AWARD Leadership Program for Emerging African Women in Agricultural Sciences 2026 – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2025

Applications are open for the AWARD Leadership Program for Emerging African Women in Agricultural Sciences 2026. The program funded by The Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) and applied by African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) seeks to construct a pool of succesful, assured, influential younger ladies scientists outfitted to excel in agricultural sciences, thrive in management roles, and champion gender integration in agriculture.

The competitively chosen profitable candidates will profit from a spread of alternatives to strengthen their management abilities; improve capacities to successfully talk their work to numerous audiences; and amplify their visibility and networking abilities. It is envisaged that this system will equip them to beat institutionalized boundaries to ladies’s profession development and encourage them to remain in agricultural science careers. It will enhance their consciousness of the significance of gender integration in agricultural sciences and the necessity to champion gender equality in agricultural professions.

Mentees will probably be drawn from numerous biophysical and social science agriculture disciplines and organizations, together with authorities businesses, non-governmental organizations, academia, analysis organizations, civil society, and the non-public sector, amongst others.

Benefits

• Participants will achieve management and mentoring coaching, entry to a community of execs, instruments for private branding, and alternatives to amplify their visibility by means of shows and media engagements.
• They will achieve abilities in gender-responsive agricultural analysis, enhancing their capability to win grants that promote gender equality.
• Overall, they may purchase abilities to speed up their profession development and have a extra satisfying and impactful profession in the male-dominated agriculture discipline.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this Fellowship, candidates should meet all of the eligibility standards outlined beneath:

• Young African ladies agricultural scientists below 35 years previous, who’re nationals of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia.
• Applicants should maintain at the very least a bachelor’s diploma in an agricultural-associated discipline.
• Reside in Africa and be at the moment actively engaged in agriculture-associated skilled work;
• Not a Fellow or Laureate of another Fellowships provided by AWARD.

Application

The name for purposes closes at midnight on October 15, 2025, East Africa Time (GMT+3). Applications will NOT be accepted after this date.

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