The purpose of AFIDEP’s work is to contribute to sustainable socio-economic development by enabling the formulation of policies and programme interventions that are informed by sound research evidence in these focus areas. Our Context In spite of on-going efforts to improve the utilisation of research evidence in decision-making in Africa, there remain major challenges. Available research is largely fragmented in different scientific publications and not appropriately packaged for use by decision-makers. Furthermore, the evidence often does not fully meet the policy and programme needs of decision-makers since they rarely contribute to the initial identification of the knowledge gaps that the evidence seeks to fill. Use of evidence is particularly weak in closing the big gap between policies and implementation, which remains one of the most critical development challenges in Africa. This is partly because there is limited research evidence to inform effective design and implementation of interventions that have the best potential to improve lives.
Our focus areas: Population Dynamics and Demographic Dividend, Health and Well-being, Transformative Education and Skills Development, the Environment and Climate Change, and Governance and Accountability.
AFIDEP seeks to recruit dynamic and competent professionals to develop and grow our work through the following positions. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
AFIDEP seeks a dynamic and experienced post-graduate researcher to join our project entitled HIGH-Res as an intern. The primary purpose of the internship will be to support the implementation of the HIGH-Res programme mid-term evaluation study data collection, analysis and report writing (a three-country study). The successful candidate will be based at AFIDEP’s office in Nairobi in Kenya. The internship will be for a period of three months effective from the start date.
Qualifications And Experience
- The intern must have a Master’s degree in public health, social sciences, population studies, development studies or equivalent
- One to two years of practical experience in project management
- Demonstrable experience planning and undertaking field work, qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis and report writing
- Experience in working and interacting with government including high ranking government officials a plus.
- Experience writing policy briefs and other policy products and publishing in journalsa plus
Skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to engage with collaborators from diverse cultures
- Excellent communication and writing skills
- Qualitative and quantitative research skills
- Policy analysis and political economy analysis skills a plus
- Ability to work independently with an output-based mind-set
Duties
- Under the supervision of the project M&E lead, the intern will support activities related to study population sampling, data collection, analysis and report writing and dissemination.
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