Emily Nohner

Senior Project Coordinator (Former Employee)

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Emily worked with Feinstein in 2012-2014 as Senior Project Coordinator on the World Bank project, “Engaging Male Youth in Karamoja, Uganda,” and was stationed in Uganda.

Previously, she worked for Bread for the World Institute and spent the summer of 2010 as Interim Program Director for the Northern Uganda Remembrance Project.

She holds a B.A. in political science with minors in human rights and international studies from the University of Dayton in Ohio and a Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts.  As an undergraduate, she earned the Presidential Truman Scholarship for her commitment to Public Service and as one of the 75 nationwide recipients participated in a summer leadership program in Washington, DC.

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Engaging Male Youth in Karamoja, Uganda

This report presents new data on insecurity and changing livelihoods from the perspective of male youth in southern Karamoja, Uganda, and includes an evaluation of a pilot communication and relationship…

Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Principles, Power, and Perceptions

This report summarizes the findings of the first phase of a major research project on the challenges and compromises that are likely to affect humanitarian action in the next decade….

Mapping the Security Environment

The data presented and analyzed by the study in three cases-Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone-offers intriguing and provocative look at the wide-ranging security needs of local communities and the uneven…

The Quality of Money: Donor Behavior in Humanitarian Financing

Donor behavior represents a patchwork of policies and activities by individual governments, which taken together, do not provide a coherent or effective system for financing the international humanitarian enterprise. The…

FEINSTEIN RESEARCH PROJECTS

Engaging Male Youth in Karamoja, Uganda

Humanitarian Agenda 2015

Over the past three years, Tufts/FIC has conducted 12 country case studies on local perceptions of the work of humanitarian agencies. The objective was to understand, from the perspective of those most affected by crisis and conflict, whether humanitarian action was seen as responding to a universal imperative or as an externally-driven approach linked to Northern and Western agendas.