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

Deadline: January 31, 2026

Applications are open for the WomenLift Health x WILAN Midwifery Leadership Journey 2026. WomenLift Health, in partnership with the Women in Leadership Advancement Network (WILAN), is launching a 12-month Midwifery Leadership Journey to strengthen the management capability and networks of mid- to senior-profession girls advancing midwifery and maternal and new child well being (MNH) throughout Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Burkina Faso.

The Journey will convene leaders from scientific care, schooling, regulation, coverage, analysis, and innovation to attach, lead, and drive change for respectful, excessive-high quality look after moms and newborns. Midwifery girls leaders will improve management competencies, achieve from teaching, peer studying, and alternatives to champion excessive-affect MNH improvements and develop into change brokers for higher well being look after moms and newborns.

In this absolutely funded, 12-month Midwifery Leadership Journey, they supply mid- to senior-profession girls advancing midwifery and maternal and new child well being with a protected house to discover their genuine management by way of vulnerability and reflection; an inclusive, cross-nation community that fosters a powerful sense of belonging; and instruments and methods to strengthen their voice, presence, and affect—all whereas being supported by a robust group of friends, advisors, and coaches.

Program Details

The Midwifery Journey will probably be a transformational studying and growth expertise that brings collectively girls leaders from scientific care, schooling, regulation, coverage, analysis, and innovation who’re working to enhance respectful, excessive-high quality look after moms and newborns. It is geared toward creating the mindset shift wanted to handle the complicated, interlinked challenges dealing with midwifery and MNH methods at the moment. This Journey is geared toward creating the mindset shift wanted to resolve complicated challenges that we face in midwifery and maternal and new child well being at the moment.

This Journey will impart contextualized instruments and frameworks to handle the person, organizational, and societal obstacles that midwifery leaders face—from gaining affect in determination-making areas to driving change inside establishments, and well being methods. 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 classes, and importantly, a self-directed Midwifery management undertaking.

Upon completion of the Leadership Journey, contributors will develop into “Global Fellows”, who will probably 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 girls’s management.

Cost

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

Eligibility

• Identify as a girl
• Are Mid to Senior Career Leader: has 10-25 years of labor expertise
• Are a citizen who resides and works inside the following 4 nations: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Senegal, 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 growth ideas all through the Journey.
• Notes / guardrails:
  • This is a management program (not scientific expertise coaching).
  • They purpose for disciplinary and geographic variety throughout the cohort; inclusion of midwifery allies is to advance analysis and observe.
  • Non-midwife candidates are welcome if their position materially elevates midwifery observe
• Primary portfolio advances midwifery and MNH, demonstrated by way of a number of roles beneath (public, non-public, academia, philanthropy, NGO/nonprofit, or multilateral):
  • Clinical & service supply: Registered midwives (energetic license), nurse-midwives, ob-gyns, pediatricians/neonatologists, senior nursing leaders; service line, hospital, or community managers (public or non-public).
  • Education & workforce: Deans/college of midwifery/nursing faculties; pre-/in-service coaching administrators; CPD/curriculum leads; simulation/expertise-lab leaders.
  • Regulation & skilled our bodies: Midwifery/nursing councils, accreditation/requirements companies, skilled associations.
  • Policy, packages & methods: Government MNH leads; NGO/INGO program administrators; high quality-of-care & respectful maternity care leads; information/monitoring & analysis heads.
  • Financing & payers: Health insurers/HMOs, purchasers, reimbursement/advantages design leads; fee reform or worth-based mostly look after maternity/new child providers.
  • Private sector & supply networks: Private hospital teams, clinic chains, and supplier networks managing maternity/new child providers at scale.
  • Innovation, merchandise & provide: Med-tech, diagnostics, prescription drugs, oxygen/provides, and final-mile logistics leaders bringing MNH instruments to observe.
  • Digital well being & social enterprise: Telehealth, determination-assist, workforce platforms, registries—product or implementation leaders centered on MNH.
  • Philanthropy, CSR & funding: Program officers, portfolio leads, CSR heads, and affect buyers allocating capital to midwifery/MNH outcomes.
  • Research & proof translation: Investigators and implementation scientists transferring proof into coverage/observe.

Application

The 2026 Midwifery Journey will happen from May 2026- April 2027. Before making use of, check the dates and timing of the classes to make sure that you’ll be capable of attend all touchpoints. All touchpoints are obligatory to attend whereas the JourneyPLUS occasions are non-compulsory. The in-individual residences involving journey embody the 4-day Immersion (27-30 July, 2026) and the two-day Lift-Off (4-5 May, 2027).

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For extra data, go to Midwifery Leadership Journey.