Capstone Projects
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Community Board 1 asked the Capstone team to create a neighborhood livability plan for the areas surrounding the World Trade Center site. Even before the tragic events of 9/11, the Community Board had been working to develop, grow, and improve Lower …
Manhattan Community Board #1
Recognizing the growing number of young people trafficked for forced labor, International Organization for Adolescents (IOFA) is working to educate and empower those at risk in both source and destination countries. One of its most concerted efforts has …
International Organization for Adolescents
Recognizing the growing number of young people trafficked for forced labor, International Organization for Adolescents (IOFA) is working to educate and empower those at risk in both source and destination countries. One of its most concerted efforts has …
International Organization for Adolescents
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) builds the productive capacity and self-reliance of poor communities by increasing their access to essential local infrastructure and services. The UNCDF Africa Regional Decentralization and Local …
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
In India, women activists are now pushing for the enactment of legislation against domestic violence. Through research and fieldwork in Lucknow, India, the Capstone team first examined the evolution and implementation of legislation against dowry-related …
Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
The Capstone team was asked by the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight to examine the United Nations Internal Justice System. The Capstone team benchmarked the current United Nations system comparing it to other similar grievance systems. Special …
United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services
The General Board of Global Ministries conducts off-site training to supplement the work of existing human service activities in developing countries. The intent of the off-site training is to foster self-reliance and better health through means that are …
General Board of Global Ministries
The Capstone team has provided a framework for discussion of a series of case studies on decentralization and local economic development (LED) in Latin America. The case studies are one of the few sources that provide examples of current LED efforts in …
World Bank Institute
The Capstone team was asked to evaluate selected aspects of the World Banks secondary urban development program in selected pilot towns in Bhutan and to assess its relevance for other Bhutanese towns and other nations strategic urban development policy. …
World Bank: Urban Development, South-Asia Regional Office
The Capstone team acted as part of an international consulting team to The Royal Government of Cambodias Ministry of Economics and Finance. A workshop was held on 15th and 16th March 2001 in Phnom Penh for key government officials and staff. This was the …
The United Nations Capital Development Fund and the United Nations Development Program. The Royal Government of Cambodia:Ministry of Economics and Finance Department
The Capstone team identified the history and nature of public-private partnerships internationally, with particular emphasis on the role of the United Nations and UNOPS in the support of the Global Compact, an initiative of the Secretary- General of the …
United Nations Office of Program Services (UNOPS)
The South African Government made a commitment to insuring the delivery of a basic level of municipal services to all households. At the heart of this commitment is a belief in the right of all South Africans to receive at least a common minimum standard …
Department of Provincial and Local Government of South Africa
In support of a World Bank effort to identify effective means of evaluating and differentiating among Indonesian local governments, the Capstone team studied and analyzed existing approaches to capacity and performance assessment. The goal is to assist in …
World Bank
The University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, under the coordination of Professor Daniel Irurah, is conducting a cost-benefit analysis investigating energy consumption patterns related to low-income housing location in South Africa. The project is …
United States Agency International Development
The metropolitan area around the city of Buenos Aires is largely being developed as informal settlements lacking legal land tenure and the provision of basic infrastructure services. With the privatization of public services in Argentina came the promise …
International Institute on Environment and Development
The Strategic Plan for the City of Buenos Aires (the Strategic Plan) is a shared vision of the future of the city developed with the participation of groups from the public, private and Non-Governmental sectors of society. With the cooperation of these …
Strategic Plan for the City of Buenos Aires
The Capstone team worked on the first phase of an international initiative, sponsored by United Towns Organization (UTO), to promote recycling activities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Small cooperatives organize unskilled scavengers who collect recyclable …
United Towns Organization
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has embarked on a large initiative to analyze the impact of globalization on developing nation-states through their Regional Initiative on Human Development Reports for Asia and the Pacific. Through the …
United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs
Mozambique has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Many women either die in childbirth or are scarred by the trauma of unsafe deliveries. This calamity, combined with the increasing burden of HIV/AIDS, malaria and anemia puts women …
United Methodist Committee on Relief
The Capstone consultant provided the Casal dels Infants del Raval a small nonprofit organization in Barcelona Spain, which is proposing its first strategic planning process. The Capstone consultants activities included conducting an external analysis of …
Casal dels Infants del Raval, Barcelon, Spain
The Municipal Development Program and World Bank Institute offer a course on Intergovernmental Fiscal Reform that aims to improve local government finance and provision of services through education and comparative review, with particular focus on poverty …
Municipal Development Program and World Bank Institute
The Capstone team was commissioned to perform an impact evaluation of the use of Freeplay wind-up radios in the flood-affected areas of Mozambique. The General Board of Global Ministries funded a large portion of the 7,500 self-powering radios, which were …
The Freeplay Foundation & The General Board of Global Ministries
Upon the request of the United Nations Development Program, the Capstone team was asked to analyze how cultural influences enhance or inhibit the processes of democratic decentralization in developing countries. Prior to the work of this Capstone team, …
United Nations Development Program
The Capstone team was responsible for researching a broad range of issues pertaining to decentralization as background for the preparation of a new World Bank loan to support decentralization in urban areas of Indonesia. The Capstone team produced two …
World Bank: Urban Development Division/East Asia and Pacific Region