Clinton School students Anatoliy Shatkovskyy and Greg Cooper will complete their international projects this summer with the Canadian Urban Institute, a nonprofit that works to improve quality of life in urban in Canada and around the world. The students will work with urban development projects in the Ukraine and the Phillipines, respectively
The institute has announced its new partnership with the Clinton School on its web site:
CUI was invited in late 2010 to participate in the Clinton School’s International Public Service Project (IPSP). The IPSP is a component of the Master of Public Service degree program that is designed to provide students with practical experience. Students are placed within a host public service agency or organization located overseas or that has a global mandate to its work, for a minimum of ten weeks.
Clinton School students, Gregory Cooper (photo above, right) and Anatoliy Shatkovskyy (photo above, left) will be placed on CUI’s projects in the Philippines and in Ukraine, respectively. Gregory Cooper will work with local staff and partners on the Urban Partnerships Program-Philippines (UPP-P), which supports the local governments of the Metro-Iloilo Guimaras region to advance sustainable economic growth through improved bio-region management and disaster risk management initiatives. Anatoliy Shatkovskyy will be placed in Kyiv to support the Regional Governance and Development (RGD) Program in Ukraine that promotes regional economic development.
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