Young Impact Associates in Agri-Food Systems Fellowship 2025 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2025

Are you a younger African keen about driving transformational change via information-pushed choices in African agrifood techniques? Are you able to make a difference? Measure impression – Create change – Transform Africa’s agrifood techniques panorama? Join the Young Impact Associates (YIA) – Agriculture Focus Fellowship 2025 and be part of shaping Africa’s growth narrative.

The YIA Fellowship in Agrifood Systems is a 12 months-lengthy flagship program designed to organize a brand new technology of African leaders succesful to make a difference in the impression measurement discipline and contribute to driving transformative change in Africa’s agrifood panorama.

The YIA Fellowship in Agrifood Systems is carried out by a consortium of companions together with CIFOR-ICRAF, African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), and Akademiya2063.

Benefits

• Upon your profitable choice, you’ll be a part of the YIA Fellowship for one 12 months and obtain a month-to-month stipend all through this system’s length -12 months. The program will even cowl non-monetary gadgets, which might be detailed at the beginning of the Fellowship actions.
• Upon finishing the Fellowship, you’ll develop into a part of the Mastercard Foundation world alumni, connecting you with a neighborhood of passionate people dedicated to main optimistic change in the continent.

Eligibility

• Open to nationals of Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda, residing in Africa;
• Must be aged between 18 and 35 years;
• Engaged in full-time, part-time work, self-employment, finding out, or unemployed;
• With an excellent command of each written and spoken English;
• Have a minimal of a diploma, bachelor’s diploma in related disciplines together with social sciences, agricultural sciences, economics, information sciences, environmental and local weather science, worldwide growth, coverage and governance, and so on.
• Mission-driven curiosity and keenness for the impression measurement discipline;
• Motivation and clear aspirations to leverage information-pushed approaches;
• Commitment to a 12-month full-time program participation.

Application

Applicants ought to have the required paperwork prepared earlier than beginning the application course of. These embody:

• An up to date CV (most 3 pages) together with the total names, electronic mail, and phone of two reference contacts.
• A one-web page motivation letter outlining the explanations for becoming a member of the YIA Fellowship, expectations {and professional} aspirations.

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For extra info, go to Young Impact Associates in Agri-Food Systems Fellowship.