WomenLift Health 2027 Southern Africa Signature Leadership Journey for emerging women leaders. (Fully Funded) – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline:  September 18, 2026 11:59 pm

Applications at the moment are open for the 2027 WomenLift Health Southern Africa Signature Leadership Journey. The totally funded, 12-month WomenLift Health Southern AfricaLeadership Journey is designed to offer proficient women leaders in well being with the protected house to discover their genuine management via vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and numerous community which fosters a powerful sense of belonging, instruments and methods for enhancing their voice, presence, and affect – all of the whereas being supported by a robust group of friends, mentors, and coaches. The program imparts contextualized instruments and frameworks to handle the person, institutional, well being sector challenges that women leaders in world well being face as we speak.

Participants have interaction in two in-person experiential studying residencies (Immersion and Lift-Off), along with digital studying touchpoints, digital group mentoring, digital one-on-one teaching periods, and importantly, a self-directed Health Leadership Project – all of the whereas being supported by their Leadership Journey group and consultants within the well being sector.

Global Fellows, those that efficiently full the Leadership Journey, will probably be part of a lifelong community of allies at native, regional, and world ranges who proceed to help one another and new cohort members and advocate for women’s management.

The 2027 WomenLift Health Southern Africa Leadership Journey will embody 35 women leaders in well being++ working in Southern Africa Health++ acknowledges that sustainable enhancements in well being require coordinated motion throughout interconnected fields that form and allow well being reminiscent of local weather change, meals techniques, agriculture, water and sanitation, training, financial coverage, gender fairness, and expertise.

Program Dates

•  The in-person residences involving journey embody the three-day Immersion (13-16 April 2027), together with journey days on 12 April and 17 April and the two-day Lift-Off (14-15 March 2028) , together with journey days on 13 March and 16 March). The location of the in-person residencies will probably be communicated to the cohort members nearer to the occasion dates however will probably be in Southern Africa.

Eligibility Criteria

• You are eligible for consideration should you meet all the next standards:
  • Identify as a girl
  • Demonstrate fluency and confidence in each written and verbal English communication. This contains the flexibility to articulate feelings, take part in reflective dialogue, have interaction in advanced interpersonal conversations, and combine management improvement ideas all through the Journey.
  • Are a citizen who resides and works inside the following nation/international locations: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, eSwatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
  • Live in CAT (+/-1 hour) time zones for at the very least 75% of this system as we imagine time zone compatibility is important to your potential to take part on the touchpoints and to have interaction along with your friends inside and out of doors of the periods.
  • Are a mid-career chief with 10–25 years of labor expertise in well being++. WomenLift Health defines Health++ as the popularity that sustainable enhancements in well being require coordinated motion throughout interconnected fields that form and allow well being reminiscent of local weather change, meals techniques, agriculture, water and sanitation, training, financial coverage, gender fairness, and expertise.

• WomenLift Health is dedicated to choosing numerous cohort members, representing completely different sectors (public, personal, academia, NGO, philanthropy), disciplines, and cultural backgrounds, and so on.
• Should you could have any questions associated to the above, and extra particularly whether or not you meet the standards or not, please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected] and we’ll reply for any clarification.

Benefits

• Cost: Free (all program prices, together with journey and lodging, are lined.)

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the WomenLift Health Southern Africa Signature Leadership Journey