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Funding, Internship and Employment
Opportunities
An important aspect of undertaking studies in Environment and Development
is obtaining funding for field research. At REM we attempt to locate funding
for students to cover field research expenses but cannot guarantee this in
every case. Thus, it is imperative that students wishing to undertake
overseas research for their Masters' projects consider funding options. A
number of possibilities are presented below, some of which pertain to general
funding for students while others cover field research only.
Students are encouraged to apply for external funding prior to and after
entering the program. Internal funding for graduate students in the School of Resource and Environmental Management
in the form of teaching assistantships and graduate fellowships may also be
available for qualified applicants.
Below, we have provided links to general web
sites for conducting your own search for sources of funding and contact
information and details on specific grant and
internship opportunities. Finally, we have provided links to employment postings in government and non-government
organizations related to environment and development to give you an idea
of the types of jobs available in this field after completion of your degree.
General Web Search Sites
Community of Science Funding Opportunities
SFU Office of Research Services
Specific Funding and Internship
Opportunities
Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Fellowship in International Development Management
Contact:
Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Aga Khan Foundation Canada,
199 Sussex Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario,
K1N 1K6
Phone: (613)237-2532
Fax: (613)567-2532
Toll free number:
1-800-267-2532
Email: info@akfc.ca
Arthur B. Schultz Foundation
Social Microenterprise
Goals: Fund small-scale entrepreneurial
projects in developing nations that ideally are both ecologically sustainable
and provide economic diversification for local communities. Their current
geographic focus includes Vietnam,
Guatemala, Palestine and Kenya. They consider funding a
variety of microenterprise projects that subscribe to the general principles
of social and/or environmental payback
Association of
Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)
Canada-Latin
America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants
Goals: Provides up to $15,000 to meet travel and research costs for Canadian
and Latin American collaborating researchers
AUCC Young
Professionals International Program
Goal: To contribute to the Canadian Government's Youth Employment Strategy
through the implementation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade Youth International Internship Program. They also manage
a selection of scholarships and internships for Canadian students.
Canada-U.S. Fulbright
Program
Applications available from SFU Dean of Graduate Studies (http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/)
Goals: Research awards for those who intend to spend an academic year of
research and coursework at institutions in the USA, but who are enrolled in
graduate programs at Canadian universities.
Canada
World Youth-NetCorps Canada International
Goals: For youth to work in a community organization, a local institution or
small business and acquire experience in a field such as community
development, social services, education, agriculture, health or the
environment in countries around the world.
Canadian
Institute of Planners (CIP / ICU)
Worldlink - International Internship Program for
Planners
Goals: Provide international work experience for young Canadian planners
Canadian International
Development Agency
Junior
Professional Officer Program
Goals: Places young Canadian post-graduate students in development related
positions with UN-agencies.
International Youth
Internship Program
Goals: Provide young Canadians with employment experience through internship
placements with Canadian organisations, NGOs, and private businesses involved
in Development work (list of participating organisations changes yearly, see
CIDA web site for current program details)
Carnegie Foundation
International
Development Grants
Goals: Supports collaborative projects focusing on peace and security and
capacity-building globally.
Charles Steward Mott Foundation
Environmental
Grants Program
Goals: Usually funds projects, but will support research if it meets the
granting criteria. The Environment program is organized into conservation of
freshwater ecosystems, international
finance for sustainability and special initiatives.
Crane-Rogers Foundation
Institute of Current World Affairs
Goals: Sponsors individuals to conduct independent research (not academic) in
the fellowship site of her/his choice, exploring an appropriate fellowship
topic of her/his own design. Only research outside of USA is funded, candidates must
have completed current phase of their formal education. Areas of particular
interest to the Institute include Burma,
India, North
Africa, Venezuela,
and Southeast Asia, but candidates may seek
fellowships in any country.
Department for
International Development
Commonwealth Scholarship and
Fellowship Plan
Awards for post-graduate study and occasional undergraduate
study covering some Commonwealth countries.
Shared
Scholarship Scheme
Awards for Commonwealth postgraduate students to study in the UK.
Donner Canadian Foundation
Goals: Provide funding for research into public policy in conjunction with a
number of other issues including environment.
EarthWatch
See web site for details
Economy and Environment Program for
Southeast Asia (EEPSEA)
EEPSEA
Research Awards in Environmental Economics for SE Asian Scholars
Goal: Provide research grants in environmental and resource economics to
locally-based SE Asian researchers to cover the costs of their doctoral
fieldwork. Awards are open to nationals of the member countries.
Environment Canada –
Environmental Technology Advancement Directorate
International Environmental Youth Corp
(IEYC)
Goal: Provide young Canadians work experience in the environmental sector
overseas through internship positions with Canadian exporters of
environmental products and services.
Environmental
Defense
Goals: NGO mini-grants for up to $15,000 to support partial salaries for
academics, students, interns, and science fellows, as well as other costs of
a research project. They encourage innovative proposals with the potential to
leverage significant improvements in environmental protection. Special
consideration will be give to research projects within the US or the Pacific coasts and Pacific
territorial waters of the United States
(including Hawaii), Mexico, and Canada.
Food Agriculture Organization
Volunteer Program
Goals: Accepts post-graduate students and professionals for volunteer
positions. Volunteers are responsible for their own costs (no re-numeration).
Ford Foundation
Goals: Various funding for research projects in developing countries.
Goldman Fund
Goals: International projects that address environment and population issues,
grants $10,000 and up.
Government of Canada
International Scholarship Programs
Commonwealth Scholarship Plan
Goals: To enable students of high intellectual promise to pursue studies in
Commonwealth countries other than their own, so that on their return they
could make a distinctive contribution in their own countries while fostering
mutual understanding within the Commonwealth.
Foreign Government Awards Program
Goals: To assist Canadian students in furthering their studies or conducting
research abroad at the master's, doctoral or post-doctoral level, and normally
cover a period of at least six months.
Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowships Programs
Goals: To provide several hundred fellowships for graduate studies and
research, fellowships for undergraduate studies at universities through the
region and awards for specialized, short-term training at educational
institutions and training centers in OAS Member and Observer States.
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Goals: Research supported that addresses violence, aggression, or crime.
Applicants invited from any field.
International Association for the
Exchange of Students for Technical Experience
Goals:
- Enable Canadian students to combine travel with a career-related job
overseas
- Offer Canadian employers well-qualified and motivated trainees
- Provide a source of cultural enrichment for participants and their
community
- Help to build technological understanding between Canada and other countries
International Council for Canadian
Studies (ICCS)
Goals: Fellowship to fund education of Canadian residents and nationals in
other American nations for a period of 3 months to 3 years
International Development Research Centre
Internship
Awards
Goals: Develop research skill and development experience for candidates
with a Master's level education or higher through internship positions at the
IDRC.
Doctoral Research
Award
Goals: promote the growth of Canadian capacity in research on sustainable and
equitable development from an international perspective. Research focuses
include social and economic policy, environment and natural resource
management, information and communication technologies for development, and
innovation, policy and science. Normally, such research is conducted in Latin
America, Africa, the Middle East or Asia.
Evaluation
Research Awards
Goals: Assists Canadian and developing-country graduate students undertake
their thesis research in the field of evaluation.
Canadian
Window on International Development Awards
Goals: Supports Doctoral work on relationships between Canadian aid,
trade, environment and development
C. Fred
Bentley Fellowship in Forage Crops
Goals: Supports graduate work on forage crops and agriculture in
developing nations.
Value: Up to $30,000 CDN
Ecopolic Graduate Research and Design Awards
Goals: Supports research on urban poverty and the environment
in developing countries.
Value: Up to $20,000 CDN
Community
Forestry: Trees and People - John G. Bene Fellowship
Goals: Provides assistance to Canadian graduate students undertaking
research on the relationship between forest resources and the social,
economic, cultural and environmental welfare of people in developing
countries.
Value: $15,000 CDN
Contact:
Centre Training and Awards Program (CTAP)
International Development
Research Centre (IDRC)
150 Kent
Street, Mailroom Suite 990
Ottawa,
Ontario
K1P 0B2 - Canada
Fax: (1 613) 567-7748
Telephone: (1 613) 236-6163 ext.: 2098
E-mail: cta@idrc.ca
International Foundation for Science
Goals: Grants up to $12,000 for developing nations scientists
International Institute for Applied
Systems Analyses (IIASA)
Young Scientists
Summer Program (YSSP)
Goal: offers summer research opportunities (June to August) to advanced
graduate students whose interests correspond with IIASA's commitment to
issues of sustainability and the human dimensions of global change, and on
methods for dealing with these complex issues. Most TSSP scholarships are
funded by one of the National Member organizations. The program takes place
in Austria.
IODE
War Memorial Scholarship for Doctoral Study
Applications available from SFU
Dean of Graduate Studies
Applicants invited from any field
Goal: Funding for students who have a first degree from a Canadian
Institution and are enrolled in a doctoral degree in any discipline.
Value: $15,000
J.
Armand Bomardier Foundation International Fellowships
Applications available from SFU
Dean of Graduate Studies
Goal: For Canadians to study research, and work abroad in order to build
their international competence and to enhance Canada's participation in the
world economy.
Value: $10,000
Lindbergh Foundation
Goals: Supports work in "technology and natural/human
environment" with grants of up to $10,580 given as seed money. Grants
categories include agriculture, aviation/aerospace, conservation of natural
resources, education, exploration, health, and waste minimization and
management.
MacArthur Foundation
Program
on Global Security and Sustainability
Goals: Promotes peace within and among countries, healthy ecosystems
worldwide, responsible reproductive choices, and the protection of human
rights.
Mackenzie King
Scholarship
Applications available from SFU
Dean of Graduate Studies
Applicants invited from any field
Goal: Funding for graduates who engage in (commence or continue) postgraduate
study in any field.
Value: $10,000
Organisation
of American States (OAS)
OAS Fellowships
Goal: To provide fellowships to students from the member states for graduate
studies and research, and awards for specialized, short-term training at
educational institutions and training centers in OAS Member and Observer States.
PEW Charitable Trust
Environment Program
Goals: Funds applied research in environmental policy related to living
marine resources, old-growth forests and wilderness protection, and global
warming and climate change.
Rockefeller Brother Fund, Inc.
Sustainable
Development Program
Goals: To support environmental stewardship project that is ecologically
based, economically sound, socially just, culturally appropriate, and
consistent with intergenerational equity. Projects in Africa, Asia, and Central Europe.
Rockefeller Foundation
Goals: Provides grants to research programs related to health, globalization,
food security among others. Visit the foundation's website for details and
requirements for each of these programs.
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Sophie
Danforth Conservation Biology Fund
Goals: Fund projects that protect world's threatened wildlife and enhance
biodiversity
Contact:
Sophie Danforth Conservation Biology Fund
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Providence, Rhode Island 02907
USA
Phone: (401) 786-3610 ext. 335
Fax: (401) 941-3988
Email: info@rwpzoo.org
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
India Studies
Programme for Canadian Scholars
Canadian Studies
Programme for Indian Scholars
International Youth
Internship Programme for Canadians
Contact:
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
1402 Education Tower
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 1N4
Telephone: (403) 220-7467
Fax: (403) 289-0100
Email: sici@ucalgary.ca
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council
Goal: Supports research in social
sciences and humanities.
Simon Fraser University
University Administered Graduate Scholarships
Entrance
Scholarships:
Bert Henry Memorial Graduate Scholarship (For entering Ph.D. students, value
$18,000)
Simons Foundation Doctoral Entrance Scholarship ($15,000)
C.D. Nelson Memorial Graduate Scholarships ($17,000)
Scott Paper Limited Bicultural Graduate Fellowship (For Quebecois student,
$15,000)
Continuing
Scholarships:
William
and Ada Isabelle Steel Memorial Graduate Scholarship
(For Student whose research takes place outside of B.C., $17,000)
Presidents Ph.D. Stipends ($5,200)
Graduate Fellowships ($4,800 for one semester)
Private Scholarships (various values and conditions)
The South Asian Network for
Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE)
Research competition on the Economics of Natural Resources and Environmental
Management
Goal: The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
(SANDEE) is a regional network that seeks to bring together analysts from the
different countries in South Asia to address
environment-development problems. SANDEE's mission is to strengthen the
capacity of individuals and institutions in South Asia
to undertake research on the inter-linkages among economic development,
poverty, and environmental change and to disemminate practical information
that can be applied to development policies.
Surdna Foundation
Environment
Program
Goals: Grants to US focused projects related to biodiversity preservation,
renewable energy and energy efficiency, transportation and urban/suburban
land use.
Turner Foundation
Environment Program
Goals: Supports research in water/toxins, energy, forest/habitats,
sustainable living, healthy communities, and other.
United Nations (UN) Internships/Fellowships
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
Internship Programme
Goal: Provides suitable candidates (primarily graduate students) with
experience working at the UN. Interns must cover their own costs.
Contact:
Internship Programme - Internship Coordinator - Administrative Section
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Phone: (41 22) 9173456
Fax: (41 22) 9170213
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Internship Programme
Goal: Provides suitable candidates (primarily graduate students) with
experience working at the UN. Interns must cover their own costs.
Contact:
All applications should be made directly to the bureau/country office where
the applicants are interested in joining as an intern. The list of these
offices can be accessed here.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO)
Various
UNSECO fellowships
Example: Man and Biosphere Young Scientists Award Scheme (MAB)
Goal: Awards of up to $5000 encourage young scientists (primarily from
developing countries) to make use of MAB
sites in their research.
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Internship
Programme
Goal: Provides suitable candidates (primarily graduate students) with
experience working at the UN. Interns must cover their own costs.
Wallace Global Fund
Goals: Grants in environment and development, usually for NGOs
Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation
Global Citizenship
Goal: The
fellowships are targeted towards emerging Canadian leaders who demonstrate
potential to enhance Canada’s
role on the world stage. The fellowships will provide successful candidates
with a cash award of $20,000 as well as other forms of support.
Weeden Foundation
Goals: Grants to the projects related to biodiversity, land acquisition and
population, usually for NGOs.
Contact:
747 Third Avenue,
34th Floor
New York, NY
10017
Phone: 212-888-1672
Fax: 212-888-1354
email: weedenfdn@weedenfdn.org
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Canada
Goal: WWF-Canada
will provide funding support for high quality species research and recovery
projects; full details for the 2010 field season will be announced at a later
date.
Macnaughton Conservation Scholarship
Goal: Provides two scholarships at $5000 each to students pursuing research
on Canada's
wildlife at risk or on priority habitat areas. The students' work must be
directly related to conservation efforts.
World Bank
Joint
Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program
Goals: The Program awards scholarships to individuals from World Bank member
countries to undertake graduate studies at any university located in a World
Bank member country except their own. The applicants can propose a program of
study in a wide variety of academic fields related to public policy making.
Robert
S. McNamara Fellowships Program
The Program has been restructured into a Master's degree in Public Policy
(M.P.P.) at The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
Goals: The Robert S. McNamara Fellowships program supports M.P.P. students
from developing countries.
Value: McNamara Fellows receive a full tuition fellowship, a travel
allowance, and a stipend for living expenses.
Post-Degree Opportunities
Public Service Commission of Canada
Domestic Positions
CIDA
NGO
positions
General
positions
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Young Canadian
Leaders for a Sustainable Future
Goal: To provide young people with the substantive knowledge, communications
skills, resources and practical experience necessary to develop international
sustainable development policies and to become effective agents of change.
Contact:
International Institute for Sustainable Development
161 Portage Avenue East,
6th Floor
Winnipeg, MB
Canada R3B 0Y4
Tel.: (204) 958-7700
Fax: (204) 958-7710
E-mail: intern-info@iisd.ca
Asia Pacific Foundation, BC
Post-Graduate Research
Goal: To foster the next
generation of Asia Pacific researchers and analysts. The agency, based
in Vancouver,
focuses on business and policy issues related to Canada-Asia economic
relations, development co-operation, people-to-people linkages, and
institutional, political, and security relations.
Contact:
Anita Tong
Assistant to Vice President
Research and Analysis
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Suite 220,
890 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6C 1J9
Telephone: 604-684-5986
Fax: 604-681-1370
International
Institute for Sustainable Development
Internship Program
Goals: Internships for Canadian post-graduates under 30, positions in climate
change, trade and environment, business, economics and sustainable
development, development and the internet, agriculture forests and community
development
International Development Research Centre
Internship Awards for Programs in Environment and Natural Resources
Management Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development
One World
International Development employment, volunteer and internship opportunities,
with predominantly European NGOs (open to Commonwealth citizens).
United Nations University - Institute of Advanced Studies
The UNU/IAS, one of the premier research and training centres of the United
Nations University located in Tokyo, Japan, was officially inaugurated in
April 1996. Its programme is directed at pressing global issues of concern to
the United Nations with an interdisciplinary approach, and includes research
on sustainable development
World Wildlife Fund
Internship Program
WWF offers paid internship opportunities that usually last between 3 and 6
months. Internship posted throughout the year. Visit “Careers”
on the WWF home page, locations vary but the majority of the positions are in
Washington D.C.
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