Refugees International Summer Internship: Horn of Africa 2026 ($5,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: May 22, 2026

Applications are open for the Refugees International Summer Internship: Horn of Africa 2026. They search a Summer 2026 Intern to concentrate on the Horn of Africa, neighborhood documentation, and humanitarian evaluation. You will help RI’s work to doc the experiences of refugees, internally displaced individuals, returnees, host communities, advocates, service suppliers, and others affected by displacement crises throughout Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia.

When you be a part of them, you’ll be an integral contributor to a non-governmental group that advocates for lifesaving help, human rights, and safety for refugees and different displaced individuals. RI’s work on the Horn of Africa focuses on documenting the impacts of battle, local weather shocks, and displacement insurance policies throughout the area, elevating the experiences of individuals compelled from their properties, and supporting advocacy that advances entry to security, dignity, and sturdy options.

Responsibilities

• Support RI’s documentation and analysis associated to the Horn of Africa, together with the Sudan struggle, displacement in Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan, and their impacts on refugees, internally displaced individuals, host communities, and the organizations that serve and help them;
• Track challenge duties, manage analysis supplies, preserve shared analysis paperwork, help comply with-up, and assist coordinate ongoing challenge wants;
• Monitor related developments within the Horn of Africa, together with battle dynamics, regional safety frameworks, local weather-pushed displacement, and neighborhood-based mostly responses to humanitarian crises;
• Draft brief memos, summaries, background supplies, outreach language, and different written merchandise as wanted.

Benefits

• Interns will obtain a $5,000 stipend

Eligibility

• Be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate scholar, or have not too long ago graduated inside the previous yr;
• Seek the internship as part of an academic expertise associated to this system wherein you’re enrolled;
• Have a robust curiosity within the Horn of Africa, displacement and migration coverage, refugee safety, neighborhood documentation, storytelling, human rights, and humanitarian affairs;
• Have familiarity with battle-pushed displacement, regional safety frameworks, neighborhood-based mostly advocacy, or archival/storytelling work. Lived expertise is welcomed however not required;
• Have sturdy analysis, writing, organizational, communication, and administrative abilities;
• Be thinking about moral documentation practices, together with oral histories, digital proof, written accounts, quantitative knowledge, and neighborhood-centered approaches to preserving lived expertise;
• Be based mostly inside the United States;
• Work no less than 250 hours, as guided by RI employees;
• Begin in late May 2026 and finish no later than late August 2026;

Application

To apply, embody your resume, cowl letter, and a one- to 2-web page writing pattern. Applications must be submitted by May 22, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Only candidates chosen for an interview can be contacted by Refugees International.

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For extra info, go to Refugees International Summer Internship.