Heinrich Böll Foundation Feminist Foreign & Development Policy Fellowship 2025 (Funded)

Applications are open for the Heinrich Böll Foundation Feminist Foreign & Development Policy Fellowship 2025. The fellowship goals to help feminist specialists from the Global South to be a part of 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 even focus critically on how one can greatest advance a feminist overseas coverage – a framework that has been below scrutiny within the final 12 months.

The key goals of this fellowship OPPORTUNITY are:

• To present a studying and networking expertise for rising feminist leaders in improvement and overseas coverage. As a outcome, individuals will probably be higher capable of pursue their coverage and advocacy goals and faucet into a worldwide community of like-minded change-makers;
• To allow extra intergenerational and cross-regional debate on feminist improvement and overseas coverage;
• To function a mechanism by way of which rising feminist leaders can determine points that require additional debate and/or advocacy, and the place trade between related actors will be facilitated.

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; as much as 6 nights of lodging in New York City; and well being/journey insurance coverage. Selected meals may even be supplied.
• Visa Processing: If wanted, the Foundation will help the visa software course of by offering an official a call for participation and can cowl visa charges. Note that the Foundation can’t assure that visas will probably be processed in time.
• Visibility and Platform: Before the CSW, chosen fellows will probably be promoted on social media channels to create a visual on-line platform round their goals and to amplify necessary 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 periods and strategizing workshops forward of CSW, networking occasions, bi- and multilateral conferences, in addition to casual periods for trade throughout CSW.

Eligibility

• They search candidates who’re rising or skilled leaders and activists within the fields of overseas and improvement coverage, with a particular feminist give attention to points corresponding to human rights, reproductive rights, or decolonial struggles, amongst others. Qualified candidates will probably be actively engaged in creating and shaping feminist improvement and overseas 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 improvement coverage on the bottom);
  • as elected officers or coverage advisors at native, state, nationwide, or supra-regional degree (e.g. implementing feminist overseas & improvement coverage, Women, Peace & Security agenda);
  • as college students, researchers, or lecturers in academia or assume tanks (e.g. researching ladies’s and queer rights and illustration with a global lens);
  • as entrepreneurs within the non-public sector (e.g. creating artistic options in help of gender equality and girls’s and queer human rights).
• They reserve a certain amount of seats for candidates who’re younger feminists (between the ages of 21 and 35) and who haven’t but attended a CSW prior to now. Also contemplating extra skilled profiles, they hope to create an area that encourages studying and trade throughout the group. They additionally encourage HBS associate organizations with or with out CSW expertise to use and point out their connection to HBS of their software.
• In 2025, they’re looking for candidates primarily based in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Caucasus Region, and Eastern Europe.

Application

Applications ought to include:

• Resume: Use a normal US format. Standard US resumes don’t embrace photos or marital/familial standing and have a most of two pages. Indicate your age, as they reserve some fellowships for candidates aged 21-35.
• Challenge / motivational assertion: Write a brief (max 300 phrases) reflection on the most important problem you see for the motion in the direction of gender equality or ladies’s rights proper now. How do you plan to cope with it and what are concrete steps that you’re at the moment taking? How will your participation on the CSW enable you in navigating these challenges?

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For extra info, go to Heinrich Böll Foundation Fellowship.