Intern - WFP Home Grown School Feeding Project

Join APHRC’s impactful internship program and dive into the WFP Home Grown School Feeding Project, where you’ll refine your data analysis skills and help improve nutrition for school children. If you hold a Master’s in Nutrition and thrive in qualitative and quantitative data, we want you. Apply now and help us strengthen local food systems.

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 21 – WFP Home Grown School Feeding Project – (1 intern)

Project Description

The project aims to improve school attendance and nutrition among children while supporting local agriculture and rural economies. By buying food directly from smallholder farmers, the program helps increase farmers’ incomes and strengthen local food systems.

Internship Activities

• Review of Tools.
• qualitative and quantitative data analysis

Preferred Background and skills

• Master’s in nutrition with quantitative or qualitative skills