East-West Center Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: April 18, 2025

Applications are open for the East-West Center Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship 2025. Now in its second yr, the Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship from the East-West Center and the Doris Duke Foundation will look at the important connections between meals safety, power methods, and management for the higher good.

Fellows will discover how management can strengthen methods that stability financial progress, useful resource availability, and lengthy-time period sustainability. From private meals safety to societal power transitions, they are going to examine methods for offering dependable entry to important assets. Through storytelling, exploring views, and immersive experiences, this system will foster significant conversations that unite completely different viewpoints and assist form a future the place meals and power methods are each dependable and sustainable.

Participants will come from a variety of backgrounds—spanning authorities, advocacy, communities, media and know-how, arts, and entrepreneurship—bringing a wide range of experiences and concepts. Through in-individual periods in Hawai‘i and Aotearoa (New Zealand), alongside Participants will come from a variety of backgrounds—spanning authorities, advocacy, communities, media and know-how, arts, enterprise, entrepreneurship, together with power and meals producers—bringing a wide range of experiences and concepts. Through in-individual periods in Hawai‘i and Aotearoa (New Zealand), together with common digital conferences, they are going to have interaction with main consultants and collaborative actions designed to develop their information, management capacities, and networks. The enduring expertise and connections they acquire will assist them drive constructive change of their communities and past.

Financial Support

• The Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship offers fellows with spherical-journey airfare to/from this system places, program charge and supplies, lodging, journey insurance coverage, meals, and a few relevant visa-associated prices (if required). This program is topic to postponement/cancellation attributable to prevailing and unexpected circumstances.

Eligibility

• 5 to 10 years {of professional} management expertise in any facet of meals and power methods, together with advocacy work in these sectors. Experience could comprise however isn’t restricted to: elected officers, authorities company representatives, advocacy group leaders, subject consultants, group and business leaders, artists, activists, and social and enterprise entrepreneurs.
• Past experiences or present work with a concentrate on the Indo-Pacific area.
• There isn’t any nation restriction to apply/take part within the IPFF.
• Applicants might be anticipated to have a fluent degree of English. Applicants are inspired to supply an English language take a look at rating (similar to IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC…) if out there.
• A present passport with validity by way of the top of 2026.
• Able to totally commit to 2 weeks of journey in October and November 2025 and one week in May 2026, plus common digital connections in between and a capstone venture to implement throughout and after this system.

Desired Qualification

• A minimal of three years of research in the next schooling establishment sanctioned by a level representing a full-time program of study is most popular however not required.
• Dedicated to supporting initiatives that deal with the wants of communities affected by world challenges.
• Proven capacity to work with individuals from completely different backgrounds and views.
• Willingness to be taught and check out new methods and approaches, and to face unfamiliar experiences with curiosity and openness to the method, in addition to to be challenged and prepared to push past their skilled consolation zone with a dedication to their private progress.
• Willing to have interaction totally in a spot-based mostly, motion-oriented, creatively demanding program.
• Strong verbal and written communication expertise to finish writing and public talking assignments with prime quality.

Application

Program Dates:

Program runs from October 2025 to May 2026

• Pre-Residency Virtual Sessions: October 13-26, 2025
• Honolulu, Hawai‘i: October 27-November 7, 2025
• Virtual Sessions: November 8, 2025-May 24, 2026
• Wellington, New Zealand: May 25-31, 2026

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship.