WomenLift Health x WILAN Nigeria Leadership Journey 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: December 31, 2025

Applications are open for the GirlsLift Health x WILAN Nigeria Leadership Journey 2026. In this totally-funded, 12-month Leadership Journey, they supply mid-profession girls the protected area to discover their genuine management by way of vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and numerous community which fosters a robust sense of belonging, instruments and techniques for enhancing their voice, presence, and affect – all of the whereas being supported by a strong group of friends, mentors, and coaches.

The Leadership Journey is a transformational studying and improvement expertise that brings collectively mid to senior profession girls working throughout a number of disciplines, fields, and sectors in well being. This Journey is aimed toward creating the mindset shift wanted to unravel complicated challenges that we face in world public well being right this moment. The program imparts contextualized instruments and frameworks to handle the person, organizational, and societal challenges that ladies leaders in public and world well being face right this moment.

Participants interact in two in-individual experiential studying residencies (Immersion and Lift-Off), along with digital studying touchpoints, digital group mentoring, digital one-on-one teaching periods, and importantly, a self-directed well being management challenge. Upon completion of the Leadership Journey, individuals will grow to be “Global Fellows”, who can be part of a lifelong community of allies at native, regional, and world ranges who proceed to assist one another and new cohorts with their time, expertise, and treasure, and to advocate for ladies’s management.

Cost

• The program is free (all program prices, together with journey and lodging, are lined).

Eligibility

• Identify as a girl
• Work in a job that focuses on public well being coverage, follow, and/or analysis (your work and partnerships serve populations on the nationwide stage in Nigeria and will embrace practising public well being in hospitals and well being facilities, producing analysis and innovation, creating or implementing coverage, and managing groups/departments or tasks/grants.)
• Mid-Career Leader: Possess enough years (10 – 20 years) of expertise in public well being
• Reside and work inside Nigeria
• Must be a nationwide of Nigeria
• Participants should possess robust written and verbal English expertise that transcend fundamental or technical communication. This consists of the flexibility to articulate feelings, take part in reflective dialogue, interact in complicated interpersonal conversations, and combine management improvement ideas all through the Journey.
• They require individuals to be dwelling within the West Africa Standard Time for a minimum of 75% of this system as they imagine time zone compatibility is important to your means to take part on the touchpoints and to have interaction together with your friends inside and outdoors of the periods. GirlsLift Health is dedicated to choosing numerous cohort members, representing totally different sectors (public, personal, academia, NGO, philanthropy, Research and improvement), disciplines, and cultural backgrounds.

Application

The 2026 Nigeria Leadership Journey will happen from May 2026- April 2027. Before making use of, check the dates and timing of the periods to make sure that you’d be capable to attend all touchpoints. All touchpoints are necessary to attend whereas the JourneyPLUS occasions are non-compulsory. The in-individual residences involving journey embrace the three-day Immersion (20-22 July, 2026) and the two-day Lift-Off (20-21 April, 2027).

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For extra info, go to Nigeria Leadership Journey.