Deadline: December 1st 2023 | Echidna Global Scholars Fellowship Program 2024
| Title: | Echidna Global Scholars Fellowship Program 2024 |
| Organisation; | Echidna Giving’s and Brookings |
| Fund/Grant; | Fellowships |
| Deadline; | December 1st 2023 |
| Eligible countries: | Global South Nations |
The Centre for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings’ Echidna Global Scholars Programme aims to catalyse and magnify the impact of regional leaders working to advance gender-transformative education throughout the Global South.
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Echidna Global Scholars develop their leadership and evidence-based policy skills over the course of a six-month fellowship, conduct individual research aimed at enhancing learning opportunities and life outcomes for girls, young women, and gender non-conforming people, increase their pathways for impact, and develop their knowledge of gender and global education issues. Scholars join the Echidna Alumni Network after completing the fellowship, a developing community of practise that aims to promote their considerable, ongoing, and combined influence on gender-transformative education both locally and globally.
The Echidna Global Scholars Programme was founded in 2012 and has since hosted eleven cohorts of fellows. It now maintains a network of alumni made up of 33 scholars from 20 different nations.
This programme is made possible thanks to Echidna Giving’s kind donation.
Programmed Stages
The fellowship for Echidna Global Scholars comprises three separate phases:
- Pre-residency (in home country): With assistance from the Centre for Universal Education (CUE), academics start a time of rigorous in-country data gathering and analysis. This is supplemented by a number of online workshops, group working meetings, and one-on-one advisory sessions. Scholars begin creating their impact plan by identifying and interacting with local stakeholders from their home country. They are also exposed to the leadership principles and techniques that will be the focus of the leadership development programme during the fellowship.
- Washington, D.C. residency: Scholars concentrate on broadening reach and impact through publication and dissemination of their research through Brookings’ multimedia platforms, strategic impact capacity building, leadership development, and networking. By teaching best practises for analysing, communicating, and leveraging research for policy and key audiences, as well as by expanding scholars’ networks and promoting visibility through Brookings convenings and strategic collaborations, the residency phase is intended to help scholars strengthen their impact. It culminates in a virtual symposium on gender equality in and through education research and policy.
- Post-residency (in home country): For the two years following post-residency, the CUE team offers specialised assistance to alumni as they carry out impact plans based on their research. Scholars use the knowledge, abilities, and connections developed throughout the fellowship to spark change in their regional contexts through strategic advice, group working sessions, and leadership development support.
Eligibility
- Mid-career leaders who have experience increasing learning opportunities and life outcomes for girls, young women, and gender non-conforming persons in and via education in the Global South are eligible to apply to become Echidna Global Scholars.
Certain requirements to qualify:
- Substantial knowledge of, ties to, and a determined desire to return to a Global South nation.
- A Master’s degree (or above) is necessary. You should have experience in education, development, public policy, economics, or a comparable social science or humanities field.
- 10+ years of experience working professionally in government, non-profit, community, or civil society organisations.
- A thorough knowledge of gender and educational development issues.
- Collaboration skills, a willingness to receiving and giving feedback, and the capacity and desire to learn quickly and adaptably are all desirable traits.
- Each and every Echidna Global Scholar is required to show competency in English.
Application
- All applicants must submit a 3-5 page proposal for a specially developed research project, along with a cover letter and CV, in order to be considered.
- This project’s goal is to increase the body of knowledge, enhance learning opportunities, and improve life outcomes for girls, young women, and gender non-conforming people in each applicant’s country.
For more information, visit Echidna Global Scholars.
