Public Affairs

Possible Internship Companies

Various Legal Placements, including:

• Büsing, Müffelmann & Theye
• DLA Piper
• Bird & Bird
• Luther
• BDP Bormann Demant & Partner
• Dentons
• Wagner Arbitration
• Much more!

Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Student responsibilities will vary depending on individual interest and experience.

Bogotá Cómo Vamos
Casa de la Mujer
Diana Wiesner: Arquitectura y Paisajes
El Foro Nacional por Colombia
Fundación Catalina Muñoz
Fundación Ideas para la Reconciliación
Redepaz
Sisma Mujer

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Bogotá Cómo Vamos

Company Description: Bogotá Cómo Vamos is an organisation that measures the quality of life in Bogotá through the analysis of technical indicators and citizen perception, with the aim to improve the quality of life for citizens in the city. With more than 20 years’ experience, they believe that measuring the quality of urban life is essential to know the progress, challenges, and perspectives of the city and to know how the government, private organizations and citizens contribute to everyone’s wellbeing.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Design of a monitoring strategy for accessibility in public transport and bicycles in Bogotá.
• Analysis of spatial data: TransMilenio GTFS (2019-2022) & Shapefiles of roads and bike paths of the Reference Map of the platform “Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Capital District”- IDECA (2019-2022)
• Analysis of survey data: Mobility Survey (2019), Large Integrated Household Survey (2019-2022), Multipurpose Survey (2017 and 2021), Citizen Perception Survey (2019 and 2022)
• Use & management of tools: ArcGIS & Conveyal Analysis

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Casa da la Mujer

Company Description: Intern Colombia is working in alliance with one of Colombia’s leading feminist NGOs. Our partner was founded in 1982, and their aim is help construct a Colombia with peace, social justice and with the equal and active participation of women. They have impacted over 90,000 Colombian women of different ethnicities and contribute to the strengthening of approximately 1,000 women’s organisations and groups across Colombia. Regularly they produce and publish research, documents and proposals related to Women’s Rights and raise awareness about multiple forms of discrimination that affect women and document injustices and cases of violence. Our partner has received and been nominated for numerous international and awards that recognize the incredible work they are doing in Colombia. Since 1982, they have promoted political dialogue as the tool for the termination of the internal armed conflict in Colombia and actively participated in the peace dialogue which led to Colombia’s Agreement to End Conflict and Build Peace between the national government and the FARC-EP.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Assisting the team by updating project documents in English and Spanish
• Research and some writing on Colombia related issues, including human rights, women’s rights, gender violence and post-conflict reconstruction
• Assisting with the preparations for research reports concerning levels of gender violence, displacement, human rights abuses, and other activities that may be taking place
• Global and regional news monitoring concerning women’s rights
• Assisting in the organization of events & workshops, and attending events & workshops
• Projects vary according to the intern’s area of expertise and/or interests, but generally include support in fundraising, monitoring systems, project/investigation and translations, and special project support

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Diana Wiesner: Arquitectura y Paisajes

Company Description: Intern Colombia is working in alliance with a leading architecture & design studio who has received various national awards and some of the most prestigious international awards in architecture. Our partner has worked on projects related to urban development, landscape design, environmental sustainability, commercial property and residential, among others. They have a strong focus on sustainable and ecological architecture.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• The Intern will support the Architecture & Design.
• Support Architecture & Design team, dependent upon level of experience and qualifications can lead on projects also, may participate in the development of design
• Support design team and ensure that the design intent is followed through all phases
• Use one or more design software (Adobe Suite, Autodesk, Rhino, etc.)
• Perform ad hoc analysis, review and/or or various special projects, as directed
• Assist in organization and generation of working drawings
• These tasks will be assigned as needed and to match the intern’s interests and background

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El Foro Nacional por Colombia

Company Description: The Foro Nacional por Colombia (National Forum for Colombia) is a non-governmental, non-profit civil organization that was founded in 1982 as an initiative of Colombian academics and researchers interested in contributing to the strengthening of democracy in Colombia, building peace, coexistence, diversity, plurality, and active citizenship. Following the ratification of the new Colombian Constitution in 1991, they opened new fields of work such as advising government entities on issues of management and public policies. Later in 2016, following the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian Government and the FARC, they have also orientated work to contributing to the construction of peace and coexistence in Colombia. The organisation works throughout Colombia and their principal activities include, but are not limited to; research, investigation and the publication of studies, advice and support for organizations, peacebuilding, reporting of political incidences and the dissemination of information, among others.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• The Intern will support the organization across all departments and projects vary by department, but generally include administrative, analytical, research and special project support. Other activities may include:
• Assisting the team by updating project documents in English and Spanish
• Research and some writing on Colombia related issues, including environmental conflicts; the internal armed conflict; peacebuilding, transitional justice, human rights, coexistence, among others.
• Assisting with the preparations for program activities, including events, workshops, publications, community visits and other activities that may be taking place during the internship placement
• Research on citizen involvement in public decision-making, current affairs within Colombian politics, anti-corruption, transparency, among others.
• Internal armed conflict: Implementation of the Peace Agreement, transitional justice, victims, peacebuilding, coexistence, among others.
• Citizen participation, citizen control mechanisms, anti-corruption mechanism and transparency.

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Fundación Catalina Muñoz

Company Description: Intern Colombia has partnered with an NGO that constructs housing for families in extreme poverty. Their main goal is to contribute to the reduction of the housing deficit in Colombia, and to improve housing. In the past 11 years, they have constructed more than 2,800 homes. They also work with individuals, families, and groups within the communities and manage social programs to improve Public Spaces. Our partner has recently launched a new Eco-spaces Project, this will emphasize agricultural production within Urban environments. These construction projects are undertaken with a strong social dimension.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Role #1: Technical

• The Intern will support the Technical team
• Supporting the technical team in the design, conceptual design, and model making of housing for the communities.
• Using programs like AutoCAD, PhotoScan, Revit, Rhino and Adobe Creative Apps.
• Facilitating discussions with special interest groups & key stakeholders
• Assistance in preparation of design presentations
• Collaborating with colleagues on projects
• Ensuring project delivery and quality control throughout
• Analyse strategies that help use to full capacity the materials used in the construction of housing for energetic and climatic sustainability
• These tasks will be assigned as needed and to match the intern’s interests and background

Role #2: Community Outreach

• The Intern will support the community outreach team.
• Cultivate strong community relationships with beneficiaries of the organisation
• Work alongside communities to help build new houses and improve public places
• Accompany community visits to meet with families and volunteer coordination
• Assistance in office administration
• Assistance in managing the coordination of volunteers for construction projects across Colombia
• Managing and updating volunteer databases
• These tasks will be assigned as needed and to match the intern’s interests and background

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Fundación para la Reconciliación

Company Description: We are working with an organization which contributes to the construction of peace in Colombia and the world by promoting a culture of care, forgiveness and reconciliation. They believe that it is not enough to resolve conflicts militarily or with the best official agreements, as peace is fragile. It is to ensure that victims and perpetrators forgive and reconcile in such a way that both advance in the construction of worthy life projects, while recovering three fundamental pillars of existence: the meaning of life, self-assurance and socialization. In 2006, the NGO received an Honorable Mention in the UNESCO Education for Peace Prize for its practical contributions and impact on the creation of a culture of coexistence and peace.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Assisting the team by updating project documents in English and Spanish
• Research and some writing on Colombia related issues, including the armed conflict, human rights, post-conflict reconstruction and International Law
• Assisting with the preparations for research reports concerning levels of violence, displacement, human rights abuses, and other activities that may be taking place
• Research on peacebuilding and the implementation of the Colombia’s Peace Agreement
• Projects vary according to the intern’s area of expertise and/or interests, but generally include administrative, analytical, research and special project support

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REDEPAZ

Company Description: REDEPAZ (National Network of Citizen Initiatives for Peace and Against War) was founded in 1993 as an expression of disagreement with the violent solution of conflicts and as a strategy from organized civil society to deactivate the mechanisms of war and peacefully transform conflicts. REDEPAZ has developed actions and methodologies that seek to promote citizen participation in the construction of comprehensive peace with social justice, local and regional democracy, articulating processes such as the National Movement of Women Peace Builders, the Movement of Girls and Boys for Peace, the Youth Network for Peace, among others
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Researching and logging instances of violence within Colombia, where and when they happened, what happened, who were the victims, the perpetrators, and any other important details and then using that information to create bimonthly reports on the state of violence within the nation.
• Writing a comparison on the current peace process with ELN with the 2016 peace process with the FARC.
• Generating a database of potential future international partners, analyzing the legal frameworks that might limit or prevent these partnerships and drafting introduction letters to send to the organizations and governments.

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Sisma Mujer

Company Description: Intern Colombia has partnered with an NGO who was founded in 1998 and has contributed to the consolidation of women’s rights in Colombia, working with women victims of gender violence and discrimination, both domestic and in the armed conflict. Our partner focuses on human rights and law to strengthen the social processes for the individual and collective empowerment of women. Their mission is to build a Colombia without violence against women and girls. They have helped more than 25,000 women, girls and young victims of violence all across Colombia. Among them are women from rural areas, afro-Colombians, indigenous, social activists, refugees, politicians, exiles and migrants and human rights defenders.
During the last 20 years, our partner has managed to impact legislation, public policies, and has provided recommendations to international organizations to help eliminate all types of violence against women and girls.

Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Role #1: International Cooperation & Fundraising

• Assistance in applying for international grants and funding
• Assisting workshops with women victims of domestic violence and/or victims of the armed conflict
• Refinement and implementation of long-term sustainable funding strategy – Applying to international grants and funding
• Supporting day-to-day tasks of the NGO administrative team – Assisting in the organization of events, and attending events

Role #1: Internationalization Assistant

• The Intern will support the communications team.
• Assistance in the translation of legal documents and legal cases from Spanish to English
• Assistance in the translation of the website
• Reviewing and updating Sisma Mujer’s web page
• Drafting features and other texts for Sisma Mujer’s website
• Global and regional news monitoring concerning Women’s rights
• Assisting the team in visits to the Ministry of Justice and court hearings
• Supporting in day-to-day tasks of the NGO’s communications team
• Assisting in the organization of events, and attending events

Asociación Civil Isauro Arancibia (ACIA)
Fundación Nueva Generación Argentina (FNGA)
Fundación Pilares
Fundación Varkey
Innocence Project
TECHO Argentina
Other Internship Companies

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Asociación Civil Isauro Arancibia (ACIA)

Company Description: Asociación Civil Isauro Arancibia is a pedagogical movement that works daily with more than 300 girls, boys, young people and adults in “street situations”, developing actions aimed at the restitution and promotion of violated rights and providing tools and opportunities for the construction of dignified and healthy life projects.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Accompany the classes of the Isauro Arancibia Children’s Orchestra
• Join in the coordination of music classes for young people and adults
• Participate in primary classes for young people and adults, supporting schooling and accompanying efforts to restore rights: health, identity, etc.
• Collaborate in the quantitative systematization of information on the institution’s pedagogical intervention.

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Fundación Nueva Generación Argentina (FNGA)

Company Description: Fundación Nueva Generación Argentina works to innovate and strengthen the capacities of the social actors and institutions of democratic life in a consensual and sustained manner, to contribute to human development and inclusive democracy, through public-private articulation, incidence in public policies and international management.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Interviews:

• Former Director of the Parliamentary Secretary of the Senate of the Nation and adviser to National Senator Dionisio Scarpin – Topic: organization and functioning of the Senate, parliamentary procedure.
• National Congress Budget Office – Topic: organization and operation, participation in the legislative process of the budget. Fiscal impact assessment of projects under treatment.
• Parliamentary Secretary of the Boque de la Coalición Cívica in Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires – Topic: operation of the City Legislature, organization and activities of the parliamentary bloc. Links with other parliamentary blocs.
• Senior advisors to the Chamber of Deputies – Topic: organization, functioning and parliamentary procedure of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation.
• Tax analyst, advisor to National Senator José Torello – Topic: budgetary analysis in the National Congress and provincial Legislatures
• General Audit of the Nation. Meeting with advisors to the auditor Miguel Ángel Pichetto – Topic: Operation of the AGN, relationship with Congress. Analysis of the Investment Account and referral to Congress.

Attendance at parliamentary sessions:

• Sessions in the Senate and the Legislature
• Deliberative Council of the Province of Santa Fe

Meetings with Civil Society Organizations (NGOs)

• Legislative Directory
• Argentine New Generation Foundation

Guided Tours

• Congress of the Nation – Casa Rosada – Teatro Colón
• Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires

Participation in activities of the Scarpin Senatorship

• Exchange of information and knowledge about parliamentary procedure in Argentina and the US with advisors.
• Analysis of the formal structure of Argentine and US laws. Preparation of individual guides that facilitate the reading of normative texts of both countries.
• Participation in legislative activities of the office.
• SWOT report on the internship experience.

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Fundación Pilares

Company Description: Fundación Pilares is a foundation that works together with children and families who live in impoverished neighborhoods in the City of Buenos Aires, providing opportunities to promote their integral development.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Volunteer assistant/educator of boys and girls at the Early Childhood Center (CPI), will be in charge of accompanying the playful and pedagogical proposals, which have been previously planned by the teacher. It will provide external support to the room, accompanying the daily routines of the CPI: breakfast/snack, lunch, trips to the Center, moments of outdoor play, among others.

General Tasks

• Participate and/or accompany playful activities inside the room or outdoors, together with the boys and girls and the classroom teacher.
• Be part of the daily routine (entry, feeding: lunch and breakfast/snack, farewell).
• Prepare and/or disinfect the material for playful proposals.

Institutional General Tasks

• Accompany the work of systematizing projects and devices that are carried out in the CPI: systematizing the 150 interviews of the psychosocial vulnerability index.
• Learn about the operation of the Organization in General – this will be done in conjunction with Clara Liparoti, Head of Communication and Volunteering

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Fundación Varkey

Company Description: The Varkey Foundation is a nonprofit organization established to improve the education standards in the world. The mission of this foundation is for each child to have a great teacher. With this objective, the foundation actively works to develop educators’ skills and to place higher value on their role. The fundamental belief is that if the quality of teaching is guaranteed, the results will improve.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Templeton Programme Foundation (Felicitas Irazusta): Prepare the biographies of the teachers or professors that visit us, research material that would be useful for the program, help to organize the workshop agendas, and recollect information needed by the leader of the project.
• Comms Team (Yasmin and Juan Pablo): Record the teacher interviews (Spanish or English), research articles and useful information for the team, write notes, letters and press releases for social media. Help to organize different things in that area.
• Monitoring and Evaluation Team (Paola and Natali): Provide general support and be available for any new project.
• Project Investigation Team: (Lucila Malnatti): Provide general support and be available for any new project.

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Innocence Project

Company Description: The Innocence Project is an NGO with three main objectives: research, analysis, and litigation for cases of people who have been wrongfully convicted; the promotion of related legislature and public policy; and the training of students on this area of law.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• The intern will be in charge of the preliminary analysis of the cases under study by IP Argentina. In this sense, the intern must analyze the sentences and the resources of each one of the assigned causes. Based on its reading, the intern must define if it is appropriate to reject the case or, on the contrary, if it should be analyzed in depth, according to the intervention criteria of the Innocence Project Argentina. Likewise, for each case in which the intern works, they must make a presentation before the IP Argentina team in order to present the main points and the arguments for which she considers that it should continue under study or be rejected. In some cases it may be necessary to carry out an activity on the ground before making a decision, such as interviewing the person requesting our intervention. In these cases, the intern will be in charge of completing the proposed task, with the support of the program coordinator.
• On the other hand, if on the date of their internship we have a trial in progress that we must attend, the intern will be the one who will represent IP Argentina in the hearings. The objective of this task is for them to understand how an oral debate is developed in Argentina. Furthermore, the intern is expected to develop management tasks and assist the Innocence Project Argentina staff with the purpose of becoming actively involved in the organization and daily operation of an NGO. These tasks involve, among others, assistance in the administration of material resources, assistance in the organization of institutional project activities, etc.

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TECHO Argentina

Company Description: TECHO seeks to improve housing and habitat conditions through the design, management and construction of housing projects, access to basic services and community infrastructure, in joint action between residents and volunteer youth.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Project: Information gathering and reporting for the Building Democracy Campaign
• Description: During the second semester of the year, the Building Democracy Campaign will be developed from the Communication and Public Affairs area, whose objectives are:
• 1) Generate public conversation about housing emergencies and citizen participation within the framework of 40 years of democracy in Argentina.
• 2) Position TECHO as an organization familiar with the housing problem and with solution proposals for the presidential elections in October, understanding the State as a key actor in its approach.
• 3) Influence the agenda through two specific public policy proposals: response policy to the housing emergency and policy to guarantee the continuity and sustainability of the socio-urban integration processes in popular neighborhoods.

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Other Internship Companies in Buenos Aires, Argentina

• American Solidaria
  Company Description: We are an international NGO with 20 years of experience, without political or religious affiliation, working for the rights of children and adolescents in the American continent.
• Cefeidas Group
  Company Description: Cefeidas Group is an international advisory firm that helps its clients advance their objectives in Latin America. We provide professional services in Public Policy, Risk & Strategy, Corporate Governance, Stewardship & Sustainability and Strategic Intelligence & Research.
• Fundación Instituto David Hume
  Company Description: The David Hume Institute Foundation – Center for Research in Regulatory and Institutional Evolution – is a research center and academic think tank that aims to explore various lines of thought in the areas of law, the humanities and social sciences, with the aim of understanding the evolution of norms and institutions and make public policy proposals. It carries out its activities under the direction of Dr. Eliana María Santanatoglia, who serves as Executive Director.
• SAHDES
  Company Description: Sahdes is a non-profit Civil Association, born in 2003, made up of an interdisciplinary work team, which aims to contribute to the development and equity in vulnerable communities, with a focus on improving maternal and child health, and influencing public health policies.

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Africa Unite
Kelly Stone
The Scalabrini Centre
Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading (VPUU)
Other Internship Companies

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Africa Unite

Company Description: Africa Unite (AU) is a human rights and youth empowerment organisation that works with citizens, refugees and migrants to prevent conflicts, enhance social cohesion and promote socio-economic development. It was formed in 2001 in response to violence against asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in New Cross Roads, in Nyanga, a sprawling, impoverished, predominantly black township on the outskirts of Cape Town in the Western Cape. Initially part of IDASA (the Institute for Democracy in South Africa) AU became an autonomous, registered organisation in 2004.
Underpinned by its organisation slogan, “Building Human Rights communities” AU programmatic focus is on building the knowledge and skills of Human Rights Peer Educators, facilitating reciprocal learning exchanges with community-based and migrant led structures, and creating a platform for intercultural exchange and dialogue between local, refugee and migrant communities in South Africa. Towards the fulfillment of these goals, AU has consistently sought to build partnerships with like minded organizations committed to using rights based participatory strategies as a means of building peaceful, sustainable communities
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Work directly under Lelethu Ngowavu
• Work across projects. The projects include the School Club, training and mentoring youth activists. Contributing to research and drafting papers to lobby and advocate for change. Support the organisations youth Peer educators conducting community dialogues in targeted communities affected by crime, xenophobia and unemployment.
• Liaise and work with stakeholders across the organisation
• A balance of field and office work
• Cross organisational exposure

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Kelly Stone

Company Description: Kelly Stone is a Policy Development and Research Advisor based in Cape Town, South Africa, with more than twelve years of international human rights experience. Kelly holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Sociology and Philosophy from the United States and has been working to advance the social, political, and economic rights of persons across Africa since 2006. Kelly is well-versed in legal analysis and research, and has provided technical expertise in developing legal norms and standards, assessing risk management and strategies, and has assisted government actors in developing policies and protocols relating to safety and security, ranging from national to provincial to local government. Kelly is also a certified facilitator and has trained government officials, NGOs, and community leaders on a variety of topics, including law, policy, safety, and development.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Support Current projects
• Director of Research and Capacity Building for the Global Index on Responsible AI which aims to establish human rights-based benchmarks for measuring responsible use of artificial intelligence in more than 120 countries across the world. I am doing this on behalf of Research ICT Africa, which is funded by the IDRC in Canada
• Designing, developing and conducting a facilitation skills course and curriculum for social workers and community engagement mobilisers based in communities across the Cape Flats which will take place in July. The course will equip participants in participatory methodologies for engagement on discussions around gender based violence and gender transformative approaches. I am doing this on behalf of MOSAIC Centre for Trauma and Healing based in Cape Town

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The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town

Company Description: The Scalabrini Fathers have been providing welfare services in Cape Town to displaced communities since 1994. Beginning as religious assistance to different communities of migrants, the Fathers were soon confronted with the problems experienced by refugees from Angola, the Congos, Rwanda, Burundi and other African communities, and it became necessary to offer more tangible assistance. Starting with the distribution of food and clothing under the Welcoming Programme in 1998, expanding to include a development agenda in 2003, followed by the establishment of Lawrence House, a home for abandoned and orphaned refugee children in 2005; the Fathers formed a secular non-government organisation, the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town (SCCT) to run these projects.
Scalabrinians care for the needs of migrants and refugees, displaced people, seafarers and others affected by human mobility.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Review and analyze existing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks, systems, and processes within the programme.
• Conduct research and gather relevant data and information to inform the revision of the M&E framework.
• Assess the effectiveness and relevance of existing M&E indicators, tools, and methodologies.
• Propose modifications or new indicators, tools, and methodologies to enhance the programme’s M&E practices.
• Provide guidance and training to staff members on the revised M&E framework, including the use of new indicators, tools, and methodologies.
• Regularly communicate and report on the progress and findings of the M&E revision process to relevant stakeholders, including management, and program teams.
• Continuously evaluate and adapt the revised M&E framework based on feedback, lessons learned, and changing programme needs or priorities.

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VPUU – Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading

Company Description: VPUU is an area-based community development programme that aims at safe and integrated communities, citizenship, pride and the improvement of quality of life for the residents in local neighbourhoods through a comprehensive range of urban improvements and social interventions. This is done in partnership with local communities, the public sector and other interested parties in a transformational process.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Work directly with Iris Taani
• Support current research projects
• Liasie with and support other team members

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Other Internship Companies in Cape Town, South Africa

• Desmond Tutu Health Foundation
  Company Description: The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF) is a registered non-profit company established in association with the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, an accredited research centre within the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town (UCT). Bridging rigorous academic research with community development programmes, the DTHF collaborates with those most at risk to find innovative solutions in the prevention and treatment of HIV and related infections. The HIV Research Unit was the first public clinic in South Africa to offer antiretroviral therapy to those living with HIV. Well-connected to international research networks, the DTHF is an influential stakeholder in the global HIV arena. We have a robust policy in support of equity, diversity and inclusion. The DTHF is also conscious of the Environmental impact of our operations and we aim to run our business in a manner that respects the environment.
• Epicentre Health Research
  Company Description: Epicentre is an independent organization that is committed to creating a positive impact on the health and wellness in South Africa. We want to close the gap between unscreened, undiagnosed, and uncontrolled HIV & COVID-19 infections as well as other chronic diseases. We’re focusing on research, implementation, evaluation & tools.
• Open Up
  Company Description: We partner with government, organisations, industry leaders and civil society to identify, gather and make accessible information that supports open communities and an empowered citizenry.
• Refugee Legal Advocacy Centre (RLAC)
• The Commission For Gender Equality
  Company Description: Established in terms of Section 187 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa in order to promote respect for gender equality and the protection, development and attainment of gender equality. The CGE shall advance promote and protect gender equality in South Africa through undertaking research, public education, policy development, legislative initiatives, effective monitoring and litigation.
• The One South Africa Movement
  Company Description: We are a community-driven, activist movement led by Mmusi Maimane that seeks to unite a broad coalition of South Africans who want to see change in South Africa. This involves the mass-mobilisation/organisation of citizens from all walks of life and a broad coalition of business, civic organisations and communities acting as one. One South Africa Movement (OSA) is committed to providing innovative policy solutions to South Africa’s development challenges.
• The Parliamentary Monitoring Group
  Company Description: The Parliamentary Monitoring Group, an information service, was established in 1995 as a partnership between Black Sash, Human Rights Committee and Idasa with the aim of providing a type of Hansard for the proceedings of the more than fifty South African Parliamentary Committees for these three advocacy organisations. This was because there is no official record publicly available of the committee proceedings – the engine room of Parliament – and this type of information is needed by social justice organisations to lobby the Parliament of South Africa on pieces of legislation, matters of democratic processes and parliamentary oversight of the executive.
• Urban Econ
  Company Description: Urban-Econ Development Economists is a specialist-consulting firm in the arena of development economics, local economic development and all related fields. Over the past 38 years, Urban-Econ has established itself as a leader in providing innovative, practical and sustainable solutions for economic development problems, in accordance with each client’s unique requirements.

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Bříza & Trubač, s.r.o., attorneys at law
CIRRA Advisory
Finreg Partners
Institute of Circular Economy
KLB Legal
LitFin – Litigation Financiers
Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic
Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic
Nestle
Novartis
PKN Orlen/Unipetrol
Societe Generale (Komercni Banka)
Valouch Servus Legal
Velux

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Bříza & Trubač, s.r.o., attorneys at law

Company Description: Bříza & Trubač is an ambitious boutique law firm in Prague that continuously strives to serve its clients’ interests and needs with excellence; the law firm upholds diligence, client loyalty and responsibility as their core values. The firm, which will celebrate its tenth anniversary in autumn 2023, has firmly established itself on the Czech legal market in recent years and continues its expansion.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Legal research;
• Advanced work with legal information systems;
• Drafting legal opinions/summaries;
• Preparation of in-house legal briefs;
• Analysis of court decisions and legal submissions;
• Support for senior team members.

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CIRRA Advisory

Company Description: Represents a leading sustainability consultancy company. Among its clients are giants such as Skoda, Siemens, CEZ, Veolia, IKEA, Société General, Olympic Committee, McDonalds, and many others.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Join the advisors and assist them during various business engagements advising large stakeholders on the sustainability transitions.
• If possible, students will be invited to shadow their team meetings.

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Finreg Partners

Company Description: FINREG PARTNERS is a Czech Boutique law firm specialized in provision of legal services to the clients in financial sector. The main focus is on fintech, financial services, capital markets and investment funds.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Legal research relating to the relevant cases of the firm;
• Drafting of legal articles referring to international / EU law matters;
• Assisting in preparation of basic legal documents;
• Review of basic legal documents.

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Institute of Circular Economy

Company Description: INCIEN is the most influential non-profit organization active in the area of sustainability and circular economy in the country.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Work on the implementation of a specific sustainability project into corporations but more importantly also on the research designed for the public as well as public sector.
• Work on their global initiatives and partnerships with other sustainability organizations in the world.

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KLB Legal

Company Description: KLB Legal was founded in 2012 by attorneys David Kubon, Vojtech Laska and Petr Budzinski. This medium-sized law firm specialized in capital markets, compliance, bonds and investment funds, as well as litigation (especially compensation for damages). We are equipped with unique know-how, thanks to our long successful practice, as well as with a team of experienced lawyers. KLB Legal is also a member of PEOPIL, Global Justice Network, and League of Lawyers.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Preparation of legal documentation;
• Research on class actions, including digitalisation and AI implementation;
• Research on fund structures, fund vehicles, and other similar institutions;
• Creation and enhancement of materials intended for the presentation of the law firm;
• Assistance of daily corporate agenda;
• Compliance monitoring.

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LitFin – Litigation Financiers

Company Description: Litfin is one of the major litigation funders in the EU, focusing especially on damages compensation in both major and niche antitrust cases. We enable our clients to finance their claims by bearing all the costs of litigation — from legal representation and court fees to expert opinions. Focusing mainly on competition law infringements which usually involve many individuals and companies harmed by big corporations, our role is above all to provide our clients with necessary guidance through the complicated process, facilitating their access to justice.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Internal and external contractual agenda: drafting employment, cooperation, and litigation funding agreements, NDAs and more;
• Finding optimal contractual solutions while balancing legal and business aspects of specific cases;
• Monitoring new business opportunities, based especially on decisions of the EU Commission, national antitrust authorities and general market developments;
• Legal research: tracking relevant new case law and development in the EU, national and global legislature;
• Background checks of potential clients focusing mainly on prior legal disputes, controversies, investor base, etc.;
• Corporate agenda: incorporation or companies, business licenses, and tax agenda.

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Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic

Company Description: The Ministry of the Environment (MoE) is the central state administrative authority and supreme inspection authority in environmental affairs. The internship will be carried out in the Department of Support for a Low-Carbon Economy Transition – Unit of Support for Energy Systems Modernisation. This unit focuses on EU funding for modernisation of energy systems mainly through the Modernisation fund (energy transition). Further focus of the unit includes issues of energy poverty.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Assist with various policy and research agenda of the dedicated and internationally operating department director who had been formerly the General Secretary of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG).
• It is a guarantee of maximal interns’ integration into the European/Czech climate agenda and related debates and opportunities.

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Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic

Company Description: The Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic is a government agency responsible for overseeing and regulating the healthcare system in the Czech Republic. The ministry’s main objective us the improve the health and well-being of the people of the country through effective policies and programs. The ministry works closely with healthcare professionals, medical institutions and other stakeholders to ensure the provision of quality healthcare services and to promote healthy lifestyles. The ministry is responsible for a range of activities, including the development of healthcare policies, planning and management of the healthcare system, regulation of healthcare services, and the provision of information about health and healthcare to the public.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Legislative research, communications, comparative research and administrative support
• The role of the intern, as well as the full-time staff, is to serve the public while learning about the inner workings of the ministry and the vice minister’s office.

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Nestle

Company Description:The biggest food & beverages producer globally, among the biggest food producers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Nestlé has 4 factories producing confectionary, plant-based products and culinary products. The head office is in Prague, with some 2,500 employees. Nestlé committed itself in 2019 when introducing Roadmap to NetZero to zero CO2e emissions by 2050, with milestones in 2025–20% and in 2030 – 50% of CO2e emissions vs. baseline 2018.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Students will work at the regional (CEE) sustainability department with its director and will primarily work on the evaluations of various new engagements, the best practice transfer and also on the reporting part (ESG).
• Shadowing Sustainability Lead for Nestlé Czechia & Slovakia
• Support with data analyses from Nestlé GHG emission reporting tool
• Support in preparation works for Nestlé CZ&SK CSV & Sustainability report 2022 – data gathering, structure of the report and storytelling
• Participation in meetings with categories in local and CEE level – Category’s NetZero Roadmap discussions and reviews
• Participation in sustainable claims governance process – avoiding greenwashing on packaging and in communication campaigns

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Novartis

Company Description: Novartis is one of the largest healthcare providers addressing needs of the population.

Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Students will be placed with the global sustainability leaders responsible for the supplier management and monitoring
• Contribute to the development of various materials utilized during public presentations on the best practice developed by them.

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PKN Orlen/Unipetrol

Company Description: UNIPETROL (PKN Orlen) is the leading petrochemical group in the Czech Republic transitioning its business completely into a sustainable way.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Students will learn how the industry operates and will have a chance to come up with new ideas for what to modify and how regarding sustainability transitioning.
• This role is geared toward innovative thinkers
• Engage on company reporting itself but more promising is the first direction.

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Societe Generale (Komercni Banka)

Company Description: Societe Generale (KB) is the leading bank in the Czech Republic and the most active one in the area of sustainability and sustainable finance.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Understand sustainable finance (a very new area putting pressure on various industries to be sustainable)
• Modify some of their internal practices and reporting.

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Valouch Servus Legal

Company Description: We are a leading Czech law firm boutique in the areas of private wealth and family firms succession (in the Czech Republic there is currently shift from generation 1 – founders, who build their businesses after Velvet Revolution, – to next generations). We help our clients establish trust and/or foundations, assist them in preparation of their corporate governance structures and help them prepare and implement their successions plan. We are also providing legal support to start-ups and other entrepreneurs, whereby our main areas of practice are corporate and civil law.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Legal research primarily in the area of wealth protection, family firms, but also in the areas of charities and charitable foundation and trusts used for charitable / education purposes
• Review of documents in English – primarily contracts
• Translation into English of formal documents

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Velux

Company Description: For more than 80 years, the VELUX Group has created better indoor environments by bringing daylight and fresh air into buildings all over the world. Our products help create bright, healthy and energy-efficient places to live, work, learn and play in.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Research work – European legislation and documents
• Preparation of presentations
• CSR and ESGD implementation
• Voluntary take-back system implementation
• Meetings with relevant stakeholders

Make-a-Wish
Singapore Red Cross Society
TOUCH Community Services
United Women Singapore
WE CARE Community Sercives

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Make-a-Wish

Company Description: Make-A-Wish Singapore is part of the world’s largest wish-granting organisation and the only wish-granting organisation of its kind in Singapore. It was born from the transformational effects of a wish on the wider community, where our founders pledged to ‘share the power of a wish’. The Singapore affiliate started our amazing journey in March 2002.
We believe wishes provide children the strength to look past their situations and limitations, assist families in overcoming their anxieties, and have the potential to galvanize entire communities in creating hope, strength, and joy for the children as well as their loved ones. Most importantly, we believe that wishes can improve a child’s quality of life, giving them a better chance of recovery.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Develop fundraising activities guidebook
• Donors data management
• Event management

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Singapore Red Cross Society

Company Description: To realise the Singapore Red Cross as a leading and distinctive humanitarian organisation that brings together people and institutions in aid of the vulnerable. Mission – We are dedicated to protecting human life and dignity, relieving human suffering and responding to emergencies. The Singapore Red Cross is a homegrown humanitarian organisation, dedicated to relieving human suffering, protecting lives and dignity and responding to emergencies since 1949. We serve the vulnerable through our blood donor recruitment programme, home and day activity centre for the disabled, transport aid, food aid, and community first aid, and we build capacity and resilience through our training academy, and volunteer and youth development. Beyond our shores, we mobilise and translate contributions from the donor community to relief and recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts, with the aim of helping communities affected by disasters.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Collection of qualitative and quantitative data for potential marketing initiatives
• Support the development of marketing collaterals for Occupational First Aid course (OFAC), Diabetes Education & Care Programme (DECP), Humanitarian Education Experience (HEX) and the Psychosocial Support (PSS) training programmes
• Research and identify potential leads for OFAC, DECP and PSS programmes
• Support the Academy in planning and preparing for outreach meetings, including the delivery of presentation as and when needed

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TOUCH Community Services

Company Description: TOUCH Community Services is a not-for-profit charity organisation in Singapore. We were officially registered in 1992 and have been a member of the National Council of Social Service since 1994. The work of TOUCH started in 1986 as a service for latch-key children in the neighbourhoods of Clementi and Jurong.
Touched by the obvious need of low-income and single-parent families with difficulties making ends meet, much less raising their children in a positive environment, a group of seven volunteers in their 20s organised activities to help the children. This small attempt has today become a multi-service organisation with an integrated network of services located at different parts of Singapore, including Bukit Merah, Clementi, Geylang Bahru, Hougang, Serangoon, Toa Payoh, Ubi and Yishun.
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are at the core of a shared global blueprint for peace and prosperity. As stakeholders of the global community, TOUCH supports the SDGs ofm”Good Health and Well-being” through the Community Enablement Project, “Quality Education” through TOUCH Young Arrows, and “Reduced Inequality” through TOUCH Centre for Independent Living and TOUCH Family Support among others, in our work with vulnerable groups in our local community. At TOUCH, we do our best to ensure that those under our care are not left behind.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Design and curate curriculum content for our children and teens in line with the CASEL Framework of Social Emotional Learning
• Assist in establishing agile modes of learning engagement and curriculum across face-face and online formats

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United Women Singapore

Company Description: United Women Singapore (UWS) is a local non-profit organisation with Institution of Public Character (IPC) status. It advances women’s empowerment and gender equality and builds a pipeline of women leaders and influencers in Singapore. The organisation works towards narrowing the gender equality gap through education and raising awareness and advocacy on issues such as anti-violence and women’s empowerment, with the support of key stakeholders including corporate partners, government agencies, academia, the diplomatic community, non-profit and community groups and the wider community.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Program development including creating decks and work plans for events.
• Outreach and communication work including social media outreach.
• Conduct research on relevant gender equality and women’s empowerment issues, compile data, and prepare reports to support UWS’s advocacy efforts.
• Provide administrative support, such as data entry, document management, and logistical assistance for various projects.

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WE CARE Community Services

Company Description: WE CARE Community Services is an addiction recovery centre funded by charity. We provide support and treatment programmes for all forms of addiction, including drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, and various other compulsive behaviours. Our services are open to all persons who are in need of help to cope with an addictive disorder. We also assist family members who need guidance and support on how to support a family member with addiction issues.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Assisting in public education talks
• Contributing to social media efforts (design and/or content writing), taking of photos or videos to support the centre’s activities,
• Writing for the newsletter, compilation of the 18th Anniversary book, participation in activities, assisting in fundraising events, and any other tasks that are assigned.
• Coordinate some government surveys we need to conduct – will have to involve, staff, volunteers, and beneficiaries, depending on which survey they are helping out with
• Write stories/articles – on addiction-related matters, and possibly interview persons in our community
• Participate in outreach talks. Would like their 3rd party observations on our delivery and the audience engagement

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Sweden (Virtual) – Distribute Aid
México(Virtual) – SilMexico

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Location: Sweden (Virtual)

Distribute Aid

Company Description: Distribute Aid delivers humanitarian aid to communities in need.
By coordinating end-to-end shipments, we make it easy for donors to connect with frontline aid organisations, understand the needs on the ground, and get their aid delivered.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• The intern will be involved in the drafting of our quarterly report. This involves data gathering and processing, design, graphics, context research, and drafting text. This is done to show Distribute Aid’s humanitarian impact each quarter, and have accountability to our donors in terms of the people we have helped and the budget we used. The intern will work with a manger to find all the data, and input it into a pre-existing report layout using Canva.
• The second project is impact reporting. It is similar to the first project, but in this case the information is specifically aimed at our charity partners, to show them the impact our partnership has had in terms of serving humanity. The intern may be involved in meetings with the partner to share the impact our cooperation has had over the past month or quarter.
• Communications – the intern will help DA with brand management and external communications via social media channels and in reports to our partners. This requires knowledge of DA’s policies, image-sharing protections, and language guide. They will gain experience with common practices and policies regarding communication in the humanitarian sector.
• Social media – The intern will be involved in drafting social media communications on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. On a weekly basis, the admin team will lay out posts they would like highlighted that week with a few bullet points and image ideas. The intern will be asked to draft posts or compile research into topics such as regional context for refugees.
• The intern will keep one of our internal reporting datasets up to date to help keep track of our humanitarian aid shipments. The daily tasks will require the intern to collect data from our shipments and inputting it in the correct format on the data spreadsheets. The intern will gain experience with data management, and software services like google sheets, notion, and gsuite.

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Location: México(Virtual)

Silmexico

Company Description: To offer the best consultancy service in Mexico on and to create valuable business for our corporation and society. To make it a joy for all clients to work with us. To help our clients and our people excel.
Intern Role and Responsibilities: Your general role & responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Legal Research & Analysis: The intern may be involved in conducting extensive research of legal doctrines from different countries, helping to draft memos, writing letters, and keeping the team updated on current global legal events that may affect the practice of the law in certain cases. The intern may assist in proofreading and reviewing various forms of document, contracts, legal drafts, and correspondences and prepare legal reports. The intern may review, analyze, and compare various laws, doctrines and regulations on tax law, corporate law, property law, international law in various jurisdictions. Such analysis may be centered on how the various laws and practices differ from our practice’s region and jurisdiction.
• Digital Legal Counsel Support: The intern may support may include reviewing, drafting, and be part of the negotiation process of all types of commercial agreements, non-disclosure agreements, investments agreements, purchase and sale agreements, letters of intent, powers of attorney, trademark registrations, joint ventures agreements, advising on collateral warranty documents, supplier/service agreements and consultancy agreements. The intern may be guided on advising legal experts on a broad range of globally trending commercial and regulatory matters, and structuring, drafting commercial transactions. They may provide day-to-day advice in a wide range of legal areas, including tax law, corporate law, civil law and commerce law according to the Mexican law but also some other international laws that may apply in some cases, and regulatory compliance.
• Legal Writing & Legal Memorandum Assistance: The intern may be involved in drafting legal agreements, writing articles on various practices of corporate law, commercial laws, arbitration, tax law, IP law, arbitration law, business, and financial laws under the keen supervision of the assigned supervisor. The intern is expected to reference all legal research materials and sources used in executing the draft articles but also promote itself as a formal writer in the social media of the firm. The intern may support the curation of legal memos based on current drafts to deliver a short thesis sentence that briefly identifies the issue and the applicable rule and states a short answer. The intern may ensure that the procedural posture of the case and the burdens and standards of proof of well-noted and any additional references or research is cited.
• Case Study Review & Creation: The intern may study local cases relevant with civil, criminal and tax law and keep our clients posted with updated news and information including in-depth analysis on the cases and full report on this regard. Depending on skills the intern can recommend possible precautionary measures and points the client may have to take into consideration. The intern may also be curating and editing materials for release of information on various legal issues and topics to the public. These may include blogs, videos, infographics, art cards, public service announcements. Aside from editing, interns may be asked to do some research on the materials to be covered and included in the content.
• Research Project: The intern may conduct a large-scale research project within our defined focus. The intern may need to acquire the data, organize the data, analyze the information, and create a full report with key findings. This project may require strong organization, data analysis, data collecting, research, written communication, and project management.

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