Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) Fellowship 2025. The AFC Fellowship is each a management improvement programme and a spot for dialogue and change between leaders of the rising era throughout the worldwide South and North. The focus is our shared local weather problem and different key international points. It will strengthen the capability of a cohort of dynamic rising leaders who, as they progress of their careers, will construct bridges between the worldwide North and South and discover new methods to deal with the local weather disaster.

The AFC Fellowship is a collaboration between Common Purpose and Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). This is the third 12 months of the AFC fellowship and builds on the success of the earlier two years. To date over 90 Fellows from around the globe have taken part within the Fellowship.

Fellowship Details

To be a part of the AFC Fellowship, step one is to be accepted onto the Climate Challenge Leadership Programme. Successful candidates will be a part of a cohort of 40 folks from completely different backgrounds and sectors and from around the globe. The Climate Challenge Leadership Programme contains two key components:

• Leading Beyond Authority: You might be launched to the Common Purpose thought management of ‘Leading Beyond Authority’ – the flexibility to cross boundaries and ship outcomes outdoors of your direct circle of management. Essential to tackling any complicated problem.
• Climate Challenge: You will tackle the problem “How can the world reform carbon markets to incentivize the preservation and expansion of forests, grasslands, peatlands, and mangroves in Africa and across the global South in the interest of achieving global net zero.” Through the Common Purpose ‘Innoventure’ course of, primarily based on design considering ideas, you’ll discover the problem in a artistic and dynamic manner. The remaining stage of this course of might be a presentation by you, to a panel of senior leaders, in your concepts to satisfy the problem.
• The Fellows neighborhood: Once you will have efficiently accomplished the programme you’ll develop into a Fellow and may join and work with Fellows from your personal 12 months, and from earlier cohorts by means of Fellows gatherings.

Benefits

Participants will:

• Enhance their potential to Lead Beyond Authority equipping them to work throughout boundaries; a pre-requisite to fixing any complicated drawback
• Grow new networks by connecting with numerous members, contributors and audio system from the worldwide North and South who they’d in any other case by no means meet
• Stretch their analytical and artistic expertise by exposing them to a brand new method to innovation
• Develop their influencing expertise by placing them in entrance of senior choice-makers to current their findings
• Generate new concepts and approaches to satisfy this vastly vital problem

Eligibility

Successful candidates might be from completely different sectors, backgrounds, international locations, and communities throughout Africa, the broader international South, and the worldwide North.

They might be:

• Emerging leaders (usually with over 5 years skilled expertise)
• Highly motivated people who present dedication to bringing about optimistic change, and who can exhibit their management potentials and/or functionality
• Interested in local weather points and in addressing the imbalance between the worldwide North and South

Application

The deadline for candidates is midnight BST on Sunday, 21 September 2025

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For extra info, go to AFC Fellowship.