Wangari Maathai Fellowship 2025 for Tanzanians

Deadline: April 18, 2025

Applications are open for the Wangari Maathai Fellowship 2025. The Climate Hub Tanzania with beneficiant help from Climate-KIC is worked up to announce the launch of the Wangari Maathai Fellowship, a transformative initiative aimed toward empowering younger leaders obsessed with environmental sustainability and local weather adaptation.

Named after Wangari Maathai who was a Kenyan environmentalist and the primary African lady to win the Nobel Peace Prize and founding father of the Green Belt Movement, this fellowship seeks to uphold her imaginative and prescient by equipping younger Tanzanian leaders with important data, mentorship, and monetary help to drive impactful local weather motion of their communities.

Climate change consciousness is essential, however motion is crucial for significant affect. The Wangari Maathai Fellowship was shaped by way of insights gained from earlier experiences with younger local weather leaders, the place they recognized a monetary hole hindering their potential to implement neighborhood-pushed local weather options. To bridge this hole, this fellowship is designed to supply data, mentorship, and challenge monetary help to empower leaders, strengthen local weather resilience, promote coverage engagement, and foster grassroots environmental activism.

Fellowship Components

Formal Learning: Fellows will have interaction in structured coaching classes, each in-individual and digital, to boost their data of local weather coverage, advocacy, challenge improvement, private improvement, and implementation methods.

Hands-on Project Implementation: Fellows will design and execute a Climate Action Impact Project, addressing a key environmental problem of their neighborhood.
Networking & Policy Engagement: Fellows may have alternatives to take part in local weather occasions, work together with policymakers, and contribute to local weather discussions.
Project Financial Support: Each fellow will obtain a sub-grant to help their challenge, alongside mentorship from local weather consultants and neighborhood leaders.

Benefits

The fellowship offers 10 chosen fellows with monetary sub-grant of €500 every for local weather challenge implementation along with skilled mentorship, and ability-constructing alternatives to advance local weather resilience initiatives.
Fellows will develop experience in local weather schooling, environmental governance, coverage advocacy, private improvement, and sensible challenge implementation.

Eligibility

Applicants should be: