AWARD Leadership Program for Emerging African Women in Agricultural Sciences 2025

Deadline: February 12, 2025

Applications are open for the AWARD Leadership Program for Emerging African Women in Agricultural Sciences 2025. The program, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) and carried out by African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), seeks to construct a pool of succesful, assured, influential younger girls scientists geared up to excel in agricultural sciences, thrive in management roles, and champion gender integration in agriculture.

The competitively chosen profitable candidates will profit from a spread of alternatives to strengthen their management abilities, improve their capacities to successfully talk their work to numerous audiences, and amplify their visibility and networking abilities. The program is envisaged to equip them to beat institutionalized limitations to girls’s profession development and encourage them to remain in agricultural science careers. It will improve their consciousness of the significance of gender integration in agriculture sciences and the necessity to champion gender equality in agriculture professions.

Launched in 2020, the AWARD Leadership Program for Emerging African Women in Science attracts individuals from numerous biophysical and social science agriculture disciplines and organizations, together with authorities companies, non-governmental organizations, academia, analysis organizations, the non-public sector, and extra. To date, this system has reached 75 younger girls in science from 21 African international locations.

Benefits

• Participants will acquire management and mentoring coaching, entry to a community of execs, instruments for private branding, and alternatives to amplify their visibility by means of displays and media engagements.
• They will acquire abilities in gender-responsive agricultural analysis, enhancing their capability to win grants that promote gender equality.
• Overall, they are going to purchase abilities to speed up their profession development and have a extra satisfying and impactful profession in the male-dominated agriculture subject.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this Fellowship, candidates should meet all of the eligibility standards outlined under:

• Aged 35 years or youthful on the time of software;
• Have no less than a bachelor’s diploma or equal in any agricultural science self-discipline from a acknowledged college;
• Have no less than 5 years of agricultural sector expertise;
• Be a citizen of the next international locations: Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Malawi;
• Reside in Africa and be at present actively engaged in agriculture-related skilled work;
• Not a Fellow or Laureate of another Fellowships supplied by AWARD.

Application

The deadline for submission is February 12, 2025, 23:59 East Africa Time (GMT+3).

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For extra data, go to AWARD Leadership Program.