AWARD Climate Action (ACA) Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Applications are open for the AWARD Climate Action (ACA) Fellowship 2025. The AWARD Climate Action (ACA) Fellowship seeks to attain a twin objective of accelerating the variety of African ladies main local weather change motion and catalyze manufacturing of local weather options that work for ladies smallholders.

The Fellowship is designed to handle systemic gender inequalities and construct the management and technical capability of African ladies to guide the design and implementation of inclusive local weather options. Fellows will likely be drawn from various establishments, together with authorities companies, non-governmental organizations, analysis establishments, academia, civil society, and the non-public sector.

In this second cohort, the Fellowship targets excessive-potential African ladies from Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Senegal who’re actively working within the subject of local weather change adaptation and are enthusiastic about creating contextually related, gender-equitable interventions.

Fellowship Details

The Fellowship is a blended (digital and face-to-face interventions), non-residential program that will likely be delivered over a interval of two years and can embrace the next actions:

• Virtual and in-individual coaching occasions together with coaching in management, negotiation and intergenerational mentoring. They may even attend a course on the right way to combine gender in local weather change interventions.
• Group and particular person teaching
• Mentoring program
• Regular peer-to-peer studying classes
• Participate in common masterclasses
• Conceptualize and lead collaborative local weather tasks on gender and local weather adaptation often called Climate Research and Innovation Projects (CRIPs)
• Exposure on rising developments in gender, local weather change and agrifood methods
• Speaking alternatives to offer seminars and different occasions
• In-country function modeling occasions

Participants who full all of the Fellowship actions will obtain a certificates of Completion. The Climate Fellows may even be part of an elite community of specialists and meals methods champions together with AWARD nation chapters.

Eligibility

The Accelerating African Women’s Leadership in Climate Action Fellowship is open to candidates who meet the factors under:

• African ladies from Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Senegal.
• African ladies working numerous disciplines throughout gender and local weather change.
• Have a minimum of a grasp’s diploma in a related self-discipline in agrifood methods.
• Have a minimum of 5 years working expertise, demonstrated curiosity and contribution in gender and local weather change.
• African ladies at totally different levels of their skilled careers who’re actively engaged to find options to the consequences of local weather change.
• Participants working in nationwide and worldwide organizations together with authorities companies and non-governmental organizations, and the non-public sector.
• Applicants should reside in an African nation all through the Fellowship interval to be eligible.

Application

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For extra data, go to AWARD Climate Action (ACA) Fellowship.