gender and Ecotourism in Belize
Marisa Miodosky
Home Country: Argentina
Master's Paper: Rural household survival strategies and the risks of falling into poverty in Argentina
Shandana Khan Mohmand
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: Participation and Decentralisation in Pakistan
Jacopo Monzini
Home Country: Italy
Master's Paper: The Sharks of Bahia Las Minas
Victoria Mosimann
Home Country: USA
Master's Paper: An examiniation of Current Prospects for the Local Integration of Sudanese Urban Refugees in Cairo
Desmarita Murni
Home Country: Indonesia
Master's Paper: Indonesia Post September 11th: Human rights, Security and Foreign Aid
Aldo Natalizia
Home Country: Paraguay
Master's Paper: Why do street children leave their home in Paraguay? Socioeconomic determinants
Lucian Ng'andwe
Home Country: Zambia
Master's Paper: Transforming Zambia's Major Economic Institutions Using the Law
Keyllen Y. Nieto
Home Country: Colombia
Master's Paper: Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA): Challenges for Sustainable Development and Social Movements in Latin America
Godfred Ohene-Gyan
Home Country: Ghana
Master's Paper: Conflicts in Forest Management and Land Use: Assessment of Land Reform Policies on Forest Establishments Towards Sustainable Land Use Development in Ghana -- Case Study: Desiri Forest Reserve, Nkawie Forest Services District, Ashanti Region, Ghana
Adedoyin Onasanya
Home Country: Nigeria
Master's Paper: An Assessment of the European Union's Effort in Fostering Equitable International Cooperation and Social Justice for Developing Countries
Alpana Patel
Home Country: USA / Illinois
Master's Paper: Rights-Based Approach to Gender Equity and Sustainable Development in Africa
Matthew S. Preece
Home Country: USA / New York
Master's Paper: Community-based Conservation and Development: A Study of Theory and Practice in Southern India
Victor Prodigo
Home Country: Philippines
Master's Paper: Forest Governance: A Strategic Role for Winrock International
Kenneth Rampino
Home Country: USA / Massachusetts
Master's Paper: The Many-Headed Monster: Hunger in rural Guinea and the Africare Food Security Initiative -- A Case Study
Lindsey Stokes Rosenberg
Home Country: USA / New Jersey
Master's Paper: Finding its Place: A Case Study of an Organization Working to Systematize Planning and Evaluation Tools
Adan Ruiz Villalba
Home Country: Spain
Master's Paper: The Effects of Participation in Urban Environmental Planning: The experience of UN-HABITAT and Local Agenda 21 Program in Cuba
Nergui Sandag
Home Country: Mongolia
Master's Paper: The Impact of Microfinance Programs on Community Social and Economics Development: Case Study -- Poverty Reduction Program, UNDP, Kyrgyzstan Microfinance Component in Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan
Bonnie Shen
Home Country: USA / Minnesota
Master's Paper: Training and HIV/AIDS in China
Mia Siscawati
Home Country: Indonesia
Master's Paper: Women's Leadership and Women's Political Participation in Post Authoritarian Indonesia: How they affect livelihood of peasant women
Jonathan St. John
Home Country: USA / Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Coffee and Conservation: An Analysis of Conservation International's Coffee Strategy in Latin America
Bindu Sara Sunny
Home Country: India
Master's Paper: Addressing Needs, Recognizing Rights and Building Capacities: Analyzing Child Labor in Andhra Pradesh, India
Asep Sugih Suntana ( E-mail: asuntana@u.washington.edu )
Home Country: Indonesia
Master's Paper: Performance-Based and Third-Party Forest Certifications: Its Potential Implications to Resource Managers in the U.S.A.
Update: Enrolled in a doctoral program at the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Alissa Takesy ( E-mail: finpul@yahoo.com )
Home Country: Federated States of Micronesia
Master's Paper: The Cost-Effectiveness of a Community-based Decision Making Process and its Linkages under the Samoa Marine Biodiversity Protection and Management Project
Lobsang Tsering
Home Country: Tibet / Tibetan Community in India
Master's Paper: Sustainable Living for tibetan Refugees in India: Introducing Premaculture, Integrated Bio-systems and Ecological Designs
Lenka Vitkova
Home Country: Czech Republic
Master's Paper: Organizational Limitations to the Implementation of "Development Relief": A Case Study of People in Need Foudnation in Afghanistan
Jin Wang
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: The Strategic Creation of Total Quality Management Tools for Small or mid-Size NGOs
Pem Chuki Wangdi
Home Country: Bhutan
Master's Paper: Analyzing the Impacts of Integrated Conservation and Development Projects on Gender
Beth Williamson
Home Country: USA / New York
Master's Paper: Trade Liberalization: Past, Present and Future: The Effects on Food Industry Workers in the Western Hemisphere
Takashi Yasunobu
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Combating Human Trafficking in Cambodia: Establishing a Legal Environment for the Effective Counter Trafficking Measure
Update: Working with the NGO, Japan Team of Young Human Power, as a project coordinator for their building school project in Cambodia.
Oscar Zapata
Home Country: Ecuador
Master's Paper: Income inequality and deforestation: Evidence from small-scale, pre-industrial societies in the Bolivian lowlands
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