Tekano/Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa Fellowship 2025 for young South African Changemakers. – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: June 13, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 Tekano/Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa Fellowship. The Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa (AFHESA) primarily based at Tekano is a management improvement programme for well being fairness in South Africa.  It is about strengthening the capacities of progressive social change leaders to deal with the deep social and financial inequities that characterise South Africa and that affect on the well being of its residents. It creates an area for Fellows to attach motion with a deeper understanding of the systemic causes of injustice; believing that an inclusive, equitable, economically productive and wholesome society comes from motion that addresses energy and privilege, the unequal distribution of sources and Opportunities, and equally challenges racism, classism, sexism and heteronormativity.  

The total Tekano Fellowship Programme works at strengthening the capacities of progressive leaders throughout inter-linked competency areas over the Fellowship interval and into lifelong Fellowship.  While these competencies kind the inspiration of the Tekano management improvement ‘ mannequin, it’s not on the exclusion of different vital competencies and is grounded in the ethos of neighborhood, collective and collaborative initiative.

Requirements

The fellows are changemakers who:

• Reside and/or work in South Africa. We welcome change leaders who reside or work in South Africa however come from different components of our home continent.
• A confirmed monitor document of management and dedication to social justice and well being fairness. Evidence of prior social change work and management in the type of testimonials from communities or establishments with whom you may have performed your social change work.
• Are dedicated to attending and collaborating in all actions of the fellowship programme and finishing required duties throughout the deadlines supplied.
• If employed, the guy’s employers ought to have expressed assist for participation in the fellowship. Written proof will likely be required and a dialogue with the employer will likely be held the place needed.
• Reflexive, emotionally mature and resilient leaders who can maintain complexity, contestation and contradictions.
• This yr, we’re significantly in leaders working in areas corresponding to well being system transformation and equitable entry, power, local weather and environmental justice and well being, spatial justice and well being, water justice and well being, digital well being, folks with abilities in analysis, feminist organising and motion constructing, entrepreneurship, public coverage and participation, Information Technology, campaigning, agenda setting advocacy, narrative work, regulation as a software to advance social justice, in addition to the scientific subject.

Benefits

• Access to management teaching, mentorship and experience to help with the conceptualisation or implementation of social change initiatives.
• Small-scale useful resource assist for ideation and implemention of social change initiatives.
• Financial assist to cowl all programme participation actions Only throughout the year-long induction section.
• Opportunity to community, collaborate and be part of a lifelong neighborhood of like-minded changemakers regionally and internationally.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Tekano/Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa Fellowship