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Young Professionals Placement Program2007-2008 CIDA PlacementsCIDA i nternships offer post-secondary graduates the opportunity to gain valuable international development work experience. The program is part of the international internship stream of the federal government's Youth Employment Strategy (YES) which aims to help young people make the school-to-work transition.RECRUITMENT IS NOW CLOSED! To be eligible for placements, candidates must :
2007-2008 CIDA
Internships
South Africa, Cape Town Youth Friendly Services Research Assistant June-November 2007 (approximate) loveLife is South Africa’s national HIV prevention program for youth. loveLife has brought together a broad based coalition of international foundations working in HIV/AIDS prevention, major South African media organizations and private corporations, the government of South Africa, and leading South African non-government organizations with one shared goal – to turn back the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, and related epidemics of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, among South Africa’s young people.
Launched in
September 1999, loveLife seeks to substantially reduce the HIV infection rate
among young South Africans – and to establish at the same time a new model for
effective HIV prevention among young people.
Job Description The intern will be involved in researching specific elements of the implementation of loveLife’s Youth Friendly Services program. This research will focus on practical questions that are necessary for a better understanding and improvement in the provision youth friendly services in general and loveLife’s comprehensive youth HIV prevention program specifically. This research agenda will also aim to answer crucial questions that will inform improvements in the quality and efficacy of the program, including:
Briefly, Youth Friendly Services is a partnership initiative between loveLife and the Department of Health that strives to ensure that young people across South Africa have access to comprehensive, high quality health services at primary health care clinics. This is achieved through a service performance and quality improvement accreditation programme that has been designed to:
P To develop appropriate HIV prevention outreach services from the clinic to its catchments population. The Young Professional will have the following duties and responsibilities:
M M S M W W Requirements
Language:
Excellent knowledge of English
E E E E D M E Lesotho, Leribe HIV/AIDS
Support Officer September-March 2007 (approximate) The OHAfrica Initiative for HIV/AIDS was launched on December 1, 2004 as a joint initiative of The Change Foundation, the Ontario Hospital Association, and the Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The mandate of the OHAfrica Initiative is to support the Government of Lesotho’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy through the delivery, strengthening, and roll-out of an antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment program for people living with HIV/AIDS in the District of Leribe. The District of Leribe is the most HIV-affected region in the country. OHAfrica provides a small team of Canadian healthcare professionals to Lesotho, which is working in direct partnership with local healthcare professionals to establish and build an effective and locally sustainable HIV/AIDS treatment program within the public healthcare system. OHAfrica team members are providing training support on HIV/AIDS care, and working with community-based primary health care centers and clinics to support the integration of HIV/AIDS testing and treatment into the local health care system. Job Description This placement will provide vital support to the OHAfrica project in helping to set up ongoing monitoring and evaluation systems and to assess the impact and lessons learned from the program since it was launched in 2004. This process will help us to improve the effectiveness of the Tšepong Clinic and the ARV program in the Leribe District, and to improve our support of training around HIV/AIDS care and prevention, and to develop sustainable replicable models of care in other parts of Lesotho in partnership with the Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The placement will also involve working closely with our local health care counterparts in Lesotho to gather information on their experience so far and their ongoing training and capacity building support needs as they develop the district-wide antiretroviral treatment program in community-based primary care centres and the Tšepong Clinic, and also begin to build a broad-based system of testing, care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS in the region. The work of this intern will help strengthen our relationships and communication with local health care providers, which will contribute to strengthening the community-based focus of the HIV/AIDS program in Leribe District, and will better enable OHAfrica to strengthen the capacity of our local partners and counterparts in the delivery of an effective district-wide ARV treatment program. This placement will help strengthen patient adherence to ARV drugs, by working with patients and HIV/AIDS support groups to identify tools needed, as well as methods that have proved successful, in providing patients with support and information that ensures that patients adhere to their ARV drug program. This placement will also provide OHAfrica with vital information on the development of this ARV pilot program, the first of its kind in the country, which can be shared and reflected upon in collaboration and exchange with other agencies and health care providers working in Lesotho and other parts of Africa and Canada on HIV/AIDS programming. The Young Professional will have the following duties and responsibilities:
Develop and set up ongoing monitoring and evaluation systems for OHAfrica and its local health care partners that are appropriate to a resource-poor setting and are locally sustainable. W Assist in the development of a treatment literacy program and supporting materials. Requirements
Language:
Excellent knowledge of English; interest in learning
additional languages desired.
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Ghana, Accra Health Human
Resources Management Researcher June-November 2007 (approximate) IOM has been assisting governments worldwide to address migration challenges since 1951. IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. As an intergovernmental body, IOM acts with its partners in government, civil society and the international community in its endeavour to assist mobile and vulnerable populations. Job Description The placement will focus on research in the areas of human resource migration, such as mobility of the health care workers, from migration, health and labor perspective. Research will include literature review, collection of data, conducting survey, liaison with the key actors within Gov of Ghana, and relevant partners such as WHO, ILO. It will also concentrate on project development in filling the inconsistencies in current practices and target prevention of health workers migration. The Young Professional will be assigned to Technical Cooperation Department and, under the supervision and guidance of the Head of Technical Cooperation Department and guidance/technical support from the Medical Officer for West Africa (MHD) for health-related aspects, will conduct a research on the health workers migration and its impact on the country of origin. Specific responsibilities will include:
Requirements
Language:
Excellent knowledge of English; interest in learning
additional languages desired. Other: Excellent research and analytical skills. Good Knowledge of project development and proposal writing an asset.
Kenya, Nairobi Health
Promotion and Research Officer
(2 Positions) June-November 2007 (approximate) IOM has been assisting governments worldwide to address migration challenges since 1951. IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. As an intergovernmental body, IOM acts with its partners in government, civil society and the international community in its endeavour to assist mobile and vulnerable populations. IOM Nairobi, Mission with Regional Functions (MRF) is based in Nairobi, Kenya. The Migration Health Department provides health-related assistance to refugees, migrants, and mobile populations in the region. This assistance strongly relies on assessments and other evidence for designing/improving programmes that meet health needs of mobile and migrant populations. IOM also provides technical support to governments and partner agencies on collaboratively addressing trans-border health concerns, developing new migration health initiatives, mainstreaming of health into the various IOM service areas, and travel-related health assessment. Job Description This placement has two openings, mainly because the area of migrants health activities has two focuses: one on the Greater Nairobi area and one on mobile populations in other areas of Kenya and in cross-border areas. The Young Professionals will be assisting the Health and HIV Program Officer and other members of the migration health team to assist in the development and implementation of the following initiatives:
E D D The Young Professionals will have the following duties and responsibilities:
A A D P A Requirements
Language:
Excellent knowledge of English; command of Kiswahili or
Somali desired.
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Zambia, Lusaka HIV
Prevention Project Researcher June-November 2007 (approximate) IOM has been assisting governments worldwide to address migration challenges since 1951, and it has been active in Zambia since 1989. IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. As an intergovernmental body, IOM acts with its partners in government, civil society and the international community in its endeavour to assist mobile and vulnerable populations. Job Description The Young Professional will be assisting the migration health program manager with the implementation of three projects that are being developed or implemented by IOM Zambia:
D I The Young Professional will have the following duties and responsibilities:
D D D P A Requirements
Language:
Excellent knowledge of English; command of French highly
desirable. Other:
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Mozambique, Maputo Women and Children’s Rights Research Officer June-November 2007 (approximate) As a UN agency, FAO has a mandate to support the integration of globally formulated and approved principles and commitments into member state policies and programmes, resulting from Summits and international conferences on food security and sustainable rural development. These range from environmental and sustainable development principles, declarations on the rights of women, the global fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic, World Food Summit declarations and most recently the Millennium Development Goals. The Centre for Legal and Judicial Training in Maputo, Mozambique, and FAO Mozambique is continuing with UNFPA support, again set within the wider FAO program with the CFJJ. This program promotes better local governance through a) giving local communities a stronger awareness of their rights over resources and how to use the legal and judicial system to defend these rights if necessary; and b) raising the awareness of local rights and on the part of key institutional actors, and how they can better respond to the local rights issues in future. It is anticipated that the gender – HIV/Aids dimension of the wider CFJJ-FAO program will expand next year. Meanwhile, the existing program continues to build gender issues into the paralegal-community training which is its core activity, and is implementing a provincial level survey and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) exercise. Job Description The project will strengthen local governance by enhancing capacities for land and natural resource law implementation at local levels, and also complements local government decentralization and local planning initiatives. Making communities aware of their rights and how to use and defend them will reinforce the ‘demand side’ of the governance equation, and achieve development, poverty alleviation and environmental objectives. The project also addresses weaknesses in conflict resolution and access to justice identified in an earlier CFJJ/FAO/Netherlands project - low local community awareness of how to use existing judicial and related mechanisms to assert and defend legal rights. The Young Professional will have the following duties and responsibilities:
S P Requirements
Language:
Excellent knowledge of English; excellent Portuguese highly
desirable. Other:
Vietnam, Hanoi Health
Communication and Education Officer July-March 2007 (approximate) HealthBridge (formerly PATH Canada) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that aims to identify, understand, and bridge gaps in public health including gaps between needs and technologies; evidence and policies; policies and practice. Job Description The Vietnam office has the following programs at the moment:
G E In each program there are one or more projects. Many of these projects seek to promote positive change in target populations to reduce morbidity and mortality; public education is a major component of these projects. The following two examples present examples of our typical public education approaches. 1- Reducing social acceptability of smoking in Vietnam: The project seeks to reduce the social acceptability of smoking by improving public awareness about the health consequence of smoking and passive smoking and by improving the behavior of smokers and non-smokers using the combined approaches of media campaign and community support programs. Many TV spots, radio spots, posters and leaflets are to be developed for use in this project. 2- Promoting gender equality and male responsibility in reproductive and sexual health: This project aims to increase men’s responsibility in RH, their perceptions of masculinity to include positive factors such as taking economic responsibility for the family, supporting others, being an active member of the household, and being a good role model for and being actively involved in the raising of children. 3- The project will have to develop several IEC materials to disseminate to the community.The Health Communication and Education Officer will work as a member of various project teams to:
U D D This placement will contribute to the improvement of public knowledge and attitudes, as well as ultimately to promoting positive and reducing negative behaviors, as an essential public health approach to improve health and social equality. The placement will also make contribution in development of the knowledge and skills of HealthBridge staff members and their partners in health communication in general and IEC materials development in particular. Requirements
Language:
Excellent knowledge of English; interest in
learning additional languages desired.
Nigeria, Ibadan Health
Programming and Research Associate August-February 2007 (approximate) In Nigeria, CHESTRAD stands out amongst other NGO’s for its high level of professionalism, integrity, efficiency, quality assurance and transparency. Much confidence is placed in CHESTRAD initiatives by Nigerian policy makers as CHESTRAD is often the first approached to develop plans for health reform in local and national communities. CHESTRAD's commendable operating policies have also attracted international attention and esteem. In 2001, The World Health Organization recognized CHESTRAD’s Flagship program, the Oriade Initiative, with an award of high distinction, called “Best Practices on Poverty and Health in Africa”, in the category of NGO Activity. The Oriade Initiative is an ongoing community based research project for poverty alleviation and sustainable development through health reform. The Oriade Initiative presents co-financing and co-management based on existing local practice as adaptable and feasible strategies for sustainable development with active participation of the local community and its partners.
In efforts to work towards realizing these international health goals locally, CHESTRAD has taken a creative and fresh approach to health reform with a focus on youth and women. This approach regards rampant unprotected sex and HIV/AIDS among youth as symptoms of the larger problem of lack of opportunities, role models, and health information. Job Description The intern, along with CHESTRAD employees will work towards improving the reproductive health situations of young persons by actively engaging civil society and policy makers in the provision of an of enabling environment for Total Youth Empowerment using Reproductive Health Empowerment as its focal and entry point. This aim will be realized through old and new liaisons forged with Ibadan youth leaders, schools, community centers, government health departments, and active NGOs. The intern will foster and maintain a Total Youth Empowerment environment on a local level as well as collect critical research data from communities surrounding Ibadan to enable CHESTRAD to assess the success of TYE in young communities and analyze opportunities for enhancement of the TYE program through the YEDA questionnaire.
The Young Professional will have the following duties and responsibilities:
T Requirements
Language:
Excellent
knowledge of English; Experience with one of Nigeria’s three most common
languages Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa is an asset.
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