Rockefeller Foundation Big Bets Fellowship: Africa 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: December 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Big Bets Fellowship: Africa 2026. As part of Rockefeller Foundation’s lengthy-standing dedication to creating OPPORTUNITY common, the Big Bets Fellowship equips visionary leaders with the mindset, abilities, and networks wanted to comprehend their ambitions and drive change of their communities at scale.

Each 12 months, the Foundation selects a various and interdisciplinary cohort of changemakers who’re driving daring, systemic options to the world’s most pressing challenges – bettering lives and increasing alternative for these traditionally underserved. In 2026 the Big Bets Fellowship will have interaction leaders from throughout the African continent who’re creating the programs, insurance policies, and improvements that may energy a affluent and sustainable future for all.

Funding

• Travel bills for participation within the in-particular person convening shall be coated by The Rockefeller Foundation. Fellows shall be accountable for securing the mandatory visa(s) for any journey through the course of this system.

Eligibility

Applicants should:

• Be 18 years of age or older;
• At least 5 and not more than 15 years of related work expertise within the undertaking space;
• Conversant in English. Specifically, candidates should perceive the details of clear normal enter on acquainted issues recurrently encountered in work, college, leisure, and so forth.; take care of most conditions prone to come up whereas touring; produce easy linked textual content on matters that are acquainted or of private curiosity; and describe experiences and occasions, desires, hopes, and ambitions and briefly give causes and explanations for opinions and plans;
• Confirm that they will take part totally within the Fellowship underneath the legal guidelines of the jurisdiction(s) through which they reside. Any entry obtained from an Applicant residing in a rustic the place the Fellowship will not be authorized in all regards shall be ineligible to enter the Fellowship; and
• Own or in any other case have and preserve all needed rights, licenses, authorizations, and consents with respect to any and all mental property and different proprietary rights (together with the rights of publicity and privateness) in reference to their respective tasks.

Application

See the application dates:

• Deadline to finish the Eligibility and Pre-Application Forms: December 1st, 2025
• Finalists invited to submit Full Application and schedule interviews: Early January 2026
• Deadline to finish Full Application: Late January 2026
• Interviews carried out: January 2026
• Fellows introduced: Late February 2026

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Big Bets Fellowship: Africa.