Peacebuilding Fieldwork Intern- CAMs Project

GCI- Cameroon is currently seeking enthusiastic and innovative interns for the CAMs Project!

GCI Mission The Global Conscience Initiative seeks to address and improve Cameroon's most pressing human rights issues: chiefly, corruption, abuse of prisoners' rights, gender inequality, civil liberty deficiencies, and lack of access to efficient and effective justice. Whereby promoting and protecting the human rights and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, GCI strives to participate in the construction of a strong global conscience, through which the citizens of Cameroon can work together to advance all human rights.

Based on the belief that lasting peace must come from within a people and their own culture, GCI focuses on working with individual citizens as well as the media, government bodies, local councils, law enforcement and judicial systems. By encouraging and empowering the public to play an active role in supporting peace and development, GCI strives to help strengthen the communities with which it works. Through this, GCI facilitates the creation of networks of conscientious organisations and individuals who work together to promote democracy and human rights.

About the CAMs Project

The Centres for Arbitration and Mediation (CAM's) Project has been one of GCI's cornerstone initiatives since its inception in 2008. Conceived in light of the various deficiencies of the Cameroonian legal system, CAM's seeks to develop an out-of-court conflict resolution mechanism for settlement of individual, community, and commercial disputes. By doing so, the Project will increase the rural, low-income population's access to effective and efficient justice in the Mbonge Subdivision of Southwest Cameroon through participatory education, socio-political initiatives, and a long-term working relationship between GCI and the partner villages.

The central aims of the CAM's project are:

• to improve the timeliness and quality of dispute resolution on the local level
• to help improve the work of the Quarter Councils
• to ease the strain on the urban judicial systems
• to reduce detention time and eliminate costly bail payments
• to improve gender equality through political participation and social leadership
• to reduce and or eliminate the incidences of jungle justice and arbitrary killings

About the Internship

As an intern with GCI- you will have the opportunity to work as a vital member of a small team to implement the CAMs Model of locally-focused, grassroots peacebuilding in villages in the Mbonge subregion of Southwestern Cameroon. You will work intimately with issues of Judicial Transparency, Mediation, Gender Equality, and Mob Justice-- with the possibility of developing and leading your own initiative! Interns are involved in all aspects of the organization, including development, administrative duties, fundraising, and fieldwork in the villages. Administrative duties are generally less than 20% of an interns work-load-- the vast majority of your work will be developing the CAMs project and implementing it in the field.

Mandatory Qualifications and Qualities

• Strong Written Communication
• Fluency in English
• Willingness to learn Cameroonian Pidgin
• Strong leadership skills
• Cross-cultural experience and sensitivity
• Creative problem solving
• Ability to self-direct and take initiative
• Experience working with project development and implementation
• Working towards B.A. or higher in PoliSci, Development, Law, International Relations, Anthropology, Conflict Resolution, or related field.

Desired Qualifications and Qualities

• Working Knowledge of French
• Developing World Experience
• Fundraising/ Grant-Writing experience

It is highly preferred that interns stay at least 3 months

Internship Fees

Internship Fees cover housing in Kumba, work-related transportation, and airport collection (in Douala)

1-4 weeks- 300,000 CFA

5-8 weeks- 500,000 CFA

8- 12 weeks- 650,000 CFA

each additional month- 150,000