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Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP) Call for Applications: Executive Director
Posted 12/8/11
Location: Bamako, Mali and United States
MHOP’s mission is to empower urban communities in Mali, West Africa, to improve maternal and child health. We do so by: 1) fostering the agency of residents and community structures to mobilize to address community health needs, 2) promoting health education, prevention, and early care seeking, and 3) enhancing financial, geographic, and cultural access to health care for poor families.
Currently we operate in a peri-urban community called Sikoro-Sourakabougou on the outskirts of Bamako. Our interlocking programs include community mobilizing training and support, maternal and child health services, a community health workers team, a health education radio show, and support for a community-managed clinic.
As MHOP transitions out of a start-up phase, our Executive Director (ED) will shape our future as we deepen and expand our impact. The ED will lead our team in creating an organizational culture dedicated to social change while developing the capacity of individual team members and the organization as a whole. He or she will refine our programs to be increasingly participatory, facilitating a long-term process of locally led community development. The ED will lead expansion of our programs, ensure we have the resources required to do so, and develop alliances with other healthcare organizations.
For more details and to apply, visit: http://malihealth.org/ht/display/ArticleDetails/i/2452.
Brown LINK Award Program: Funding for summer internships
Formerly Brown Internship Award Program, BIAP
Posted 12/8/11
What’s new this year? Increased award amounts and nearly double the number of awards! Looking for funding for your unpaid or low-paying summer internship? Brown LINK can help!
Each year, Brown awards financial assistance to students pursuing unpaid or low-paying summer internships. These awards allow students to explore career options and engage in experiential learning activities outside the classroom. Students must secure an internship that is unpaid or that pays less than $1,000 before applying for funds. Priority is given to rising juniors and seniors, but all Brown undergraduates are encouraged to apply.
More information and application requirements and procedures can be found here. The application deadline is March 23, 2012 at 5pm.
Watson Institute & Swearer Center Summer 2012 Fellowships
Posted 12/1/11
Applications are now being accepted from eligible Brown undergraduates.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 2, 2012 at 5pm.
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Research Associate - The US Financial Diaries
Posted 11/2/11
The US Financial Diaries is looking for a research associate to help in analyzing data and drafting written publications - please send the notice attached to relevant people in your networks! Maybe a community partner or you know someone who might be good? The person would be based in Boston or New York City and work with us full-time, from January 2012 through June 2013. >Download the job description.
Anza Cart Entrepreneurship Fellowship: Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, January 3-23
Posted 10/24/11
In a year-long pilot, 30 Tanzanian families used the Anza Cart to carry basic necessities more efficiently, freeing time for women to start small businesses and children to attend school, and doubling their incomes. Now, we’re scaling that impact with our first container of 1000 carts this winter. In partnership with Brown, we have secured funding for a fellowship program to bring a group of 6 engineering and business students to Africa to experience social entrepreneurship in the field. You will work directly under the CEO, VP of Engineering, and Country Director to market and retail Anza Carts, conduct field research on the social impact of the carts, and develop improvements to Anza’s business model and cart design. To learn more, visit the website: http://www.anzacart.org/. To apply, send resume to Drew Durbin (drew@anzacart.org) and Prof. Hazeltine (barrett_hazeltine@brown.edu).
Brown International Scholars Program: Deadline 12/12
Posted 10/24/11
Make international studies an integral part of your academic experience. The Brown International Scholars Program (BISP) provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to make international studies an integral part of their Brown curriculum through independently-designed research projects. Each year, a group of up to twenty International Scholars receive awards to pursue scholarly interests over the summer months. Upon returning to Brown, Fellows meet regularly to reflect upon their experiences and the public value of their work.
Informational Session: Monday, 10/24, 4-5pm in Petterutti Lounge
http://www.brown.edu/about/administration/international-affairs/programs/brown-international-scholars-program-bisp
http://swearercenter.brown.edu/fellowships/bisp
César E. Chávez Fellowship
Posted 10/24/11
The Cesar Chavez Foundation is accepting applications for the Cesar E. Chavez Fellowship. A year-long fellowship available to recent college graduates interested in community and resource building, learning more about nonprofits, managing an after-school and summer program, supervising volunteers, and learning more about youth development. As a Cesar E. Chavez Fellow, you will have the unique opportunity to connect with underprivileged disenfranchised communities and partner with families, youth and teens to empower themselves and improve their quality of life. As a fellow you will oversee our ¡Si Se Puede! Learning Center programs (after-school & summer program), build and establish community resources, recruit and coordinate local volunteers, and develop curricula.
Since this is an AmeriCorps Program all CEC Fellowships will receive a living stipend, an Education Award/Scholarship upon the completion of their service, and FREE housing provided by the Cesar Chavez Foundation. www.cecfellowship.org
Summer Grants for African Students
Posted 10/24/11
The Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance is providing summer grants to young African students and recent graduates with entrepreneurial initiatives in Africa. Thanks to the Tony Blair Foundation, HEA Associates also have access to internship opportunities in the office of the Presidents of Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia, as well as a growing number of international and African companies. For more information, visit www.healliance.org.
Spring Break in Nicaragua: Renewable Energy & International Development
Posted 10/24/11
blueEnergy is an international non-profit that connects the unserved to clean water, energy, and other basic services to give people the opportunity to improve their own lives. This one-week immersion program explores different applications of renewable energy technologies in developing countries. Looking particularly at the Nicaraguan context, participants will explore first-hand the successes and challenges of successfully implementing sustainable development projects with renewable energy at the national and local level in Nicaragua. Participants will also have the opportunity to work on a research project of their choosing. Example research topics include, but are not limited to the following: development of offshore wind in Nicaragua, rural electrification for development, renewable energy technology transfers to rural communities, and financing renewable energy projects for rural household use and adaptation. Dates of Trips: March 11th-17th OR March 25th-31st; for more information, email emily.castello@blueenergygroup.org.
Opportunity with GlobeMed
Posted 10/3/11
I am writing to you from GlobeMed, a student-run non-profit organization based at 46 universities across the U.S. This year we added 15 new chapters to our network, one of which was at Brown. Unfortunately the Brown Chapter Founder made the decision to step down from her position. Thus, we are on the search once again for a Brown student who is dedicated to building a partnership to improve health in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya and contributing to a student movement for global health equity. Each of our university chapters partners with a unique grassroots organization in one of 18 countries. The Brown chapter was partnered with U-TENA, based in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. We are looking for students who have tremendous interpersonal skills, have a commitment to global health work, and are excited about being part of a network of more than 1,500 students. Interested students should contact Alyssa Smaldino at alyssa@globemed.org.
The Department Undergraduate Group (DUG)
The DS DUG is an organization lead by undergraduate DS concentrators serving the dual purpose of organizing DS-related campus-wide events and advocating for increased university resources to continue the expansion of the DS program.
In recent years, the DS DUG has organized debates, comparative panels, peer academic advising forums, student-faculty socials and mentoring for graduate and career opportunities in development. In 2008-2009 academic year, we were proud to launch a Development Studies Colloquium Series.
The DS Colloquium Series aims to bring together scholars and practitioners in panel form to share their expertise on a diverse range of pertinent development issues, including the impact of our nation's financial crisis on lesser developed countries, rapid urbanization, institutional corruption and the impact of migration on brain drain. The Series is unique in its engagement of both development scholars and practitioners to discuss topics of shared interest. Further, it will provide an unparalleled opportunity for students interested in development to share perspectives on their own personal research and receive simultaneous feedback from both ends of the development spectrum. More details to come soon!
Accomplishments of the DS DUG’s campus outreach and advocacy include the expansion of both faculty and course selections, including the permanent creation of the DS Program Director position and DS-specific courses in methodology, economics and a sophomore seminar.
The DS DUG leaders for the 2009-10 academic year are:
Ilana Nelson-Greenberg ('10)
Rebecca Kim (’10)
Yasmine Yu (’10)
For more information on upcoming events, getting involved, donating, suggesting or collaborating on an event and receiving peer concentration advising, please contact:
BrownDSDUG@gmail.com
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A Development Studies Reading List
What books do students of development read? A small and somewhat arbitrary list, to be updated.
Amartya Sen. Development as Freedom . 1999.
An argument for focusing on improving human capabilities (rather than just growth) in promoting development by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and philosopher.
Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyn Huber and John Stephens. Capitalist Development and Democracy . 1992.
The definitive study of the social and historical roots of democracy, with case studies of Europe , Latin America and the Carribean. It's the working class, stupid!
John Harriss. Depoliticizing Development . 2002.
How the World Bank appropriated and made a mess of an important social science concept - social capital.
Peter Evans. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation . 1999.
Why and how states matter for economic development, with case studies of Brazil , India and South Korea .
Arturo Escobar. Encountering Development: the making and unmaking of the Third World . 1995.
The seminal post-colonial critique of development as discourse and power.
James Ferguson. The Anti-politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho . 1994.
Foucault goes to Lesotho . A brilliant case study of a development project gone amuck, and why cattle aren't just cattle.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Death without Weeping: the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil . 1992.
Poverty is violence: a powerful and searing ethnography of gender, class and why babies die in the Northeast of Brazil.
James Scott. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance . 1985.
The ravages of capitalism as seen from below, and how peasants fight back and lose. In Malaysia .
James Scott. Seeing Like a State: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed . 1998.
The subtitle says it all. Beware the technocrats and weak civil societies.
Mahmood Mamdani. Citizen and Subject: decentralized despotism and the legacy of late colonialism . 1997.
Award winning exploration of the colonial roots of the democratic problem in sub-Saharan Africa .
Barrington Moore . Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: lord and peasant in the making of the modern world. 1967.
The classic study of the social origins of democracy. It's the peasantry, stupid!
Joel Migdal. Strong Societies and Weak States : state-society relations and state capabilities in the Third World . 1988.
Why is it so difficult to make the state work in much of the developing world? Paradigmatic.
Karl Polanyi. The Great Transformation. 1944.
What happens when markets are not restrained by social institutions?
The most important book of our times?
