The student teams in SIPA’s Workshop in Development Practice (the EPD Workshop) have been working this year on cutting-edge projects with seventeen clients in over twenty countries. This year's projects support social entrepreneurship and trade, inclusive finance and e-governance, smallholder agriculture and rural tourism, sustainable supply chains, gender, education, health, peace-building. The teams will present highlights of their work in a video conference hosted by SIPA on April 30 and May 1. Workshop clients, faculty advisors, members of the Columbia/SIPA community, SIPA alumni and the general public are warmly invited and encouraged to join any sessions of interest.
This year's workshop clients include: Brazilian Association of Textile Retailers (ABVTEX) (Brazil), Babban Gona Farmer Services (Nigeria), Cali Chamber of Commerce (Colombia), Education for Employment (Tunisia), Earth Institute and Global Integrity (Kenya and Uganda), East-West Management Institute (Cambodia), Fundación Corona (Colombia), Inter-American Development Bank (Argentina, The Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom), Jusoor (Jordan and Lebanon), Orbis International (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and India), Pencils of Promise (Laos), Search for Common Ground (Indonesia, Japan and South Korea), Self-Employed Women Association (India), United Nations Capital Development Fund (Myanmar), United Nations Development Programme (Serbia, South Africa and Uganda), Value for Women (Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam), and WeRobotics (Nepal, Panama and Senegal).
The Workshop in Development Practice is sponsored by the Economic and Political Development Concentration.
