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Greetings!
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere the summer is but a distant memory, with winter already knocking on our doors.
In this month's edition of the MDP Secretariat e-newsletter we will again be giving a voice to two MDP students and the Master's in Development Practice program at BRAC Development Institute.
We hope you enjoy these messages from the field, and as always, please feel free to send us your thoughts and comments.
Wishing you the best from all of us at the MDP Secretariat!
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From Our Partners
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BRAC Development Institute 's
Master's in Development Practice program
Beginning January 2011, BRAC Development Institute (BDI), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, will start a Master's in Development Practice program that they will call the Masters degree program in Development Management and Practice (MDMP). This flagship program will offer an innovative, cross-disciplinary, graduate degree that combines classroom teaching (on the latest advances in development theory and practice) with hands-on field experience. Given the wide range of successfully scaled up development interventions in Bangladesh (in schooling, health care, family planning, microfinance, etc.), and four decades of in-house experience at BRAC, the MDMP program will provide a unique training environment for development professionals.
St udents are required to take 60 credits to fulfill the requirements for the Master in Development Management and Practice (MDMP) program. This includes three foundation courses (2 credits each), twelve core courses (4 credits each), and a field internship with a written report (8 credits). The foundation courses can be waived if a student has taken similar courses in the past. Field internships are, however, mandatory for all. Students can ask for assistance in field internship placement at BRAC or an NGO that they find on their own, or return to their previous workplace for four months as an intern/employee and produce a guided report based on their work experience. Read more here or contact Dr. Ferdous Jahan, Academic Coordinator, BRAC Development Institute (jahan@bracu.ac.bd).
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Student Voices on the MDP Program
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Emory University's MDP program
by Stephanie A. Stawicki
Ever since I was young, I have always enjoyed learning about the world---its geography, its languages, its food, and its people. As I grew older and my studies  delved deeper, I became even more fascinated with the world and its problems and how big and complex they seemed. It was this curiosity and even misunderstanding of the magnitude of the world and all that is in it, that inspired me to pursue a degree in international affairs in college. During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate to study abroad in East Africa, Eastern Europe and Russia, and Australia, which further piqued my curiosity. Upon graduation, I began working for a U.S. Congressman, handling immigration and refugee/asylee matters on the constituency level. For two years, I liaised with government agencies and constituents, while trying to suppress my curiosity about what life would be like as a Peace Corps volunteer (an idea that entered my mind sometime during college).
Read More from Stephanie.
University of Minnesota
by Devin HoganFor five months after college I lived on a rural Hawaiian island in upheaval. Molokai (The Friendly Isle, population 7,404) purposely has no stoplights and no elevators and is known by outsiders primarily for its deer hunting and former leper colony. Cruise ships don't visit the island because residents formed a chain of canoes across the harbor to turn back the first attempted arrival.
In 2006 the island's largest landowner proposed a two-hundred-house subdivision on pristine beachfront in trade for locking 60,000 acres in a land trust. The deal sounded good on paper: One Last Development. Debate on how to proceed consumed the island and bitterly divided families. Some of the old guard was tired of fighting; others liked the potential for new jobs. In this climate I arrived for an internship at the weekly newspaper.
Read more from Devin
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Global MDP Programs
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