Heinrich Böll Foundation Feminist Foreign & Development Policy Fellowship 2025 (Fully Funded to New York City)
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Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 Heinrich Böll Foundation Feminist Foreign & Development Policy Fellowship. The fellowship goals to assist feminist specialists from the Global South to be a part of these crucial discussions, present area, entry and expertise within the realm of worldwide establishments and join younger underrepresented voices to related decision-makers. Part of this system may also focus critically on how to finest advance a feminist international coverage – a framework that has been underneath scrutiny within the final 12 months. The fellowship will cowl members’ journey and lodging prices to attend the CSW, present passes to the CSW conferences, in addition to Opportunities to attend supplementary conferences and occasions tailor-made to the fellowship.
Requirements
Heinrich Böll Foundation search candidates who’re rising or skilled leaders and activists within the fields of international and growth coverage, with a particular feminist give attention to points akin to human rights, reproductive rights, or decolonial struggles, amongst others. Qualified candidates shall be actively engaged in creating and shaping feminist growth and international coverage in at the very least one of many following methods:
- as leaders and activists in civil society and grassroots organizations (e.g. supporting feminist approaches to growth coverage on the bottom);
- as elected officers or coverage advisors at native, state, nationwide, or supra-regional degree (e.g. implementing feminist international & growth coverage, Women, Peace & Security agenda);
- as college students, researchers, or academics in academia or assume tanks (e.g. researching girls’s and queer rights and illustration with a world lens);
- as entrepreneurs within the non-public sector (e.g. creating inventive options in assist of gender equality and ladies’s and queer human rights).
Program Details
- Travel to the US and take part on the 2025 CSW: All candidates should be accessible to journey to the US and take part on the CSW for a 5-day interval through the convention dates of March 10 – 21, 2025. The actual dates of the journey shall be set as soon as the CSW program is introduced.
- Engage in discussions and supply thematic inputs: Once chosen, fellows shall be requested to present a brief assertion/technique outlining what targets they goal to obtain on the CSW (e.g. an intervention throughout a particular occasion, focused networking on a particular problem, and so on.). During the change go to, members shall be requested to share their key insights and experience in private and non-private occasions, workshops and conferences. Participants are free to select CSW and NGO facet occasions how they see match however are anticipated to attend conferences and exchanges organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
- Active social media engagement: In the lead-up to, throughout, and after the CSW, members are anticipated to actively have interaction with the Heinrich Böll Foundation over social media channels to report on their experiences. Fellows are anticipated to present fast and concise statements and messages from the occasions they attend to share classes amongst one another and with a broader public. The Foundation may also publish a profile of every participant on the web site of its Washington DC office and its Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy web site.
- Be a part of a rising community: Candidates ought to apply not solely to take part within the CSW, however with the purpose of changing into a part of a rising community of feminist thinkers and “doers” who assist one another in advancing a brand new imaginative and prescient for world diplomacy and growth.
Benefits
- Travel Costs: The Heinrich Böll Foundation will cowl the price of worldwide flights; transportation to the departing and arriving airport, in addition to native transportation in NYC; up to 6 nights of lodging in New York City; and well being/journey insurance coverage. Selected meals may also be offered.
- Visa Processing: If wanted, the Foundation will assist the visa utility course of by offering an official a call for participation and can cowl visa charges. Please notice that the Foundation can not assure that visas shall be processed in time.
- Visibility and Platform: Before the CSW, chosen fellows shall be promoted on social media channels to create a visual on-line platform round their goals and to amplify vital political messages associated to the CSW.
- CSW Registration: The Foundation will facilitate convention registration and canopy associated charges.
- Skills and Network: The chosen fellows will get entry to the worldwide HBS community, introductory classes and strategizing workshops forward of CSW, networking occasions, bi- and multilateral conferences, in addition to casual classes for change throughout CSW.
Application Procedure:
Regional background: in 2025, we’re in search of candidates based mostly in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Caucasus Region, and Eastern Europe.
Applications ought to include:
- Resume: Please use an ordinary US format. Standard US resumes don’t embody footage or marital/familial standing and have a most of two pages. Please point out your age, as we reserve some fellowships for candidates aged 21-35.
- Challenge / motivational assertion: Please write a brief (max 300 phrases) reflection on the most important problem you see for the motion in the direction of gender equality or girls’s rights proper now. How do you intend to cope with it and what are concrete steps that you’re presently taking? How will your participation on the CSW allow you to in navigating these challenges?
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