CivicHive Civic Tech Fellowship – West Africa 2026 (stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: February 11, 2026

Applications are open for the CivicHive Civic Tech Fellowship 2026. The CivicHive CivicTech Fellowship is a 20-week bootcamp designed for early-stage civic innovators with tech-enabled concepts that may truly resolve social issues in West Africa.

Nigeria is home to one of many world’s quickest-rising youth populations. In this context, civic know-how has emerged as a robust catalyst for social change, leveraging digital and non-digital instruments to bridge gaps between governments and residents, increase civic area, and strengthen democratic participation.

Civic tech improvements at the moment play a essential function in advancing public participation, transparency, accountability, local weather resilience, justice reforms, and environment friendly public service supply. The CivicHive Civic Tech Fellowship exists to establish, nurture, and help the subsequent technology of civic tech leaders responding to those challenges.

The fellowship is an incubation programme designed to help early-stage civic tech concepts and options. They welcome concepts at any stage and scale—from native and hyperlocal initiatives to regional platforms—and encourage various makes use of of know-how, together with radio, SMS, print, synthetic intelligence, and social media.

Thematic Areas

• Artificial Intelligence for Good: Civic tech options that use AI responsibly to deal with social challenges, strengthen accountability, mitigate bias and hurt, and contribute to clear, inclusive, and efficient governance of AI techniques.
• Low-Cost Climate Tech Solutions: Affordable, tech-pushed options addressing local weather adaptation, agriculture, environmental administration, meals safety, and group resilience, notably in native and useful resource-constrained contexts.
• Technology for Social Good (Health, Education, and Justice): Civic improvements that enhance entry to important public companies, defend rights, shut service supply gaps, and empower residents to demand accountability and equitable outcomes.
• Advocacy and Social Movements: Tools that strengthen advocacy, civic organising, collective motion, and citizen-led actions, particularly in shrinking civic areas and contexts going through repression or exclusion.

Benefits

The CivicHive Civic Tech Fellowship will incubate 15 civic tech options throughout West Africa. Selected fellows will obtain:

• Technical, product, and authorized help
• Mentorship from skilled civic tech leaders
• Access to a regional civic tech community
• A month-to-month stipend all through the fellowship
• Support to organize options for launch and early scaling
• Paid journey to attend the 2026 West Africa Civic Tech Conference

Eligibility

• Be residents or residents of any West African nation,
• Be people or groups engaged on a civic tech thought or answer,
• Must have examined the thought or been in operation for 1-3 years.
• The answer should align with a number of of the fellowship’s thematic areas.
• Demonstrate a transparent public-curiosity or social influence focus, notably in strengthening civic area, accountability, participation, or service supply,
• Be out there to completely take part within the fellowship actions all through the programme,
• Be open to mentorship, peer studying, iteration, and collaboration inside a regional civic tech ecosystem.

Application

The choice course of prioritises concepts with clear influence on folks and civic areas, sturdy potential for sustainability and lengthy-time period public worth, and contributors who reveal dedication, resilience, and a compelling imaginative and prescient for change.

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For extra info, go to CivicHive Civic Tech Fellowship.