The International Labour Organization aims to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue on work-related issues. ILO’s Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED), which does business development entrepreneurship promotion. Student intern Jordi Prat Tuca worked with C-BED to attract some local and international partners.
Concordia Welfare and Education Foundation (CWEF) is a Hong Kong-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to poverty alleviation through education and service. CWEF coordinates and directs projects in three main areas: Traditional education, public health and sanitation, and rural development. Student intern Claire Barco refined the foundation’s content management system (CMS) and also created training materials for the new system. Additionally, Barco helped develop a fundraising strategy using the new CMS.
Grassroots Business Fund (GBF) is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to build and support high-impact, intermediary business organizations that provide sustainable economic opportunities to the base of the pyramid economic market. The student MAP team conducted market landscape research, loan product design, social impact evaluation, and research into trade policy and practices in Cambodia.
WDI worked with Digital Divide Data (DDD) to provide advice on how to design and measure their impact on employees from underserved populations from their first day, during their time at DDD as well as after they move on from DDD. WDI also engaged with DDD later to assist in refining their survey instrument through a pre-test in Cambodia and made recommendations for a robust data collection process across their country offices.
The purpose of the Malaria Taxes and Tariffs Advocacy Project (M-TAP) was to understand the role of taxes and tariffs on price and access to anti-malarial commodities and t develop an advocacy and communication strategy. The goal was to identify and minimize the direct and indirect negative impacts of taxes and tariffs on anti-malarial commodities through targeted policy reform and advocacy.