Call for Applications: ILA Leadership Development Training 2025 – YOA

Deadline: April 5, 2025

Applications are open for the ILA Leadership Development Training 2025. The Academy, with help from the Government of Japan, invites purposes for complete specialised management growth coaching set to happen in three cohorts in 2025. Are you a younger visionary chief dedicated to driving constructive change within the IGAD area? Do you aspire to steer with integrity, innovation, and influence? If your solutions to those are constructive, then this OPPORTUNITY is for you!

Anchored in IGAD Leadership Academy (ILA) progressive curriculum, this intensive coaching is designed to equip rising leaders from the IGAD area with the talents, values, and strategic insights wanted to sort out governance challenges and drive transformation. The cohort-primarily based coaching will deal with specialised facets of management.

Benefits

The coaching is a chance to:

• Gain reducing-edge management abilities rooted in African management philosophies and international greatest practices.
• Learn from one of the best management consultants, policymakers, and mentors.
• Develop competencies and abilities in good governance, peacebuilding, know-how, gender responsive management, and extra.
• Be part of a powerful community of future regional leaders and alter-makers.
• Join ILA Alumni Network and profit from peer-studying and collaboration to discover revolutionary options to widespread challenges.

Eligibility

The Training is open to Women and Youth from IGAD Member States (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda) who meet the next standards:

• Age: 18-35 years
• Bachelor’s diploma or equal expertise in governance, management, or associated fields
• Language: The coaching can be carried out in English. Applicants should, subsequently, be proficient in English
• Demonstrated dedication to moral management, regional cooperation, and growth, with a powerful curiosity in coverage, good governance, and sustainable peace
• Demonstrated dedication to creating a constructive influence of their communities, international locations, and the IGAD area
• Proven management expertise with robust communication and drawback-fixing abilities
• Willingness to journey to Kenya for the interval of coaching
• Availability for engagement in ILA actions in the midst of the 12 months and future
• Commitment to interact as an energetic member of the ILA Alumni Network, fostering collaboration and peer studying

Application

Interested candidates ought to submit:

• An in depth CV (Maximum three pages)
• A motivation letter (Maximum two pages or 1,000 phrases) outlining the next:
  • What evokes you to apply for this coaching, and the way does this programme align along with your management targets and imaginative and prescient?
  • Highlight previous management roles/initiatives and the influence you might have made in the neighborhood or nation.
  • A selected management-associated problem you want to deal with in your nation or the IGAD area.
  • How do you intend to make use of the data gained at ILA to deal with the problem in (iii) above or another management-associated challenges?
• Two suggestion letters from skilled and/or educational referees

Send your application by way of electronic mail to [email protected]. The topic of your electronic mail must be “ILA 2025 TRAINING”

For extra data, go to ILA Training.