World Bank GFDRR Risk Data Fellows Program 2025-2026 – YOA

Deadline: September 26, 2025

Applications are open for the World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) Risk Data Fellows Program 2025-2026. The Risk Data Fellows program is a 6-month work placement place for local weather and catastrophe danger professionals (knowledge scientists, geospatial analysts, and related) from chosen local weather-weak nations, providing the OPPORTUNITY to work instantly with World Bank Operations to entry, create, and talk local weather danger information to their communities.

The Fellowship program goals to bridge the information hole on catastrophe and local weather danger by empowering weak nations with the mandatory instruments, methodologies, and assist to generate and talk their catastrophe and local weather danger knowledge. Following the success of the primary cohort, the Digital Earth Team, in partnership with the Disaster-FCV Nexus, is launching the recruitment of the second cohort of Risk Data Fellows, this time specializing in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations (FCV) nations.

The fellowship program will provide an preliminary 6-month (75-day) placement for early profession professionals to work on the nexus of knowledge science and catastrophe danger administration on chosen World Bank tasks in local weather-weak nations. The Project Task Team to which the Fellow is assigned could fund a second six-month contract, based mostly on the Fellow’s efficiency.

Benefits

• They will obtain coaching and palms-on assist all through the mission to study World Bank actions and progressive applied sciences of their area and contribute to bettering local weather danger evaluation.

Eligibility

• For this second cohort, fellows can be chosen from the next FCV nations (nationals or residents): Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Kosovo, Lebanon, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, São Tomé and Príncipe, Republic of Zimbabwe.
• Risk Data Fellows can be chosen based mostly on their knowledge abilities, local weather and catastrophe danger abilities, and willingness to assist their communities.

Application

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For extra info, go to World Bank GFDRR Risk Data Fellows Program.