Results of the 2013 ISID-CIDA Research to Practice Graduate Student Fellowships in Development Studies are announced

The Institute for the Study of International Development is pleased to announce that the following graduate students have been awarded a Research to Practice Graduate Student Fellowship in Development Studies.  Funding for this award has been provided by the Canadian International Development Agency as part of its most recent grant to ISID.  As part of the fellowship, each recipient will produce a policy brief on their proposed topic.

• Cassandra Cotton.  Securing the Future of Children and Youth
• Valérie Dagenais.  Le renforcement de la santé physique et psychologique des enfants
• Mark Daku.  Obstacles and Opportunities: An Analysis of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Efe Igor.  The Illusion of Race Neutrality :  Re-Thinking Poverty in Post-Apartheid South Africa
• Carlyn James.  The Capacity for Credit and Savings to Enhance Smallholder Farmer Resilience Strategies
• Nathaniel Laywine.  Canadian Youth and Volunteer Tourism: New Outlooks on Contemporary Development Practices
• Matthew Pritchard.    The Co-Evolution of Land Tenure Systems in South Sudan:  Livelihood Security and Marco-Economic Reform in a Post-Conflict Environment
• Arlette Saint Ville.  Innovation Adoption Among Smallholder Farmers for Improved Food Security: An Individual, Ego Network and Community Perspective
• Sara Thiam. Pursuing Rights for Trafficked Children in West Africa: Short- and Long-Term Considerations
• Lorenzo Vargas.  Processes of Communication for Peace among Colombian Internally Displaced Youth
• Christopher Wade.  Examining Threats to Productive Land Use in the Context of Kenya’s Laikipia Rangelands:  A Case Study in Increasing Food Security in Africa’s Semi-Arid Lands
• Sarah Wilson.  Less Cutting, More Planting.  Community Tree-planting Projects as a Tool to Enhance Ecosystem Services in Rural Montane Farming Systems