Africa Fellows in Education Program 2025/2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Africa Fellows in Education Program 2025/2026. The Africa Fellows in Education Program (AFEP) goals to deal with the native capability hole and enhance schooling determination-making throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. AFEP will help a community of native coverage fellows with enhanced expertise in evaluating present academic analysis, creating and utilizing efficiency knowledge to make higher choices, and introducing rigorous proof into the choice-making course of.

Having a community of extremely competent researchers throughout the area reinforces the worth of utilizing systematic proof in determination-making and helps broad coverage enchancment. Local skilled researchers may even kind a constituency for increasing and bettering the evaluation constructions in every nation. The Fellows will be capable to determine and produce excessive-high quality analysis utilized in academic determination-making. They may even grow to be energetic in outreach to policymakers and civil society actors and advocate for sound, analytically primarily based native insurance policies. 

In sum, the target of the AFEP is to construct a bunch of Africa-based leaders able to creating proof and shaping academic insurance policies related to their nations. These leaders can be part of a worldwide community of such individuals and will assist construct native networks of robust advocates for bettering faculties.

Funding

• The funding features a $35K analysis (money) grant. The program may even straight cowl as much as $25K in bills for mentorship, study visits, convention journey, and in-country workshops to share analysis findings and coaching.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this name, candidates should: 

• Be a nationwide of a Sub-Saharan African nation; 
• Have an MA or PhD diploma, ideally in Economics, schooling coverage, social/public coverage, improvement research or worldwide improvement, with a powerful concentrate on schooling. While a PhD just isn’t obligatory, GEAI and PEP encourage recent PhD graduates who can profit from mentorship and extra coaching to grow to be stable researchers;
• Be proficient in quantitative knowledge evaluation, with a powerful data of knowledge evaluation software program reminiscent of R and Stata;  
• Not be older than 35 years outdated; 
• Demonstrate curiosity in schooling coverage analysis and evaluation; 
• Work for the federal government or have an affiliation at both a analysis or larger schooling establishment in a Sub-Saharan African nation and intend to take action for the foreseeable future; 
• Qualified females are strongly inspired to apply.

Application

The Africa Fellows application course of is managed by GEAI in collaboration with PEP. The functions might be assessed primarily based on a number of components, together with prior preparation and the standard of an essay. The expression of curiosity by the candidates ought to embody:

• A two-web page assertion of curiosity; 
• A two-web page essay. The essay have to be ready in English. In this essay, the applicant should
  • both suppose and write a few particular schooling drawback in their home nation and the way it may very well be scientifically evaluated utilizing quantitative strategies. 
  • or write an essay responding to any of the questions underneath the 5 thematic areas of their associate establishment, Teaching on the Right Level (TaRL) Africa. Similarly, candidates should clarify how such questions may very well be scientifically evaluated utilizing quantitative or combined (quantitative and qualitative) strategies.
• An in depth and up to date CV with at the very least two (2) referees the choice committee can contact.

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For extra data, go to Africa Fellows in Education Program.