The student teams in SIPA’s Workshop in Development Practice have been working this year with twenty clients in over twenty-five countries. Their cutting-edge projects support social entrepreneurship, inclusive finance, digitalization and technology, smallholder agriculture, gender, education, health, migration and refugee assistance, public sector innovation, sustainable supply chains and urban transport. The teams will present highlights of their work in a conference at SIPA on April 25 and 26. Workshop clients, faculty advisors, members of the Columbia/SIPA community, SIPA alumni and the general public are warmly invited and encouraged to attend any sessions of interest.
The Workshop in Development Practice is sponsored by the Economic and Political Development Concentration. This year's workshop clients include: Asian Women Social Entrepreneurs Network (Myanmar and Vietnam), Development Alternatives Inc. (Haiti), EA Consultants (Mexico), East-West Management Institute and Open Development Initiative (Cambodia), Fundacion Corona (Colombia), Global Partners for Development (Uganda), Global Reporting Initiative (Peru), Hello Future (Kurdistan, Iraq), Inter-American Development Bank (Belgium, Japan and Singapore), International Organization for Migration (Tunisia and Egypt), Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations (Kenya), Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (Brazil), Natura Cosmetics S.A. (Brazil), Orbis International (China and Mongolia), Pencils of Promise (Laos), Self-Employed Women's Association (India), United Nations Development Programme (Georgia), United Nations Development Programme (Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon), United Nations Capital Development Fund (Laos), and WeRobotics (Panama and Tanzania).
