UN ESCWA Fellowship Programme for Young Arab Professionals 2026 – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2026

Applications are open for the UN ESCWA Fellowship Programme for Young Arab Professionals 2026. As a regional information establishment, ESCWA seeks to interact gifted younger professionals from the Arab area by means of a fellowship programme aimed toward strengthening coverage evaluation, analysis capability and information trade. The fellowship programme goals to develop a brand new era of execs with sturdy analytical and policymaking expertise to assist the financial and social transformation of ESCWA member States.

Thematic Areas

ESCWA invites purposes from certified younger Arab professionals in areas related to its programme of labor, together with:

• Macroeconomic coverage;
• Trade coverage and regional financial integration;
• Transport economics and infrastructure growth;
• Economic Modeling;
• Economic and environmental statistics;
• Social coverage and inclusive growth;
• Public administration and governance;
• Natural assets administration and local weather coverage;
• Data evaluation;
• Other areas associated to ESCWA’s strategic priorities.

The fellowship gives sensible on-the-job expertise to younger professionals in early or mid-profession levels in academia, the general public sector, or worldwide growth. Fellows will achieve publicity to the multicultural surroundings of the United Nations and contribute to the work programme of ESCWA.

Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, Fellows will likely be accountable for the next duties:

• Fellows will agree on a piece programme with the receiving ESCWA division/workplace. The work programme will likely be outlined collectively with the assigned supervisor and aligned with ESCWA programme priorities.
• Assignments could embrace, however will not be restricted to:
  • Collecting, evaluating and analyzing financial and social growth knowledge
  • Supporting analysis and analytical research
  • Contributing to technical reviews, coverage briefs and briefing notes
  • Assisting within the preparation of and participation in skilled group conferences, workshops and seminars
  • Supporting different ESCWA programme actions and information merchandise
• Fellows will even be anticipated to provide a substantive analytical output in the course of the fellowship interval.

Benefits

• Selected Fellows should be obtainable to journey to the assigned responsibility station at ESCWA Headquarters in Beirut, upon safety clearance. An on-line modality is possible underneath distinctive circumstances.
• Fellows will obtain a spherical-journey economic system class air ticket from the capital of their home nation to the responsibility station.
• Fellows will obtain a month-to-month stipend of USD $4,000 to cowl residing bills for a single particular person.
• ESCWA will assist fellows in acquiring residence playing cards in Lebanon when the project period is six months or longer.
• ESCWA doesn’t present medical insurance coverage protection for fellows. Therefore, fellows will likely be required to supply proof of medical insurance coverage protection in the course of the fellowship interval.
• The fellowship programme is for seven months initially, beginning on 1 June 2026, and could also be prolonged, topic to programme wants and availability of funding.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be 35 years of age or youthful on the time of application.
• Be a nationwide of ESCWA member States; choice is given to candidates from least developed nations within the area (Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia, the Sudan, and Yemen).
• Applicants should maintain a complicated college diploma (Master’s or PhD). The fellowship just isn’t supposed for the pursuit of educational levels, however utilized analysis related to growth challenges is inspired.
• Fellows should reveal curiosity or work/analysis expertise within the above-talked about fields or associated ESCWA priorities.
• Fellows will work on a predefined venture contributing to the work programme of the internet hosting ESCWA division.
• Fellows could take part in nationwide, regional or worldwide conferences as part of their studying expertise.
• Fellows will put together a substantive analytical output equivalent to a analysis paper, coverage transient or analytical report in the course of the fellowship.

Application

Applicants should submit the next paperwork as PDF attachments:

• UN Administrative Profile (AP)* in PDF format, together with a motivation assertion (cowl letter) inside the AP (to be submitted as an attachment to electronic mail submission). *The UN AP (Administrative Profile) will be created by signing up for an account at:
  • Applicants ought to confer with the Annex of this doc on How to Create an Administrative Profile_English_ESCWA.pdf which comprises detailed step- by-step directions about the way to create an AP inside the Inspira system and generate a PDF of the doc which should be hooked up to your electronic mail submission;
  • There is not any Job Opening for this Fellowship inside the Inspira system. The directions referenced above element how candidates can create a draft AP (not tied to any revealed Job Opening) inside Inspira, and save the draft AP as a PDF for inclusion as an attachment to the applicant’s electronic mail submission;
  • The motivation assertion is created as part of the web AP creation course of in Inspira, and will likely be seen in direction of the top of the AP PDF underneath the heading “Motivation Statement for this Application”;
  • If after reviewing the data above, you might be nonetheless unable to generate the AP within the indicated PDF format, chances are you’ll electronic mail at [email protected] for technical assist. Please plan your time and try to create the draft AP effectively prematurely so that you’ve got ample time to hunt technical assist, if wanted.
• Research proposal (most 1,000 phrases) in a specific thematic space
• Copies of superior-stage educational levels (Master’s and/or PhD)
• Copy of applicant’s passport (data web page/s)
• Two letters of reference or suggestion

All submissions needs to be emailed to [email protected]. The topic line needs to be ESCWA Fellowship Programme for Young Arab Professionals, 2026 Cohort

For extra data, go to UN ESCWA Fellowship.