UN OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship Program 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 15, 2025

Applications are open for the UN OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship Program 2026. The Indigenous Fellowship Programme was launched in 1997 by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) within the context of the primary International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People. The intention of the programme is to offer indigenous individuals the OPPORTUNITY to achieve information concerning the UN system and mechanisms coping with human rights points usually and indigenous points particularly.

Trained individuals are higher outfitted to help their organisations and communities in defending and selling their rights. This coaching programme is on the market in 4 languages: English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Fellows from all 4 language elements of the programme are skilled along with simultaneous interpretation over 4 weeks in Geneva. The date of the coaching programme normally coincides with the annual session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (June/July annually), permitting the fellows to take part extra actively in that Mechanism.

Costs

• The chosen candidates are entitled to a return flight ticket, dwelling bills and primary medical health insurance in the course of the coaching.

Eligibility

• The candidate should be indigenous (non-indigenous individuals is not going to be considered, even when they’ve shut hyperlinks with indigenous communities and/or organizations).
• Indigenous candidates, together with girls, LGBTQI+ people, and individuals with disabilities, are strongly inspired to apply.
• Age shouldn’t be a limitation to participation within the programme.
• Formal training shouldn’t be a limitation to participation within the IFP given the socio-financial obstacles confronted by many indigenous peoples that restrict entry to formal instructional establishments.
• Candidates ought to agree to coach different indigenous individuals after the return to their respective communities/organizations.
• The candidate ought to be proposed, and his/her candidacy supported by his/her indigenous group and/or neighborhood. It is fascinating that the sponsoring group has a agency constituency or membership and that it’s consultant.
• The candidate ought to have a superb working information of the language during which the programme is imparted.

Application

Fellowship purposes will solely be considered if they’re absolutely accomplished. Both components I and II of the application type should be accomplished.

Application varieties should embody an official suggestion letter from the nominating Indigenous group or neighborhood. Applicants ought to add their suggestion letters on to the net application type.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to UN OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship.