Acumen East Africa Fellows Program 2025 for emerging Leaders in East Africa (Fully Funded).

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Application Deadline: February seventh, 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 Acumen East Africa Fellows Program. The  East Africa Acumen Fellowship is a transformative program that brings collectively a cohort of extraordinary people with an entrepreneurial mindset and a dedication to resolve issues of poverty. We equip them with the instruments and group to strengthen their management, scale their influence, and create significant change in East Africa.

Through this system curriculum and a supportive cohort, individuals peel again notions of themselves as leaders and construct higher self-awareness. They hone their abilities to turn out to be higher crew leaders, genuine storytellers, and navigate values in pressure. They depart this system with the power to barter throughout variations, encourage themselves and others, problem conventional methods of working, and reshape the folks, organizations, and techniques round them. 

Program Structure

Fellows stay in their jobs and take part in a 6-month hybrid program consisting of digital classes, in-person immersives, and self-paced studying.

This is a high-level program overview:

• One 3-day digital Orientation
• Two 5-day full-time in-person immersives (8 hours of assignments for every immersive consisting of self-paced studying and group calls)
• Three Learning Labs  (4 hours every together with assignments)  

Eligibility Requirements

• You are a social entrepreneur or senior decision-maker fixing issues of poverty.
• You have 5 years of labor expertise (minimal) and are in a position to show dedication in the direction of fixing problems with poverty. On common Fellows have 10-15 years of labor expertise with 10 years engaged on issues of poverty.
• You have a dependable web connection and will probably be totally accessible to take part all through the whole lot of this system.
• Women and people who determine as or who serve Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDP) are inspired to apply.
• East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi, South Sudan, Somalia)

Benefits

• Once you’re chosen as an Acumen Fellow Candidate, Acumen covers all program-related bills through the Fellowship. This consists of all prices related to the immersives together with lodging and meals. Reimbursements can be found for journey to immersives if the individuals want to declare them.

Application Process

• Read the Applicant Toolkit
• Prepare for your application – Please learn the Application Toolkit to arrange your application.
• Submit the Online Application: January seventh, 2025

The application has been designed to grasp extra about you, your work and influence, in addition to your program readiness. Acumen encourage you to start out the application early.

• Participate in the Selection Conference: April tenth & eleventh, 2025

Shortlisted candidates are invited to take part in the Selection Conference, both in individual or nearly. 

• Start your Fellowship Journey: May 14th, 2025

The crew will notify chosen candidates, and help them as they begin their Fellowship journey.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Acumen East Africa Fellows Program