United Nations African Policy Innovation Fellowship 2025 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: June 20, 2025

Applications are open for the United Nations African Policy Innovation Fellowship 2025. The fellowship programme goals to assist fellows determine the interlinkages between totally different areas of sustainable growth and peace to assist activate a multiplier impact, remodeling their coverage proposals into triggers of sustainable growth and sturdy peace.

Upon completion of the fellowship, members are anticipated to have utilized the data and expertise acquired to design a coverage intervention that tackles growth challenges of their space of labor. UN entities will assist fellows in advancing the implementation of their proposals underneath the coordination of the UN RC system.

Benefits

• Subject to passable completion of the preliminary section of the Fellowship and the issuance of an acceptable visa by the host nation, an in-particular person part at UN Headquarters in New York is foreseen. During this section, Fellows shall be supported with a return air ticket, a month-to-month stipend, and medical cowl, topic to UN rules. 
• Note that the stipend is meant to assist fellows in protecting the prices of lodging, board and different necessities and isn’t meant as a wage or honorarium, or to assist fellows’ bills of their home nations.
• Payment of the ultimate month-to-month stipend is topic to the submission of all required paperwork for this section of the fellowship.

Eligibility

• Applicants are anticipated to be present junior to mid-stage civil servants of their home nations engaged in key ministries resembling finance and planning, vitality, agriculture, training, and homeland safety. 
• Applicants should have demonstrated work expertise in analysis/analytical work in socio-financial and political growth, commerce and funding, pure useful resource administration/legislation, regional integration, infrastructure growth, together with transportation, logistics, vitality, governance, peace, and associated areas within the context of Africa.
• The fellowship programme is concentrated on coverage analysis and evaluation. Thus, candidates are anticipated to have robust analytical, analysis, knowledge, communication, and interpersonal expertise.
• Applicants should have a sophisticated college diploma (Master’s or doctorate, or their equivalents) linked to the world of specialization contained of their undertaking proposals. A primary-stage college diploma together with two years of related work expertise could also be thought of in lieu of a sophisticated diploma.
• The most age restrict is 40 years on the time of application.
• Applicants should submit a supervisor’s endorsement letter confirming assist and releasing the guy for the in-particular person section (see the pattern letter on this web page).
• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. Fluency in both language is required for the fellowship, and dealing data of the opposite is a bonus.

Application

Submit your application, consisting of the next paperwork by way of the application kind:

•  A one-web page resume (curriculum vitae)
• The signed supervisor’s endorsement letter
• Your accomplished undertaking proposal

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For extra info, go to United Nations African Policy Innovation Fellowship.