Deadline: November 26th 2023 | Rise Up Launches Nigeria Leadership And Advocacy Accelerator Program
| Title; | Rise Up Launches Nigeria Leadership And Advocacy Accelerator Program |
| Organisation: | Rise Up |
| Fund/Grant: | Accelerator Program |
| Deadline: | 26th November 2023 |
| Eligible countries: | Nigeria |
In order to promote gender equity and justice in 2024, Rise Up is inviting a number of local Nigerian civil society leaders to take part in the Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator training programme.
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By giving leaders the tools, resources, and training they require to fortify their organisations, drive change in their neighbourhoods, and enhance state, federal, and local impact by enhancing financing and programmes for women and girls, Rise Up enables leaders to have a greater effect. Rise Up will choose 25 leaders from Nigeria’s civil society through a competitive selection process to take part in an intensive Advocacy and Leadership Accelerator. This will help them win policy changes that will increase women’s and girls’ access to economic, health, and educational opportunities in Abuja Federal Capital Territory, Nasarawa State, and Kaduna State.
Techniques
- Rise Up collaborates with women, girls, and allies to increase the impact of their work by giving them the tools, resources, and financial support they require to bring about significant change on a local and national scale. After receiving training, Rise Up Leaders use their newly acquired skills to mentor other community members and develop their own plans to promote gender justice and equity and enhance the lives of women, girls, and everyone in their communities.
- Strengthen Leaders: Rise Up Leaders will take part in a week-long Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator course between March 3–9, 2024, after a demanding selection procedure. Through increasing access to economic, health, and educational opportunities, participants in this intensive training programme will learn how to improve the lives of women, girls, and gender nonconforming individuals in their communities. They will also learn how to develop proposals and budgets, build resilient teams, improve messaging, and engage in political mapping.
- Invest in Local Solutions: Rise Up Leaders can apply for competitive grant funding to start their advocacy strategies to improve health, education, and economic opportunity in Nigeria after completing the Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator. They support initiatives that centre on economic opportunities, like promoting financial inclusion for women and girls by granting them access to credit, providing them with leadership and employment opportunities, and defending their ownership and inheritance rights over land.
- Cultivate Movements with Women, Girls, and Allies: Rise Up assists leaders in establishing connections with colleagues, sponsors, decision-makers, and affiliated institutions. For Rise Up Leaders to develop and effect change, as well as for the movement they are co-creating, they must broaden their networks with partners and donors. In order to strengthen leaders’ voices, Rise Up also gives them access to conferences, speaking engagements, and continuing mentoring.
Eligibility
- The following requirements must be fulfilled by qualified applicants:
- leaders in the civil society who are between the ages of 18 and 60.
- Currently employed in the Nigerian states of Abuja FCT, Nasarawa, or Kaduna.
- Own a personal stake in and a dedication to advancing gender parity in the three main areas of girls’ and women’s health, education, and economic opportunity. Rise Up is especially interested in leaders that concentrate on economic prospects for this cohort. Examples of such leadership include promoting financial inclusion for women and girls by giving them access to credit, training, and leadership chances, as well as property ownership and inheritance rights.
- Represents or closely collaborates with women and girls with disabilities, members of racial and/or religious minorities, members of socially and economically marginalised communities, and other historically underprivileged groups.
- Possibility of attending an in-person workshop with some virtual pre- and post-workshop sessions from March 3–9, 2024. Rise Up will pay for all program-related expenses, such as travel, housing, meals, supplies, and internet usage.
- Presently hold a position of administration or coordination and some degree of decision-making authority at a government, media, civil society, or nonprofit organisation.
- Obtain permission from your organization’s leadership to take part in the Advocacy and Leadership Accelerator.
- Rise Up mandates that organisations be properly registered in the nation and configured to accept foreign funding in order for them to be eligible for a grant. A fiscal sponsor or another financial institution may sponsor an entity that is not registered. Note: This programme does not allow grants to be given to government organisations.
- competent in both written and spoken English.
For more information, visit Rise Up.
