Watch the Informational Session on Hosting our Interns (the CAIP Learning Placement Component)
We are soliciting for host organizations for our interns in our Pan-African Internship Program – the Cloneshouse African Internship Program.
Hosts will provide meaningful evaluation project work and mentoring to associates for three months. Our CAIP Interns are among the best and brightest graduate students and experienced evaluators in Africa who are learning through the Cloneshouse African Internship Program to transfer their strong inquiry skills in monitoring and evaluation to real-life situations in organizations, agencies, and firms.
Hosting a CAIP Intern at your organization is a unique opportunity to help build monitoring and evaluation’s future through fostering the professional growth of an associate from a background under-represented in the field. A number of hosts will find the experience so positive as to invite their associate to continue in a part- or full-time capacity upon completion of the exchange program. Host shall be saddled with identifying a staff member with significant evaluation experience to serve as a mentor to the interns, providing a meaningful evaluation internship experience, as well as providing mentorship to CAIP interns, guiding them through their learning placement and helping them develop essential skills in monitoring and evaluation.
The learning placement component of the program incorporates Indigenous Evaluation (IE) methods throughout the program. While hosts need not incorporate IE exclusively, we believe that culture and context are inherent considerations in all evaluations. Hosts should be considerate of issues of culture and context and their role in evaluation practice.
CAIP Interns work a minimum of three days per week at your organization. Finalists are selected by an advisory team based on the applicant’s capacity and interests as well as the needs of the host. Host then interviews the geographically matched candidates. Final placements of candidates are determined by the CAIP Management Team based on the best match for both the host and interns.
Conversely, Cloneshouse will provide orientation and training for the interns before assigning them to host organization, monitoring and support of the learning placement experience both for hosts and interns, evaluation and feedback on the learning placement process to assess effectiveness of the program, networking opportunities with professionals, compliance and safety of host and intern activities to relevant legal and safety requirements, as well as provide interns with transportation stipends ($100 Stipend per month, $300 for three months) throughout the duration of the learning placement.
Interested in hosting an intern? Complete this EOI form to participate in this unique opportunity to work with tomorrow’s leaders today!
To access the concept note for the Learning Placement Program CLICK HERE
Thank you for considering this partnership opportunity. We look forward to potentially collaborating with you to create enriching learning experiences for the next generation of Evaluators in Africa.
Great learning and capacity building opportunity.