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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

MA Class Graduated 2006

Milanga Abeysuriya

Home Country: Sri Lanka
Master's Paper: Land and Poverty: Exploring the Links Between Land Policy and Poverty in Sri Lanka
Teddy Agwang
Home Country: Uganda
Master's Paper: Stigma and Discrimination Related to HIV/AIDS: An Analysis of the Relevance and Implications of a Human-Rights Base Approach to Mitigating the Impacts of HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma and Discrimination, and its applicability for Uganda
Heath Arensen
Home Country: USA / Kenya
Master's Paper: Creating an Organizational Culture of Empowerment in Post-Conflict Sudan
Andrea Bertello
Home Country: Italy
Master's Paper: The Mechnisms Supporting REnewable Energy in the European Electricity Sector: Their Public Cost and Their Impact on Wind Energy Development
Update:  Working in London for New Energy Finance, in the field of consultancy in the renewable energy sector: www.newenergyfinance.com.
Paul Bertler
Home Country: USA / Wisconsin
Master's Paper: Designing and Implementing a Monitoring and Evaluation System for Develompent Education Programs at Heifer International's Overlook Farm
Chanthachone Chanthakhot
Home Country: Laos
Master's Paper: Views of Humanitarian Assistance Reflected in the Challenges of Providing Humanitarian Assistance, and Result IMpacts on the Capacity to Contribute to Peace, in Modern Afghanistan
Namgyal Chonzom
Home Country: Tibetan Exile Community in Dharamsala/India
Master's Paper: Chinese Government's Population Transfer Policy and Its Impact on the Tibetan Population
Brian Cohen
Home Country: USA/Maryland
Master's Paper: Developing a Rationale for Conserving the Mau Forest Complex, Kenya
Chad Conlin
Home Country: USA/Massachusetts
Master's Paper: The Impacts of a Market-Based Growth Paradigm on Development Outcomes: The Cambodian Example
Madjiguene Diop
Home Country: USA / Senegal
Master's Paper: Progress Toward Achieving the Millennium Development Goal for Water and Sanitation: The Case of Senegal
Meschack Earnshaw
Home Country: Swaziland
Master's Paper: Poverty Alleviation Through Linkages: Microfinance, Business Development Services and Financial Institutions in Swaziland
Beth Felker
Home Country: USA / Texas
Master's Paper: Change from Within: The Empowerment Approach Towards Sustainable Health and Development Advances
Katherine Folasa
Home Country: USA/California
Master's Paper: Community Development in Hawai'i: How Colonization Affects Hawai'i and Possibilities for Future Partnerships
Aki Furukawa
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Challenging the Existing Idea of Gender Mainstreaming: the Experience of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency, Fiji
Mario Gutierrez
Home Country: Bolivia
Master's Paper: Nutritional Status of Children in Bolivia: Does Land Ownership Matter?
Update: Research Fellow at the Inter-American Development Bank and Chair of CONEXIO journal.
Cedric Hananel
Home Country: France
Master's Paper: From Preventive to Adaption Measure to Climate Change: What Could HInder the Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technologies in the UNESCO Seaflower Archipelago, Columbia?
Eun Jung Huh
Home Country: South Korea
Master's Paper: Understanding the Situation of ECCE Education in Bangladesh by Analyzing the Case of World Vision Bangladesh Preschool Programs
Magano Ickua
Home Country: Namibia
Master's Paper: Gender Equality and Sustainable Development: Findings from the Water and Sanitation Sector
Scott Isbrandt
Home Country: USA/Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Design and Integration of Appropriate Non-Formal Education Strategies in Senegal
Nicole Jacobs
Home Country: USA/Iowa
Master's Paper: Expanding Microfinance Services in Lebanon
Surabhi Jain
Home Country: India
Master's Paper: High-Wage, HIgh-Demand Occupations for Low-Income Women: Barriers and Strategies
Aziz Jan
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. as a Learning Organization
Tanya Javed
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: Efforts to Positively Impact the Decision of Poor Households to Send Their Children to School: Our Strengths, Limitations and a New Alernative
Otis Johnson
Home Country: Liberia
Master's Paper: Microfinance and Government Partnerships: The Opportunities Industrialization Centers International Approach
Nurlan Karybekov
Home Country: Kyrgyzstan
Master's Paper: Issues Implementing a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System in the Kyrgyz Republic for Public Administration: a Readiness Assessment
Bella Kovner
Home Country: Israel
Master's Paper: Education and the Fight Against Child Trafficking and Exploitation in Cambodia
Jennifer Kovolski
Home Country: USA/Maryland
Master's Paper: Can Computer Technology be an Effective Source of Empowerment in the Education of Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Julia Kucherova
Home Country: Russian Federation
Master's Paper: Impacts of the Labor Market Reform on Employment and Labor Rights in Argentina
Alok Kumar
Home Country: India
Master's Paper: How Microfinance Can Be Used as an Effective Tool to Alleviate Poverty in a Country Like India, and What is the Role of Private Sector to Achieve this Goal?
Aili Langseth
Home Country: USA/Illinois
Master's Paper: Democracy and Development in Ethiopia: International Assistance for the 2005 National Elections
Quanbai Li
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: Alternatives for Conserving Alpine Ecosystems: The Case of Sanjiangyuan Park, Quinghai-Tibet Plateau
Ignatius Makumba
Home Country: Zambia
Master's Paper: An Evaluation of Participatory Forest Management in Zambia: A Case Study of Joint Forest Management in Lukangaba Local Forest of Mansa District
Javed Malik
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: Good Governance and Development: IN Search of a Model for Pakistan
Kathleen Martin
Home Country: USA/Pennsylvania
Master's Paper: The Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement and the Practical Application to the Tsunami Recovery Program of the American Red Cross
Stacey Martin
Home Country: USA/New York
Master's Paper: The Harshest Gender Realities: assessing the Sexual Reproductive Health Needs of HIV Positive Females
Nozomi Mizuno
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Real Analysis of FINCA Tanzania-Potential of Village Banking Method
Carlos Montero
Home Country: Belize
Master's Paper: Bridging the Poverty Gap: Potential for and Obstacles to MicroEnterprise Development in Benque Viejo, Belize
Uyapo Mosarwa
Home Country: Bostswana
Master's Paper: Analysis of HIV/AIDS Interventions in Botswana and Comparative Review with Other Countries
Tate Munro
Home Country: USA/Rhode Island
Master's Paper: Fighting Poverty with Profits in West Africa: The Value Chains Approach to Driving and Sustaining Economic Growths That Reduce Poverty
Update: Working as Program Officer for EnterpriseWorks/VITA in Washington, D.C. munrot@enterpriseworks.org
www.enterpriseworks.org
Fighting Poverty with Profit
Click to view recent New York Times article (.pdf)
Ronald Mutasa
Home Country: Zimbabwe
Master's Paper: Building the Capacity of NGOs to Design and Deliver Effective Economic Programs for Mitigating the Impact of HIV/AIDS and Economic Development Programs
Belinda Njiru
Home Country: Kenya
Master's Paper: Achieving Socio-Economic Development and POverty Alleviation in East and Southern Africa: Do Women in Politics Make a Difference?
Shunna Norsang
Home Country: Tibetan Community in China
Master's Paper: The Role of International NGOs in Tibet with a Case Study of the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF)
Yungju Oh
Home Country: USA/California
Master's Paper: Partnership Practices, Capacity Development, and Local Civil Society Organizations in Rwanda
Nicholas Ong'om
Home Country: Tanzania
Master's Paper: Scaling Up Micro-Finance Practice for Poverty Aleeviation: The Case of Tanzania
Ankur Patel
Home Country: USA/Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Parental Decision Making, Spousal Bargaining Power and Child Health: Evidence from the Bolivian Amazon
Elizabeth Petheo
Home Country: USA/Minnesota
Master's Paper: United States Asylum Law, the Definition of "Terrorism-Related Grounds" and a Rights-Based Approach: How Can We Move Toward Procedural Fairness in United States Asylum Law When We Define "Terrorism-Related Grounds"?
Update: Working in the Agriculture and Rural Development section of the World Bank.
Chloe Puett
Home Country: USA/Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Creating a Sustainable, Streamlined Monitoring and Evaluation System for Sustainable Livelihoods at Oxfam (India) Trust's North India Regional Office
Hoang Duc Quyen
Home Country: Vietnam
Master's Paper: Hunger Eradication and Food Security for Ethnic Minotirities: a Case of Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
Andrianavalona Ratsitohara
Home Country: Madagascar
Master's Paper: Determinants Affecting the Demand for Publicly Provided Health Care Services in Albania
Selina Saaka
Home Country: Ghana
Master's Paper: An Assessment of Evaluation Practices of NGOs in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Rural Northern Ghana
Rhoderick Samonte
Home Country: Philippines
Master's Paper: Conserving and Governing Biodiversity: The CBD vs. The Trips Debate and the Philippine Experience
Melissa Scudo
Home Country: USA/Colorado
Master's Paper: Effects of Group versus Individual Liability on Client Retention and Program Expantion: Preliminary Results from a Randomized Trial in Leyte, Philippines
Maniola Sejrani
Home Country: Albania
Master's Paper: Determinants Affecting the Demand for Publicly Provided Health Care Services in Albania
Malini Sakhar
Home Country: USA/Maryland
Master's Paper: Addressing Root Causes of Gender-Based Violence in Karnataka, India
Carlos Seminario
Home Country: Peru
Master's Paper: An Evaluation of a Program with Nutritional Objectives in Peru: The Case of the Baso de Leche Program
Moses Sitati
Home Country: Kenya
Master's Paper: Using the National Budget to Advance the MDGs in Kenya: Enabling Empowerment and Participation
Gang Song
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: Identifying China's Regional Inequality: Education as a Drive of Economic Development
Lilian Su
Home Country: Taiwan
Master's Paper: Who is in Charge? Political Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in the People's Republic of China
Akemi Takahashi
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Advance Study and Directed Research on The Strategies and Role of Women's Unions in the Informal Sector--A Case Study of the Empowerment Approach of SEWA in India
Vanessa Tan
Home Country: Philippines
Master's Paper: Building Assets of Low-Income Women Towards a Pathway to Self-Sufficiency and Economic Mobility
Nega Teweldemedhin
Home Country: Eritrea
Master's Paper: Linking Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth: Microeconomic Analysis of Expanding Artisanal Fisher to Enhance Poor Coastal Villagers' Income in Eritrea
Nathalie Tinguery
Home Country: Burkina Faso
Master's Paper: Conservation and Wise Use of Wetlands in Southern Africa: The Interface Between the Local Community-Based Wetland Resources Management and the Formal Wetland Policies, Laws and Institutions -- Case Studies in South Africa and Zambia
Meghan Trombly
Home Country: USA/Vermont
Master's Paper: Building Leadership and Empowerment in Young U.S. Women. The Strong Women, Strong Girls Program Model
Carmela Ulloa
Home Country: Costa Rica
Master's Paper: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Inter-American System: Drafting the Social Charter of the Americas
Iftikhor Vatanshoev
Home Country: Tajikistan
Master's Paper: Innovations in Microfinance: Lessons to Learn from Best Practices to Increase Sustainability, Outreach and Impact on Poverty of MFIs in Tajikistan
Dandan Wang
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: Promoting Positive Development of Rural-to-Urban Migrant Youth in China
Emmy Wassajja
Home Country: Uganda
Master's Paper: The Role of the Local communities in the Conservation of Forest Resources in Mabira Forest, a Case Study of Najjembe subcounty Mukono District (Uganda)
David White
Home Country: USA/Florida
Master's Paper: Disaster Relief/Development Aid Coordination Issues in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka
James Wirth
Home Country: USA/Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Durable goods and Child Nutrition in the Bolivian Amazon
Maoti Xia
Home Country: Tibetan Community in China
Master's Paper: NGOs' Development Approach in China: Capacity Building
Titi Yakubu
Home Country: Nigeria
Master's Paper: Desertification in Nigeria
Sarah Zipkin
Home Country: USA/Alaska
Master's Paper: Kallari Association, Ecuador Economic Stability of a Small Cooperative: Fair Trade, Organizational Structure, and a Changing Global Market
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