WISER Africa Co-production Fellowship 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 8, 2025

Are you an early profession researcher or skilled primarily based in East, West, or Southern Africa, with a powerful curiosity within the transdisciplinary co-manufacturing of climate and local weather companies? Apply now for the Weather and Climate Information Services (WISER) Africa Co-production Fellowship, funded by the UK authorities’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) by way of the Africa Regional Climate and Nature (ARCAN) programme.

Three fellowships are being provided by way of this name — one in every of the next areas: East, West, and Southern Africa. They are searching for proficient, early-profession professionals with experience or curiosity in co-manufacturing to function co-manufacturing champions.

Each fellow will collaborate with native and regional organisations to reinforce local weather companies and assist the WISER programme’s objectives. Fellows will bridge the hole between analysis and neighborhood-led outcomes and champion modern co-manufacturing practices to reinforce local weather resilience.

Fellowship Objectives

• Provide co-manufacturing experience of their area, supporting Regional Climate Centres and/or National Meteorological and Hydrological Services.
• Engage with stakeholders to co-design priorities that inform future local weather-centered improvement funding.
• Conduct analysis on co-manufacturing, stakeholder engagement, indigenous information, or communication methods.
• Contribute to WISER-wide studying on co-manufacturing practices.
• Fellows will obtain assist from regional and worldwide co-manufacturing consultants, together with coaching and peer studying classes throughout all three areas.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be nationals of a listed eligible African nation.
• Fellows could also be primarily based at their present educational establishment, supplied it’s in a WISER-supported nation and meets due diligence necessities.
• Those with no present affiliation should verify internet hosting preparations earlier than making use of. West Africa fellows might be primarily based at AGRHYMET in Niamey, Niger.

Eligible Countries

• East Africa
  • Eligible host nations: Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.
• Southern Africa
  • Eligible host nations: Angola, Botswana, the Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
• West Africa: The fellowship might be hosted on the Agriculture, Hydrology, Meteorology Regional Centre (AGRHYMET) in Niamey, Niger.
  • Eligible nationalities: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal.

Application

Once accomplished, electronic mail it to [email protected] together with the required paperwork listed on the finish of the shape.  

For extra info, go to WISER Africa Co-production Fellowship.