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Intern - Monitoring and Evaluation

United Nations, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

NairobiInternship · Not statedCloses Sunday, 22 November 2026, 07:59 EATChecked 12 Nov 2026
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About this role

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Role overview

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Nairobi, Kenya, is offering a six-month unpaid internship in Monitoring and Evaluation within its Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme. This role is suitable for students or recent graduates interested in supporting justice system improvements and programme evaluation.

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What you will do

  • Support collection, verification, and organisation of programme data from partner institutions.
  • Assist in tracking progress against workplans, results frameworks, indicators, and targets.
  • Maintain and update monitoring and evaluation databases and programme tracking tools.
  • Help prepare monthly, quarterly, annual, and donor reports through data compilation and analysis.
  • Support data quality assurance and verification of activity reports.
  • Contribute to impact assessments, surveys, evaluations, and lessons learned exercises.
  • Assist in documenting programme achievements, outcomes, and recommendations.
  • Support planning, implementation, and follow-up of programme activities across partner institutions and counties.
  • Assist in coordinating meetings, workshops, training sessions, conferences, study visits, and stakeholder consultations.
  • Prepare meeting minutes, activity reports, attendance records, and action matrices.
  • Maintain programme and M&E calendars, activity schedules, and records.
  • Support communication and engagement with partner institutions and stakeholders.
  • Support research and compilation of information relevant to programme monitoring and learning.
  • Assist in consolidating and sharing findings, lessons learned, and good practices.
  • Support development and maintenance of knowledge repositories and documentation archives.
  • Organise and maintain electronic and physical filing systems for programme documents and reports.
  • Support preparation of communication products like success stories, newsletters, and social media content.
  • Assist in collecting and organising photographs, testimonials, and audiovisual content demonstrating programme impact.
  • Support review and dissemination of communication and visibility materials according to guidelines.
  • Provide logistical support for programme activities, meetings, workshops, and missions.
  • Assist in preparing administrative and procurement documentation.
  • Support maintenance of records relating to programme assets and inventories.
  • Undertake other programme and M&E-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Be enrolled in or have completed a graduate school programme (second university degree or higher), or be enrolled in or have completed the final year of a bachelor's degree programme.
  • Fluency in spoken and written English is required.
  • Knowledge of an additional official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) is an advantage.

Benefits

This is an unpaid internship. Interns are responsible for their own travel, visa, accommodation, and living expenses. There is no financial remuneration from the United Nations.

How to apply

Apply through the employer's official contact by the closing date of Sunday, 22 November 2026.

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