Refugee Fellows Program 2025 ($15,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: May 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Refugee Fellows Program 2025. This distinctive fellowship focuses on enriching and supporting the prevailing advocacy efforts of rising forcibly displaced leaders world wide. The 2025 cohort is tailor-made to maximise the expansion of fellows and the impression of their work. The 12 months-lengthy program will be sure that fellows obtain sturdy assist for the advocacy targets they’re pursuing. Refugees International is dedicated to offering the mandatory instruments, sources, and entry to amplify refugee and displaced folks’s voices and drive change within the advocacy panorama.

Fellows might be formally affiliated with Refugees International. They will collaborate intently with Refugees International workers to assist their advocacy work. This could embody a Refugees International report and/or different types of evaluation and advocacy—together with externally revealed opinion items, occasions, direct advocacy with coverage makers, participation in worldwide donor and coverage boards, and/or media interviews.

Fellows will accomplice with Refugees International workers by the fellowship program and profit from peer-to-peer studying alternatives with different cohort members. Fellows will even obtain formal coaching on advocacy and communication expertise and methods from Refugees International workers members and consultants, along with alternatives for casual coaching. 

Benefits

• Fellows will obtain a $15,000 grant in 4 quarterly installments all year long, for working as much as seven hours every week.

Eligibility

• Open to candidates from all international locations. However, precedence might be given to rising forcibly displaced people working in areas, international locations, and on themes that align with Refugees International’s present advocacy priorities. These could embody contexts the place Refugees International is actively engaged or the place there are crucial gaps in refugee and displacement-associated advocacy that the group seeks to handle.
• English language competency is most popular for the last word success of the fellowship program in order that fellows could interact with all elements of Refugees International work and workers. Competency in different key advocacy and native languages additionally most popular.
• This is a distant program, so candidates will need to have their very own pc and web entry to take part.
• Fellows will need to have a checking account to which the grant may be transferred in adherence with U.S. regulation.

Application

To apply, candidates should full an application type and submit the next:

• Answers to 2 brief-type questions (400 phrases every).
• A Resume.
• Names and speak to particulars of three skilled references.
• A short work plan for the fellowship 12 months.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Refugee Fellows Program.