What happens after interning at Oxfam Novib? The Alumni blog series is all about students who have finished their internship as part of the Oxfam Novib Academy. I recently graduated with an MA in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. During my Masters degree, I interned at Oxfam Novib with…
We are looking for interns to start in September 2017 in the following areas: 1. Private sector & food value chains campaigning 2. Communication to increase the visibility of our Female Food Heroes 3. Support to the Land Rights Now Campaign 4. Communication and influencing on youth and employment 5. Youth Employment 6.…
Last week on May 8, us the Oxfam Academy students, had an interesting workshop delivered by our fellow intern, Saskia Geurtzen. The topic was about innovation. A term which is so often used today by organizations or businesses whose importance goes further to not only create competitive edge, but as a requirement to survive in…
Did you know that secure land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities are a tested, cost-effective and practical solution to climate change? Indigenous Peoples and local communities are protecting rainforests, pasturelands, alpine deserts, small farms and wetlands all across the world. However, without secured land rights, they are vulnerable for eviction and land grabbing…
Have you ever played cat and mouse as a child and never wanted to stop? I might have a career path for you. Lobbyist. Granted it might be a little more complex than that to be a Lobbyist, but during the workshop that tax expert and lobbyist for Oxfam Novib, Francis Weyzig, gave last week…
This week we had a workshop on Visual Note-Taking (VNT) with Nynke Kuperus from the Impact Measurement and Knowledge Team. The core idea of VNT is to instead of taking dreadful and timeconsuming notes you instead visualize your notes with drawings and symbols. By doing so, it is believed that you process the content better by…
For more than two months we have now been interns at Oxfam Novib. All of us are doing very different things, working on very different themes. The teams we work in may know what we are working on to some extent – this also differs per intern – but there are many more people working in the…
Last week I racked my brain over two related questions: how to influence people? And, how to measure the influence you have? During an expert meeting on ‘measuring influencing’, organized by Oxfam Novib, I attended the very interesting workshop of the most unusual suspect among the presenters: neuromarketer Jelle Demanet from market research agency iMPULSE.…
During my first week of internship here at Oxfam Novib I was advised to approach some colleagues in order to learn more about their work and their experiences in the organization. I invited some people from my team for quick meetings because I was curious about absolutely everything. The first of those meetings was with…
When an exceptional disaster occurs, eleven cooperating aid organizations work together as Giro 555. Giro 555 is a part of the Emergency Appeals Alliance (EAA), which is a global partnership in which organizations from 10 different countries are connected and by which they are able to share knowledge and resources for overseas emergencies. On the…
At this point in time, I am an intern at Oxfam Novib for already 2 months. As part of the Food, Land, and Water unit, I am currently researching the nexus between resource governance and agribusiness in fragile and conflict-affected areas and states. The goal of my research is to understand how an NGO like…
There have been a plethora of books and blogs about simplifying recently. Simplify your life, your routine; your kitchen and every other area of your life. There is something to be said about our attraction to these types of blog posts which promises “20 hacks” to make mornings faster. Our lives are packed with meetings…
