AWLN 8th Intergenerational Retreat 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 3, 2026

Applications are open for the AWLN 8th Intergenerational Retreat 2026. The 8th Intergenerational Retreat (IGR 8) is a flagship gathering that brings collectively generations of African girls leaders to construct expertise, forge networks, and drive collective motion for the continent’s transformation. 40 younger girls leaders will probably be chosen for a completely sponsored retreat in Libreville, Gabon this December, bringing collectively rising and established leaders from throughout the continent and the Diaspora.

The Intergenerational Retreat is African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) signature platform for connecting younger girls leaders with the seasoned voices shaping Africa’s future. It exists to strengthen girls’s management in reworking the continent, in step with the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.

More than a convening, IGR is designed as a launchpad: an area the place mentorship, dialogue, and cross-generational change translate into actual management capability and lasting networks throughout international locations, sectors, and generations.

Benefits

Selected candidates will probably be absolutely sponsored, with registration, journey, and lodging lined. Beyond logistics, the Retreat presents:

• Mentorship from excessive-stage girls leaders, together with Heads of State, Vice-Presidents, and CEOs
• Access to a community of extremely achieved girls leaders throughout Africa and the Diaspora
• Strengthened management expertise and private growth
• The AWLN Leadership Award
• Strategic assist from AWLN’s extensive community of companions

Eligibility

AWLN is asking for purposes from younger African girls leaders, from the continent or the Diaspora, who’ve demonstrated influence of their communities.

Eligible candidates are:

• Aged 18 to 45 years
• Able to indicate measurable or acknowledged influence inside their group
• Innovators or lively contributors inside one in all AWLN’s six pillars:
  • Peace and Security
  • Governance and Political Participation (GPP)
  • Financial Inclusion, Economic Development, Natural Resources and Mining
  • Agriculture, Rural Economy and Land
  • Social Mobilisation
  • Youth and Emerging Leaders

Expectations

The AWLN Intergenerational Retreat is greater than an occasion, it’s a platform for management, collaboration, and collective motion. Participants are anticipated to actively contribute to the success and lengthy-time period influence of the Retreat by:

• Actively participating in all periods, discussions, and collaborative actions
• Sharing their information, experiences, and views to complement intergenerational dialogue
• Building significant connections and fostering collaboration throughout international locations, sectors, and generations
• Acting as ambassadors of AWLN by selling its values, mission, and initiatives inside their communities {and professional} networks
• Translating studying into motion by implementing or strengthening initiatives that advance girls’s management and gender equality after the Retreat
• Contributing to the AWLN community past the occasion via continued engagement, mentorship, information sharing, and collaboration 

Participants are chosen not just for what they’ve achieved, but additionally for his or her willingness to contribute, encourage others, and strengthen the collective influence of the African Women Leaders Network even after the Retreat

Application

Applications have to be submitted by 03 August 2026; solely full purposes will probably be reviewed.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to AWLN 8th Intergenerational Retreat.