CivicHive Climate Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 9, 2026

Applications are open for the CivicHive Climate Fellowship 2026. The CivicHive Climate Fellowship is a 4-month intensive fellowship programme designed to construct the capability of early-stage civic tech innovators, leaders of fledgling organisations, and local weather advocates in Nigeria. The goal is to empower contributors with the information, instruments, and strategic capability required to drive campaigns for a simply vitality transition and local weather justice.

Africa is very weak to local weather crises, inflicting speedy financial and social disruption as a consequence of predominantly agricultural economies and restricted adaptation capability. Nigeria faces a dilemma: whereas oil offers main public funding, continued fossil gas dependence threatens lengthy-time period stability and has triggered unremediated environmental injury and livelihood disruption. 

Other urgent environmental points embrace widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss, air pollution from unregulated waste disposal, and desertification, additional exacerbating the challenges. The international vitality transition is definite, and petro-dependent economies like Nigeria should decide their path. To reply successfully, civil society actors, innovators, and group leaders want the correct information, expertise, and networks.

Benefits

The fellowship offers:

• Hands-on coaching and Expert mentorship
• Weekly assignments
• A capstone venture
• Seed funding help for promising options

Eligibility

Applicants to the CivicHive Climate Fellowship have to be:

• Preferably between no more than 35 years outdated;
• Has demonstrated monitor report in local weather change, vitality transition, local weather justice, environmental safety, or associated fields;
• Is dedicated to weekly participation and project completion;
• Is keen about strengthening local weather accountability, resilience, and justice  in Nigeria;

Application

Applications open on February 23, 2026 and shut on March 9, 2026. The CivicHive Climate Fellowship runs from March 17 to June 18, 2026, with structured lab classes persevering with into early July and culminating in a Demo Day on July 22, 2026.

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For extra data, go to CivicHive Climate Fellowship.