The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Youth Leaders (YoLe) Fellowship Programme 2025 for young Ghanaians.

Application Deadline: 18th April, 2025.

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 UNFPA Youth Leaders (YoLe) Fellowship Programme. The YoLe Fellowship is a one-year programme that goals to empower young, revolutionary change-makers who’ve lately graduated from tertiary establishments in Ghana and positively impacting their communities. The programme offers coaching and mentorship on Leadership, Sustainable Development, Peace, Human Rights, and modern and rising points. Since its inception in 2018, the YoLe Fellowship Programme has educated and mentored a number of young individuals in six cohorts, addressing gaps in youth management and growth whereas contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Eligibility Requirements

Through an internet name for functions, the Programme targets graduates aged 18 –30 years from tertiary establishments in Ghana. Youth leaders, individuals dwelling with incapacity, young girls, weak and marginalised young persons are inspired to apply in order that ‘no young person is left behind’. The Fellows are chosen by way of a rigorous choice course of. The applicant have to be:

Aged between 18 – 30 years
A graduate of a tertiary establishment.

Able to decide to the Fellowship length absolutely (one 12 months), on-site on the UNFPA Ghana Country Office, Accra.
Fellows withdrawal earlier than Nine months within the Fellowship is not going to be awarded the Fellowship Certificate.
Proactive and possesses sturdy interpersonal abilities

Proficient in English (working information of English) — essential for basic communication functions. All application supplies have to be submitted in English).
Passionate about Leadership, Sustainable Development, Peace and Human Rights to drive change in all sectors together with Social Entrepreneurship which incorporates agribusiness, innovation, and synthetic intelligence (AI) and display a need to make a difference of their group
Demonstrate curiosity and dedication to growth points and keen about contributing in direction of Ghana’s aspirations on Agenda 2030

Demonstrate affiliation with youth group/community, volunteer or work expertise, in areas of UN and UNFPA’s mandate.

Benefits

SPACE TO INCUBATE

To assist advance the aims of the Fellowship, an ultra-modern collaborative area, The Orange Loft, was constructed and tailor-made to swimsuit the wants of the Fellows offering them the area for on-line and in-person coaching periods, offering Fellows a artistic area to innovate, an internet station to debate points in addition to a recreation area to facilitate workforce bonding by play.

MENTORSHIP
The Fellowship has in place a mentorship element that’s designed to facilitate skilled information switch and publicity for the Fellows. Fellows are connected to excessive degree professionals to construct their capacities and supply steerage on their profession paths.

POLICY AND STRATEGY ALIGNMENT
The programme is designed in step with UNFPA’s mandate to make sure that ‘every young person’s potential is fulfilled’, and the United Nations’ Youth Strategy (2030) to ‘increase impact and expand global, regional and country-level action to address the needs, build the agency, and advance the rights of young people in all their diversity’.

TRAINING/CAPACITY BUILDING
Fellows undertake professionally coordinated coaching periods overlaying areas equivalent to Research, Reporting, Proposal Development and Concept Note Writing, social media and Networking, Business Model Canvas Development, Data Visualization and Presentation, Human-Centred Design and Tech Innovations within the COVID-19 period, Public Speaking, Conferencing and Logistics Planning, Gender Equity in Innovation. Soft Skills coaching equivalent to Data-Driven Decision Making, Emotional-intelligence, Web and app growth, Innovation, Business Modeling, and Digital productiveness instruments. The Fellowship offers members with coaching on the way forward for work and entrepreneurship, and employability abilities.

DEPLOYMENT TO UNITS AND INTERNSHIP

Fellows are assigned to models throughout the Country Office to achieve hands-on expertise with the work of UNFPA. In addition, Fellows undertake a compulsory one-month internship with different UN businesses, CSOs/NGOs, private and non-private establishments.

Program Duration