By Seema Chowdhry (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, MPA 2017) Edith Louise Tuazon Batac, an alumna of Master in Public Policy (MPP) Class of 2010, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), has a simple way to explain what she does. “If I were to explain my job to my toddler, I would say mama helps take care of the planet to help break its fever – just like how I take care of you when you are not feeling well.” Loit is an MPP alumna from Class of 2010. A senior offic

Assessment of the Value Chain Analysis Approach through a Case Study of Nepal’s Large Cardamom Sector Prepared by: Denisse Becerra, Elizabeth LoGalbo, Stephanie Ma, Leselle Vincent Participating in the Global Public Policy Network Fellowship was a great opportunity for our team, and we were excited to be able to learn from our peers and the monthly presentations, as well as from each other. Our group came together out of a desire to improve community-level foo

● Overall experience in the SDG Certificate As a team, we feel very honored to be selected to participate in this year’s SDG certificate which granted us the unparalleled opportunity to meet with students and experts from different institutions. We have designed, under the guidance of academic and scientific advisors, dedicated to facilitating the cross-culture communication between Africans and Chinese in Guangzhou city in the context of the Covid-19 global health crisis. In

Overall Experience The SDG Certificate, in such a particular period as 2021, was a great professional and human experience. Our team started working together in late September without knowing each other, we only knew that we wanted to develop a social impact project related to education in Latin America. Currently, in May 2021, we still do not know each other physically but we were able to create a special bond through Zoom and we were able to develop a solid project to suppo

Sciences Po: Julie Cassan, Agathe Claude, Mariuca de Hillerin, Audrey Fontaine, Paige Goodwin, Emily Halstead, Maya-Lhanze Lama, Yanis M’zali, Kim Paulin, Leonard Raimbault, Robin Tocqueville-Perrier, Riya Verma, Chloe Villaret John Donne warned, “No man is an island.”1 The COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder not only of the interconnectedness of humans to each other, but also to their environment. Guided by the short-term imperatives of a globalised system, growth and productivi

Sustainable Tourism in Kyoto Protecting the Tourism Sector with Enhanced Data Management in the COVID-19 Pandemic Ayaji FUJITA, Chiaki ONITA, Hiep DO Hoang, Norman TAN , Striratna NITYAHAYU Graduate School of Public Policy The University of Tokyo Project Summary COVID-19 has placed tremendous strain on Kyoto’s tourism sector. Previous concerns about having too many tourists in the city have been replaced by the dire need to preserve the industry. Travel restrictions have virt

Summary Project Waste-to-Energy Recovery: Developing Blended Finance & Partnership Scheme to Unlock the Potential of Municipal Organic Waste Management in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond Aiming to improve conditions amidst COVID-19, we proposed to develop a Waste-to-Energy (WtE) project in Buleleng, Bali, Indonesia. This regency relies heavily on tourism sector, it therefore inevitably needs to find a new source of growth. The increase in the amount of waste coupled with many imp

Vaccine hesitancy remains a problem. Patrick Sturgis (LSE), Ian Brunton-Smith (University of Surrey) and Jonathan Jackson (LSE) find that people who live in societies where trust in science is high, are more confident about vaccination. While there is much that we are yet to understand about the coronavirus, on one issue there is near universal agreement amongst experts – we will not return to normal life until the majority of the world’s population has been vaccinated. An in

Columbia University's Journal of International Affairs holds the Andrew Wellington Cordier Contest and the Global Public Policy Network Contest biannually, featuring winning authors in the print issue and issuing a $500 prize. Since 2019, the Journal has held a visual arts contest, issuing a $250 prize. The next issue focuses on urbanization and international affairs. This issue seeks to provide an enduring/definitive examination of how the growth and proliferation of cities

This Minecraft replica of RCAST’s Building No. 13 was created by children in the ROCKET program. The University of Tokyo asked researchers to write one-page accounts of the coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of their own field of specialization. Professor Kenyuru Nakamura from the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) found that children who had previously refused to go to school, began attending online classes voluntarily during the coronavirus p