DefendDefenders  Safe Sisters Fellowship Programme 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 21, 2025

Applications are open for the DefendDefenders  Safe Sisters Fellowship Programme 2025. Safe Sisters is a fellowship program that builds the capability of Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs), civil society staff, journalists and media staff to know and reply to the digital security challenges that they face of their work and each day life.

This distinctive OPPORTUNITY brings collectively Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) and civil society individuals from throughout Africa for intensive coaching and networking whereas studying strategically make use of digital instruments throughout the spectrum of knowledge administration, content material growth, digital safety. The fellowship program is about empowering ladies and ladies engaged on human rights points to take management of their area on-line and data and share with different ladies. Participants have to be keen and capable of study in a quick-paced programme and may have the capability and dedication to finish the programme.

Benefits

• Participants will have the ability to take part in a workshop over a interval of 5 days, with DefendDefenders, to make sure that studying is tailor-made to the wants of the group.   
• The members will outline and work on their very own undertaking all through the course of taking part in the workshop and obtain help and mentorship in realizing their undertaking imaginative and prescient. 
• Participants may also develop into members of the alumni community after they’ve gone by the entire cycle, together with entry to mentors, creatives, protected sister sign group, a mailing checklist, e-studying alternatives, and precedence in subsequent occasions.  
• All prices associated to enabling participation within the workshop will likely be coated by DefendDefenders.
•  Participants shall be given the chance to apply for grants to implement their very own actions, following the profitable completion of the fellowship programme.

Eligibility

• Open to Women Human Rights Defenders from Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and Somaliland.
• Applicants should apply individually and have to be primarily based within the goal international locations.
• Their work ought to primarily be centered on promotion and safety of human rights.
• Have an current excessive affect digital undertaking or thought they want to deliver into the workshop and implement after the cycle of protected sisters. 
• Have an open thoughts to study and experiment with new digital instruments and ideas.  
• Applicants needs to be proficient in English (written, spoken and comprehension).

Application

• Phase 1: Fill out this application kind by March 21, 2025.
• Phase 2: Selection – Only shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted.
• Phase 3: Self-study.
• Phase 4: Preparation for the workshop. If you might be chosen to attend the workshops, you have to full a number of on-line assignments that will likely be assigned by the Safe Sister lead.
• Phase 5: The workshop – The workshop will happen from April 28 – May 2, 2025 except in any other case communicated.
• Phase 6: Mentorship – There will likely be mentorship and monetary/technical observe up help to alumni of the fellowship.

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For extra data, go to Safe Sisters Fellowship.