Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: April 21, 2025

Applications are open for the Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship 2025. The GRASP Fellowship seeks to construct a vibrant, extremely linked, and intergenerational community of African girls coverage professionals from various disciplines to drive coverage change for equitable agri-meals techniques in sub-Saharan Africa.

Fellows can be drawn from various organizations together with authorities businesses, non-governmental organizations, academia, analysis organizations, the non-public sector, civil society, regional and sub-regional communities amongst others. The Fellowship targets African girls at completely different levels of their skilled careers who’re actively engaged find options that tackle gender inequalities in insurance policies.

Benefits

• Successful candidates, often called AWARD Policy Fellows, obtain personalized coaching in management, negotiations, gender, and agrifood techniques insurance policies. Coupled with mentoring, teaching, and peer studying assist, this coaching is designed to sharpen their expertise in analyzing insurance policies from a gender perspective and equip them to guide coverage processes.
• Fellows will get an OPPORTUNITY to apply their learnings and achieve arms-on expertise by designing and implementing coverage innovation tasks specializing in vital insurance policies of their alternative.

Eligibility

• Open to nationals of Ghana, Rwanda, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda.
• Resident in Africa for your complete period of the fellowship.
• Have a minimum of a grasp’s diploma in a related self-discipline in agrifood techniques.
• Have a minimum of ten years working expertise in agrifood techniques associated areas.
• Demonstrated curiosity and contribution to gender and coverage points at nationwide, regional, or continental ranges.
• Employed in nationwide and worldwide organizations, together with authorities businesses, non-governmental organizations, the non-public sector, improvement, civil society, regional and sub-regional communities, or academia.
• Not a Fellow of a earlier or ongoing AWARD Fellowship
• Satisfactory stage of proficiency within the English language to allow them to take part in coaching and different fellowship actions.

Application

The name for purposes closes at midnight on April 21, 2025, East Africa Time (GMT+3). Applications will NOT be accepted after this date.

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For extra info, go to GRASP.