Bridget Golob
Intern
Bridget, a native of Los Angeles, is a current intern at Evidence for Development. She is pursuing an MA in Conflict, Security & Development at King’s College London. This June, she graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with a BA in Geography and Romance Languages and a minor in Government.
Bridget has worked on development and capacity-building projects in Nicaragua, Peru and Tanzania related to environmental sustainability, health, emergency management and food security. Last year, she served as a policy intern with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. She speaks French and Spanish and is learning Swahili.
Bridget broadly aspires to use her experience in development and policy to pursue a career shaping improved global engagement. She is excited to be supporting Evidence for Development’s work on poverty assessment and policy research. Some of her projects will be based on promoting digital engagement and advocacy.
Selected EfD blog posts
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14th April 2015
Six challenges and opportunities for a better post-2015 development data revolution
The data revolution in international development continues to draw attention and take shape as the third annual International Conference on Financing for Development approaches in Addis Ababa this July. At Evidence for Development, the pursuit of strong data and baselines for programme design, monitoring and evaluation is central to our work in measuring and supporting...
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18th December 2014
Refugees' livelihoods are important
Almost 15 years after the UN General Assembly proclaimed 18 December to be International Migrants Day (IMD), how has the occasion been received and observed, whose rights does it champion, and which groups does it currently exclude? Migrants and refugees: what’s the difference? In December 2000, two global days of observance related to migration were...
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11th November 2014
Mobile data, measurement & evidence… what’s new?
As mobile data collection in remote regions and developing countries becomes more viable for development organisations, the robustness of the methodologies used must be considered in relation to the goal of evidence-based development. Expanded possibilities According to the UN International Telecommunication Union, “by the end of 2014, 55% of all mobile-broadband subscriptions are expected to...