Interns - Consortium for Africa Cross-Border Evidence and Policy Sovereignty (CACEPS) Projects

Job Description

APHRC’s internship program offers entry-level professionals like you the chance to contribute to groundbreaking projects impacting Africa’s future. Work on real initiatives, sharpen your skills in data analysis, policy engagement, or even visual communication, and gain invaluable experience with a leading research institution. The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a premier research-to-policy institution, generating evidence, strengthening research and related capacity in the African research and development ecosystem, and engaging policy to inform action on health and development. The Center, through its Research and Related Capacity Strengthening (RRCS) Division, seeks to strengthen individual and institutional research capacity to enable African researchers to fully participate in defining and implementing priority population and health programs on the continent. As part of individual capacity strengthening efforts, APHRC has, over the years, been running a demand-driven research internship program whose objective seeks to nurture talented young Africans to become future scholars and research leaders. For the 2026 period, the Research and Related Capacity Strengthening (RRCS) Division has opened internship opportunities in the following projects for 3-6 months, starting May 2026.

Project Details

Project 22 – Consortium for Africa Cross-Border Evidence and Policy Sovereignty (CACEPS) (Work Package #2) – (1 intern)

Project Description

The Consortium for Africa Cross-Border Evidence and Policy Sovereignty (CACEPS) is a project under the Africa Union’s Africa Think Tank Platform (ATTP) expected to kick off in March 2026. It is led by APHRC (Kenya), in partnership with the Egyptian Centre for Economic Studies (ECES, Egypt), the Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED, Nigeria), the Centro de Integridade Publica (CIP, Mozambique), and the Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rural (IPAR, Senegal). At APHRC, the project is led by the Synergy Program, with collaboration from the Research Program and the Operations Division. The project will focus on different issues including climate change and food security, human development, and economic resilience and trade in Africa. The Nutrition and Food Systems Unit is ci-leading Work Package 2 of the project, focused on climate change and food security in Africa. This is the Work Package under which we are seeking to host an intern.

Internship Activities

• Training of field enumerators.
• Data collection using qualitative and quantitative approaches.
• Data analysis.
• Report writing.
• Scientific writing.
• Public engagement.
• Policy engagement.

Preferred Background and Skills

Background on Nutrition, food security, food systems, sustainability, climate change.