African Young Women Leaders (AfYWL) Fellowship Programme 2025 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: June 1, 2025

Applications are open for the African Young Women Leaders (AfYWL) Fellowship Programme 2025. The African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme gives an attention-grabbing 12-month task with UNDP at its HQ in New York or in one in every of its regional or nation workplaces.

The AfYWL Fellowship Programme is a partnership beneath the framework of the AUC Chairperson’s One Million Next Level Initiative, which goals to offer alternatives for African youth in the important thing areas of Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship and Engagement, and mainstream youth and girls in key growth areas. This thrilling partnership goals to construct a brand new era of younger African ladies leaders and specialists to serve Africa and the world in designing and implementing growth programmes within the context of the SDGs and Agenda 2063. The Fellowship Programme will discover completely different areas of growth inside the six strategic influence areas of UNDP’s Renewed Strategic Offer in Africa: Natural Resource Governance; Youth and Women’s Employment and Empowerment; Structural Economic Transformation; Sustainable Energy; Climate Change; and Peace and Security.  

They are on the lookout for as much as 40 gifted younger African ladies to hitch the fourth cohort of this 12-month fellowship programme. As an AfYWL Fellow you can be assigned with a UNDP workplace beneath a studying and growth programme. You will embark on a journey the place you have to to exhibit agility and flexibility to an setting and an task the place your abilities and potential shall be leveraged. Applicants needs to be prepared to simply accept any location provided in both HQ, Country or Regional workplace (no hardship areas).

Responsibilities

Key areas of obligations might embrace:

• Collection and evaluation of information and analysis on SDGs and Agenda 2063;
• Experimentation on promising areas of innovation across the six influence areas of UNDP’s Renewed Strategic Offer in Africa;
• Drafting analysis papers, stories and shows;
• Participating in inner and exterior conferences and conferences;
• Supporting the implementation of tasks and initiatives on gender, youth, local weather change, resilience and safety amongst others;
• Participating in discipline missions as required;
• Providing help and liaising with authorities officers and varied stakeholders.

Benefits

• Each fellow will obtain a month-to-month stipend to help lodging and primary residing prices at their respective responsibility station. In addition, paid depart and an earmarked studying price range shall be allotted for endeavor related studying and growth actions.
• The Fellowship programme will cowl bills associated to journey and medical insurance coverage for the guy solely. Note that the Fellowship Programme doesn’t cowl allowances, or any bills associated to your loved ones members (journey, visa, education, medical health insurance, and so on.).

Eligibility

• Applicants will need to have accomplished Master’s diploma or equal in Economics, Political Science, Business Administration, International Relations/Development, Law, Communications, Digitalization or different associated growth discipline.
• Maximum cumulative two years (submit bachelor/postmaster diploma) of related and paid working expertise in analysis, evaluation and programme/challenge growth, implementation and administration.
• Strong working information of English is required.
• Proficiency in at the least one further AU working language (Arabic, English, French, Portuguese or Spanish) is a bonus.
• Female candidates accepted solely.
• National of an African Union member state.
• Maximum age of 30 on the date of application.
• Available in 2025/2026 to dedicate 12 months for a fellowship task.
• Available late 2025 to relocate to responsibility station and begin the Fellowship task.
• Willing to reside and work outdoors nation of residence on an task which leverages in your abilities & potential.
• Understanding of, and curiosity in, poverty eradication, sustainable structural transformation, the SDGs and Agenda 2063.
• Capacity to collect complete data on advanced issues or conditions, and skill to judge and analyze data precisely as a way to establish key points and options.
• Additional experience and background in digital transformation, strategic partnerships and communications, growth intelligence and innovation can even be thought of. 

Application

To provoke your application, you have to:

• Copies of your Passports for add. If you don’t maintain a passport, a replica of your nationwide ID will be uploaded. If you maintain a number of nationalities, add copies of all passports/ nationwide IDs.
• Copies of your educational levels (tertiary schooling/ Master and Bachelor from duly accredited increased schooling establishment for add).

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For extra data, go to AfYWL.