ICLD Women’s Political Leadership Programme 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 4, 2025

Applications are open for the ICLD Women’s Political Leadership Programme 2025. The 12-months coaching focuses on creating political management abilities and is open solely to girls leaders who maintain an elected or appointed seat in a neighborhood or regional authorities in any of the OECD-DAC listed ODA-nations.

All components of the coaching are based mostly on fairness, participation, transparency and accountability, and the objective is to strengthen democracy within the organizations taking part within the coaching, primarily by strengthening the politician herself, in addition to capacitating girls politicians basically to be good function fashions and to get a better involvement of underrepresented teams in choice making our bodies. 

The coaching is carried out in cooperation with the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR). 

Costs

• All coaching prices pertaining to lectures, literature, documentation, study excursions and sure social actions in addition to lodging and meals can even be coated by the organiser. All worldwide journey prices associated to the programme shall be coated by the programme organiser. Costs for private bills aren’t included and are the duty of the participant or her organisation.
• Participants are accountable for acquiring all related visas throughout all scheduled components of the programme. The prices for acquiring visas are to be borne by the participant. The visa needs to be legitimate for the entire interval of the workshop and the visa should cowl all stops on the itinerary and the vacation spot. It is your private duty to have the required visas and transit visas for the complete journey.
• All contributors are coated beneath a gaggle insurance coverage whereas on scheduled components of the programme. Medical and dental checkups aren’t included.

Eligibility

• All nations on the OECD-DAC listed ODA-eligible nations, are eligible for the programme, but when a neighborhood election is held throughout the yr when the coaching takes place, the nation is quickly taken off the checklist. This can be relevant if the nation is having an election between August and December the present yr.
• Only elected girls politicians (at the moment in workplace) in a neighborhood/regional authorities shall be thought of. For the upcoming cohorts, eligibility is proscribed to girls at the moment serving as Mayors, Deputy Mayors, or Governors and Deputy Governors. At ICLD, they intention to create a gaggle that features each majority and opposition politicians, in addition to a variety of ages and expertise. Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) trainings are open to all which can be eligible, regardless of bodily means.
• Candidates who’ve beforehand participated in an ICLD coaching programme financed by Sida can’t apply for this programme.
• The coaching programme shall be organised and carried out in English. Proficiency in English shall be indicated within the Application kind.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Women’s Political Leadership.