Students for Development
– 2005 internships and team projects

In 2005, Students for Development (then known as the Canada Corps University Partnership Program) funded 103 student internships and 10 team projects, each focused on a particular aspect of good governance in developing countries. As a result, these students gained a first-hand understanding of what it means to be a “global citizen.” The postcards, pamphlets, articles, fact sheets and case studies below provide an overview of their personal experiences and the lessons they learned about governance.

Postcards
Based on student testimonials and photographs, these postcards provide a powerful glimpse into the very personal ways in which internships abroad have had an impact on the participants’ beliefs and outlook on international development.

	Marjorie Henderson, University of Alberta (Sierra Leone)		Daniel Grace, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario (India)
	Gillian Graydon, Dalhousie University (Cuba)		Ashley White, McMaster University (India)
	Eric Olindan, Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Ethiopia)		Simon Mailloux, Royal Military College of Canada (Mali)

Pamphlets
Three pamphlets provide an overview of the program, starting with the lessons students learned as they sought to better understand the challenges to good governance. The impact of these internships and team projects on partner countries is also highlighted.

	Lessons in governance: case studies from 10 team projects			Team projects to build governance
	Internships to form global citizens

Articles
As they tackled both powerful and complex governance issues, from human rights violations in Cambodia to the civil war in Sudan or media control in the Philippines , the students who participated in internships or team projects gained a hands-on understanding of the daily struggles of the people they worked with. These articles present their personal journey towards gaining a deeper understanding of what it means to be a “global citizen” in today’s interdependent world.

• “Without land, we cannot survive,” McGill University (Kenya)
• Election observers in Burkina Faso , Université de Moncton (Burkina Faso)
• Witnessing the conflict in Sudan , Université du Québec à Montréal (Sudan)
• Human rights in Cambodia, Université du Québec à Montréal (Cambodia)
• Companies with a conscience, University of the Fraser Valley(Costa Rica)
• Empowering civil society in Siberia , Wilfrid Laurier University (Russia)
• Judging the journalists, University of Windsor (Philippines)

Fact sheets
In these fact sheets, students and faculty members who participated in the internships and team projects share their comments and insights on five cross-cutting themes related to governance: peace building, intercultural learning, the role of civil society, gender rights and land rights.

• Students’ insights into governance
• Intercultural learning
• The role of civil society in good governance
• Involving women in governance
• Land rights and governance

Case studies
Each of the 10 teams that implemented team projects on governance in developing countries produced a short case study describing the work achieved through collaboration with their overseas partners. Read the stories written by the team participants themselves to find out how their experience abroad tested and transformed their views of the world.

• Dalhousie University – Community-based planning in rural India
• McGill University – The Elangata Wuas Ecosystem Management Program
• Université de Moncton – The role of traditional chiefs in Burkina Faso, obstacle or mechanism of governance? – The case of the Seno region in the Sahel
• Université du Québec à Montréal – The fate of freedom of speech in Cambodia
• Royal Roads University – Civic literacy and local governance in Uganda
• University of Saskatchewan – Cooperatives and sustainable regional development in Mongolia
• University of Toronto – Kosovo student government project
• Wilfrid Laurier University – Building civil society in the Ural region of Siberia
• University of Windsor – Elections monitoring training in Egypt
• York University – Dilemmas of state-building and public administration in Palestine

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