Mindanao Young Leaders Programme (MinYLP) 2026 – YOA

Deadline: January 25, 2026

Applications are open for the Mindanao Young Leaders Programme (MinYLP) 2026. The Mindanao Young Leaders Programme (MinYLP) is a capability sharing programme for rising younger neighborhood leaders from Civil Society Organisations. Each yr, ten individuals are chosen to additional develop their data, abilities and confidence as leaders, enabling them to actively contribute to the sustainable and peaceable growth of their communities and, extra broadly, of Mindanao.

MinYLP provides Young Leaders the OPPORTUNITY to discover new concepts and approaches to sustainable growth each in Mindanao and Aotearoa New Zealand, inspiring them to suppose creatively in regards to the challenges in their very own communities. Participants comply with a gaggle programme and work collectively on an inclusive, cross-ethnic and cross-non secular foundation. Each Young Leader will discover a particular growth problem affecting their neighborhood, undertake primary analysis on this subject, and put together a proposal for a participatory Action Project to handle this problem.

Eligibility

• Be aged 23-30 years;
• Be dwelling and dealing in Mindanao;
• Be working for a neighborhood primarily based organisation or NGO reminiscent of a ladies’s or Indigenous organisation, labour union or environmental group;
• Intend to proceed working for his or her organisation for at least one yr after finishing the programme;
• Have English language proficiency, with ≥5.5 IELTS (or TOEFL 46-59). Note: you aren’t required to take a seat an IELTS check, however an English language check might be administered on the interview stage;
• Be accessible to take part in a full time residential of two weeks;
• Have assist to take part within the programme from the organisation they symbolize or work for, together with flexibility to attend on-line study periods throughout workplace hours and to take go away from work for 12 weeks to take part within the programme in Aotearoa New Zealand;
• Not be enrolled in another full-time programs of study or an analogous scholarship/ fellowship through the Sustainable Development Course (SDC);
• Talk to UnionAID earlier than enrolling in another part-time programs through the SDC; 
• Hold, or be capable of receive, a passport issued by the Government of the Philippines legitimate for six months past the return departure date from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Selection Criteria

In making the choice, candidates might be assessed utilizing the next standards:

•  demonstrated management and future management potential;
•  a dedication to growth and neighborhood work;
•  a dedication to working with different ethnic and spiritual teams;
•  open-mindedness and maturity;
• assist from their using organisation together with a mutual dedication to proceed the employment for one-yr publish-programme;
• identification of a transparent and related growth problem or space of curiosity that you just want to discover by way of the programme that may present the inspiration of an Action Project; and
• that the group displays an ethnic, non secular and gender combine the place potential, and that immigration necessities for a scholar visa may be met.

Application

Apply by filling out the application type earlier than Sunday 25 January 2025 at 11:59 pm Philippine Time.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to MinYLP.