RENEE BARRON
Renee spent her summer in Haiti with Habitat for Humanity. Her work focused on supporting Habitat’s strategic planning process by studying the historical, environmental, cultural and political characteristics of the Haitian context. In addition, she designed an education program to help Habitat’s donors gain a better understanding of the organization’s work in Haiti as a way of promoting long-term support and advocacy.​ While in Haiti, Renee also worked with the CDC and Oxfam to manage a project designed to improve the process of transporting water from centralized kiosks to individual households.

 MIAN CHENG
Mian spent her summer working with the World Food Programme (WFP) in Malawi. She was part of the stunting prevention team, working on a program initiated by the government of Malawi and WFP that targets children under 2 and pregnant and lactating mothers to prevent chronic malnutrition. Mian was responsible for developing tools for monitoring the Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) component of the program. In addition, she conducted interviews and focus groups with project managers and frontline workers to develop tools to improve SBCC implementation on the ground. ​ 

 SAMANTHA COLLINS AND ALEXIS COPPOLA
Samantha and Alexis spent their summer in the Banado Sur of Asuncion, Paraguay. The Banado Sur is an informally settled community on the river floodplains occupied by approximately 100,000 people. During their time in Paraguay, Alexis and Sam analyzed the barriers and enabling factors that shape access to and experience of university education for students from the community by using a qualitative research approach. The project was conducted in collaboration with Mil Solidarios, a local grassroots non-profit organization operating in the Banado Sur.  

 HANNAH COX
Hannah worked with CARE India, on a program for smallholder women farmers of Scheduled Castes and Tribes in Orissa, India, conducting a qualitative midterm review. For the review, Hannah interviewed women in self-help groups as well as their spouses and community leaders. Through these interviews, program beneficiaries were able to self-define and express their own ideas about empowerment. Hannah trained Pathways field staff in qualitative data collection and field staff trained her in the local language, Oriya.

 BROOKE ESTES
Brooke spent her summer working in Riobamba, Ecuador with EkoRural, an Ecuadorian NGO associated with Groundswell International that focuses on food sovereignty and ecologically friendly farming practices in the Andes. She completed a stakeholder mapping project in which she identified, interviewed, and assessed potential partners to involve in developing local food systems. She also completed a pilot initiative in which she facilitated local farmers' sale of products directly to a restaurant in Riobamba. In addition, Brooke documented experiences with other organizations on which EkoRural might model future activities. 

 FALLON FRAPPIER
Fallon spent the summer in Musanze, Rwanda working for Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International in partnership with Emory's Center for Global Safe Water and Emory's Global Health Institute. She organized a pilot competition in which primary and secondary students were invited to submit stories that informed the community about the social context, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of young people relative to water, sanitation, and hygiene issues.​ Next summer, Fallon plans to work with DFGFI to expand participation in the competition and adapt the winning story into a radio broadcast.

 JOANNA GALARIS
Joanna spent 10 weeks in Vietnam conducting research on intimate partner violence as part of an interdisciplinary Emory Global Health Institute team in Mỹ Hào district and Hanoi. Partnering with the Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population, a community-based NGO, Joanna and her team designed, implemented and analyzed qualitative research to enhance the efficacy of current anti-violence programs and to inform future programs. In addition, Joanna conducted participatory workshops on qualitative methods for CCIHP staff and students at the Hanoi School of Public Health.

 LAUREN GODFREY
Lauren worked with CARE Malawi as a mid-term review intern for the Pathways program, an agriculture and women's empowerment program. She assisted with qualitative research about the program's impact. Lauren helped with sampling; interviewed couples as well as community-based trainers; and was part of the data analysis and report writing team. Pathways is a "learning lab" for CARE Malawi, and along with two colleagues, Lauren presented the preliminary findings to the country office in order for the research team to receive feedback and discuss overall programming implications for CARE Malawi.

 ANNAMARIA HAJDUK
Annamaria worked with CARE on a maternal and child nutrition project in Ethiopia. She led research design, data collection and analysis for a study in the Amhara region, where she worked with CARE staff to gather information about environmental sanitation conditions and behaviors which may contribute to high rates of stunting and anemia. They observed mothers and children under age two in household environments and interviewed parents and community health workers. She presented a report and recommendations to CARE's regional and national field offices in Ethiopia and to CARE staff at their headquarters in Atlanta.

 SARAH HARLAN
Sarah worked with Save the Children as a Monitoring and Evaluation Fellow in Bangladesh. She developed data collection tools to report on the School Health and Nutrition aspects of Save the Children's internal primary school monitoring protocol and an international school health M&E framework. She worked with a team to test a suite of tools in 21 primary schools in Meherpur district. Based on the responses in these pilot settings, she refined the data collection tools and made recommendations about future use, expansion and adaptation for internal and external reporting. 

 KATE JACKSON
Kate spent the summer in Colombia working with the Escuela Nueva global education movement. She conducted research on academic achievement and helped to identify and adapt monitoring and evaluation instruments that will implemented into 6th grade classrooms around the globe. She represented Escuela Nueva at the Brookings Institute's Learning Metric Task Force 2.0 meetings in Bogota, helping to design a Global Citizenship education framework and indicators for Post-2015 UN Development Agenda. She also conducted program design trainings for Escuela Nueva staff in Spanish.

 AMIHAN JONES
Amihan spent the summer in Uganda working as the monitoring and evaluation intern for Habitat for Humanity International’s project “Building Assets, Unlocking Access,” which aims to expand housing microfinance in Kenya, Uganda and Ghana. Amihan was responsible for improving monitoring and evaluation systems for each country team, including revising baseline surveys for pilot implementation. She also worked with financial service partners to develop monitoring and evaluation criteria for various stakeholders, and participated in the annual planning meeting for the project held in Nairobi.

 APOSTOLOS KALANTZIS
Apostolos worked in Haiti with the Thomas Food Project, an initiative supported by the United Methodist Church Communication for Development (UMCOM) program. The project began provides water filtration, solar power, and computer technology. Apostolos conducted a project evaluation through classroom observations and interviews with teachers, principals, students, and community members. He assessed how computer labs were being used in two schools - the Thomas Methodist School and the School of Hope in nearby Sous Rigole - and documented impacts on educational outcomes.

 JULIE KEDROSKE AND CLAUDIA LANGFORD
Julie and Claudia worked with the International Water Management Institute in Ethiopia. They spent the summer working closely with researchers to collect baseline social and ecosystem services information to be used to evaluate the socio-economic impact of a new intervention aimed to provide alternative seed varieties and fertilizer to local smallholders, in order to reduce dependence on resource-depleted, communal grazing lands. The survey combined quantitative and qualitative approaches and integrated participatory research methods, such as community mapping.

 NATHAN KENNEDY, JILLIAN KENNY AND BIRUH ZEGEYE
Nathan, Jillian and Biruh worked with CARE/Global Water Initiative in East Africa to evaluate the Learning and Practice Alliance (LPA) framework. The LPA is a multi-sector, multi-stakeholder platform that is using participant-led research to inform interventions related to smallholder agriculture. Jillian evaluated an LPA in northern Uganda, while Nathan and Biruh worked in northern Ethiopia. The students conducted more than 50 interviews and focus groups with farmers, government officials, researchers, and GWI EA staff. They collaborated on a report analyzing the LPAs, which will improve the current LPAs and inform the future application of the LPA model. View the report. 

 PAUL KENNEDY
Paul worked with Joint Aid Management (JAM) in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he assisted with monitoring and evaluation of nutritional programs for children attending Early Childhood Development Centers (ECDs) around the city. Paul also organized a participatory development workshop in the township of Itsoseng, to elicit information from community members, government officials, and other NGOs working in the township for the “ground-up” design of a development project. Paul also produced a range of GIS resources for the organization to use and conducted a GIS training for JAM staff members.

 LHAMOTSO LAMAOCUO
Lhamotso spent her summer working as the coordinator of three social entrepreneurial workshops at Tibetan Village Project. The workshops were conducted as part of the Tibetan Social Entrepreneurship Initiative (TSEI), a project that aims to apply market-based solutions to social, cultural, economic and environmental issues in the Tibetan plateau. Lhamo was responsible for selecting candidates for the workshops, coordinating logistics, conducting business assessments in collaboration with the Conscious Business Consulting Company in Chengdu, supporting business plan development, and evaluating the workshop.

 CAITLIN MCCOLLOCH
Caitlin worked with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Ecuador to help coastal communities adapt to climate change. Working with El Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno El Niño, (CIIFEN), a TNC partner organization, and with project participants, Caitlin designed and conducted a preliminary evaluation based on interviews with project participants and developed a graphic tool to track progress on project activities. Caitlin also organized a community outreach activity to support TNC's initiatives in the region.

 MORGAN MERCER
Morgan served as a qualitative research scholar with CARE's Pathways program in both Mali and Tanzania. Pathways aims to empower women farmers and enhance their food security through sustainable agriculture. As part of a multi-country team conducting a midterm evaluation of the program, Morgan assisted in training, data collection and qualitative data analysis. She also developed a report on the lessons learned during the midterm evaluation process in Mali that was shared with other Pathways country teams to inform their own assessment processes.

 CHARLOTTE NEWMAN
Charlotte spent her summer working as a monitoring and evaluation intern with CARE in Ghana. She assisted with a mid-term review of the Pathways to Empowerment program, which aims to achieve women's empowerment through sustainable agriculture. Throughout the summer she facilitated the training of the data collection team, performed interviews and focus group discussions in four rural villages, and undertook qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data.​

 KUNAL PATEL
Kunal spent the summer in Tanzania with an interdisciplinary research team sponsored by Emory University’s Global Health Institute. The team conducted research in the Tanga and Morogoro Regions to better understand how land and water conflicts can be addressed in ways that also promote health, nutrition, and gender equity. Kunal and his team contributed to a qualitative study of dairy and livestock systems carried out in collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute and focused on maternal and child health, land policy, gender, and economic livelihood issues among transient and settled cattle-keeping communities.

 WINNETTE RICHARDS
This summer, Winnette worked with the Millennium Villages Project Bonsaaso Cluster in the Amansie West District of Ghana. Winnette assessed the effect of artisanal mining on Bonsaaso’s economy; the impact of increased mining activity on the MVP’s health and education interventions; and the prevalence of child labor. She conducted interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders, including local miners and mine owners, community leaders and members, local government officers, children and MVP staff. Her research will inform the work of the MVP and the Amansie West District Assembly.

 TSEWANG RIGZIN
Over the summer, Tsewang was an intern with the Federation of Tibetan Co-operatives India(FTCI), based in Bangalore, India. Under the supervision of FTCI senior staff, he conducted an independent and comprehensive study of Tibetan entrepreneurs in India. The study, based on survey research in four Tibetan settlement areas in India, sought to better understand Tibetan entrepreneurial community, identify factors that are an impediments to economic self-reliance, and recommend development interventions to address these factors. His report received widespread media attention in the Tibetan diaspora.

 TAYLOR SPICER
Taylor worked with the Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security program, a long-term interdisciplinary research initiative of the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR), as the Gender and Participatory Action Research Methods Fellow. She worked on a Toolbox of participatory methods for gathering information about how gender affects farmers' capacity to adapt to climate change. Taylor and her team tested the research tools in eastern Kenya and then traveled to northern Ghana (West Africa) where she collaborated with CARE staff to cross-test the tools in a different context. An official launch of the Toolbox took place in Nairobi in October 2014.

 JACOB WOOD
Jacob helped oversee the Emory Global Health Institute – China Tobacco Control Project in China. Fluent in Chinese and familiar with the country’s cultural and political landscape, he assisted sub-national government health officials in 6 Chinese cities on designing and implementing city-wide smoke-free programs. He led efforts to establish a partnership with Kunming Medical University to conduct qualitative research examining factors in farmers’ crop selection. The results were shared with national and international health experts and the Chinese government to inform future tobacco control efforts in China.

 WENLU YE
Wenlu served as a GLOBE (Growing Leaders On Behalf of the Environment) intern with The Nature Conservancy in China. In this capacity, she worked on a project on the China-Latin American Countries Innovation Lab for Sustainable Hydropower and designed a communication strategy for the Ecological Fishery Project of the Three Gorges Reservoirs. She also collected water/soil samples and interviewed local government officials about the Zhejiang Water Source Conservation Program - Longwu Reservoir Project. Drawing on these experiences, Wenlu produced a report for the China Center for Sustainable Hydropower.