African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Women in Agriculture Leadership Program Fellowship 2026 for female agricultural researchers.

Application Deadline: April 26, 2026 (23:59 East Africa Time – GMT+3)

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 AWARD Women in Agriculture Leadership Program Fellowship. The Women in Agriculture Leadership Program Fellowship is an initiative led by African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) underneath Africa-Australia Partnership for Climate Responsive Agriculture. Inspired by the AWARD Fellowship mannequin, the profession growth fellowship seeks to strengthen the potential, confidence and affect of African ladies agricultural scientists to steer and take part in climate- resilient agricultural analysis. The Fellowship combines management growth, mentoring partnerships and technical excellence to reinforce the Fellows’ capabilities and place them as influential actors in agrifood methods.

Requirements

• The Fellowship targets ladies researchers from six African international locations together with Egypt,
  Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Senegal.
• Two Cohorts, of fifty Fellows every, might be competitively chosen by way of a rigorous course of that may consider the tutorial {qualifications} of the candidates, their expertise in agrifood methods and local weather resilience, their management potential and profession aspirations.
• Potential Fellows will embody mid-career agricultural and local weather researchers from nationwide and worldwide agricultural analysis institutes, ministries of agriculture, tutorial establishments, amongst others, guaranteeing robust institutional illustration throughout the agrifood and local weather analysis panorama.

Application Requirements

All Applicants Must:

• Be female agricultural researchers from one of many goal international locations.
• Reside in Africa and be actively engaged in analysis, coverage or apply related to local weather change and Africa’s smallholder agriculture.
• Have attained a minimal schooling degree of a grasp’s diploma in agriculture and local weather change associated fields of any related self-discipline from a acknowledged college (agriculture, agricultural economics, agricultural extension, pure assets, meals science and diet, local weather science, and many others.)
• Have a minimum of seven years of labor expertise in agriculture, agrifood methods, gender, local weather, together with design or implementation at institutional, nationwide, or regional ranges.
• Applicants are required to reply to the open name for purposes for every Cohort as introduced on the AWARD web site for a specified interval.
• Applications are submitted by way of the web application portal on the AWARD web site in English or French

Benefits

Selected fellows will take part in a complete skilled growth program that features:

• Leadership and negotiation coaching
• Mentoring partnerships with each mentors and mentees
• Training on gender integration in local weather adaptation
• Science communication and publishing programs
• Networking with agricultural and local weather analysis specialists
• Collaboration with AWARD alumni and companion networks

The fellowship will interact as much as 300 beneficiaries, together with:

• 100 Fellows
• 100 Mentors
• 100 Mentees

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the AWARD Women in Agriculture Leadership Program Fellowship