CARE Danmark

INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME

CARE Danmark currently supports projects and programmes in Ghana, Niger, Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nepal, Vietnam. On the basis of the project/programme needs, the respective CARE Country Office defines the tasks. For various reasons related to project activities, in this round of internships we are only able to advertise for tasks in Ghana, Uganda, Niger and Vietnam. However, as in the past, future internships will also be available in all the countries where CARE Danmark facilitates development programmes. We expect to advertise for more tasks in autumn of 2010 (for spring 2011 internship placement).

The Internship task list 2010-2 has been sent to a number of relevant Danish educational institutions.

Written applications in English must be submitted (not by email) to CARE Danmark Secretariat (for internship tasks in Niger, applications must be submitted in both English and French). CARE Danmark reserves the right to select qualified candidates for the internship tasks in collaboration with CARE Country Offices.

CARE Danmark is unfortunately not able to offer financial support for the internship.

Further information and guidelines regarding CARE Danmark's Internship Programme can be obtained from our website www.care.dk or by contacting Internship Coordinator Saada Mbamba, telephone 35 20 01 00

Deadline for applications: March 9th, 2010 at 12:00 Hrs.

Applications, incl. CV should be submitted to:

CARE Danmark Secretariat,

Nørrebrogade 68B

2200 Copenhagen N

Ref. Internship 2010-2

Country : Niger

Project : Wells of Peace

Task:
Identify and evaluate the various costs and values associated with rangeland water well establishment and management in the project study area and propose a base of consensual tariffing.

Background:
The advent of decentralization in Niger constitutes a hope for the creation of better conditions for community based realization and management of socio-economic infrastructure. Such is the case for digging and management of modern (cemented) water wells now under the responsibility of the decentralised administration based in the Communes (Townships).

However, on rangelands the process of digging and management of the cemented wells constitutes a delicate situation because of the importance of the mobility of the communities of herders. Indeed, contrary to the sedentary and agro pastoral areas which have clear strategies with quite precise standards for the establishment and the management of the water wells, on rangeland there does not exist yet such strategies.

It is in this context that CARE DK through CARE/Niger initiated within PROGRES (CARE DK programme for sustainable and equitable natural resources mgt. and support to civil society in Niger) a research-action project in rangeland water " Project to secure the access to water for the herders of the East of Niger" (Puits de la Paix) PDP in Diffa.
PDP strives, beyond the realization of water wells, to secure the access to water for the herders, on the ground as well as at the legislative and institutional level. It is thus that PDP will propose a new approach to establish water wells on rangelands in the Sahel.

One of the questions under study by the project is that of tariffs (or pricing) for access to rangeland water. Indeed, analysis of all the legal and institutional provisions governing the access and the use of water in Niger reveals that there is not a clear base for tariffs on the matter. While in theory water should be available to all as a matter of right (and this is the national policy), the financial cost of creating and maintaining a water well is not given adequate consideration when setting a price on water. The result is a more or less random and subjective system of pricing which considers neither the social value nor the economic and financial costs of the investment and maintenance. This creates uncertainty and inequity of access and opens the door to abuses, often limiting the access to water for poor and/or nomadic groups.

Duty Station: Diffa

Student Profile:
Micro economics, Culture, ethnicity, Development studies, Anthropology, Development Economics, African Studies.

Required skills:

 Good command of French (writing and speaking)
Willingness to live under hardship conditions.

Timing:
September 2010 for a period of 4 months