Project profile — Atlantic Council for International Cooperation - International Internships 2013-2014

• Honduras (29.16%)
• Ghana (17.47%)
• Bolivia (11.63%)
• Costa Rica (11.63%)
• Tanzania (12.64%)
• Peru (17.47%)

• Education policy and administrative management:
Education policy and administrative management (11110) (13.00%)
Educational research (11182) (4.00%)
• Primary education:
Primary education (11220) (5.00%)
Basic life skills for youth and adults (11230) (5.00%)
Early childhood education (11240) (11.50%)
• Secondary Education: Vocational training (11330) (7.00%)
• Basic nutrition:
Basic nutrition (12240) (7.50%)
Health education (12261) (3.00%)
• Population Policies/Programmes And Reproductive Health: Reproductive health care (13020) (7.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Democratic participation and civil society (15150) (6.00%)
• Communication: Information and communication technology (ICT) (22040) (6.00%)
• Agriculture: Agricultural development (31120) (15.00%)
• Forestry: Forestry research (31282) (4.00%)
• Other Multisector: Rural development (43040) (6.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project is part of CIDA's International Youth Internship Program (IYIP), funded by the Government of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy (YES). The IYIP contributes to the YES by providing a large spectrum of Canadian graduates with valuable international development work experience abroad.

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (i) increased awareness among female and male Canadian youth of the equal possibility of working internationally; (ii) enhanced equal employability of female and male International Youth Internship Program (IYIP) interns in Canada and in the field of international development; (iii) improved capacity of female and male IYIP interns to contribute to international development in a gender-sensitive way.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2014) include: The Atlantic Council for International Cooperation coordinated 15 internships in six countries. The interns assisted local partners by transferring computer literacy skills to local staff and by improving the abilities of local staff in teaching and facilitating workshops, specifically in Ghana, Tanzania and Honduras. The interns acquired new skills and abilities that increase their employability such as: increased knowledge of how gender equality and other issues affect policies and practices in a development context and increased writing for the web skills.

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