Deadline: 14 June 2015
Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) is currently inviting applications for the internship at its office in Manila, the Philippines, for a preferred duration of 6 months. The internship is targeted towards graduate students passionate about urban development and infrastructure financing and with a strong interest or background in one or more of CDIA’s development impact areas.
The initiative supports the identification and pre-structuring of appropriate projects and builds management capacity of medium size cities with focus on cities with population from approximately 250,000 up to 5 million people in the Asian region. In these cities, CDIA supports the implementation of existing city development strategies or comprehensive development plans for socially, econo-mically and environmentally equitable and sustainable infrastructure and urban services.
Areas of Focus
- Urban environmental sustainability
- Urban Poverty reduction
- Good urban governance
- Climate Change mitigation/adaptation
Specific tasks include:
- Support the implementation of CDIA’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework (e.g. following up with partner cities and training participants, reviewing Initial Development Impact Assessments (IDIAs) submitted with each PFS report, tracing of medium and longer-term development impacts of completed PFS projects as well as gathering and analyzing data for the six-monthly progress report which may involve occasional traveling).
- Support the preparation of project overviews and case studies as required.
- Based on professional and academic background and interests as well as CDIA’s program needs develop or enhance a CDIA product in coordination with the respective CDIA staff member (e.g. contribute to the implementation of a fund finder tool for Asian cities).
- Contribute to training courses and other activities and events as required.
Benefits
The intern will receive a lump sum in order to cover the costs of the flights to and from Manila from an Asian point of origin, an allowance of USD 600 per month for full-time internship (reduced accordingly for part-time internship) for board and lodging during the duration of the internship, and reimbursement of all costs for travel related to the tasks.
How to Apply
Interested graduate students may send their cover letter and CV via email.
For more information, please visit Internship Opportunity.
