WomenLift Health Eastern Africa Leadership Journey 2027 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 17, 2026

Applications are open for the GirlsLift Health Eastern Africa Leadership Journey 2027. The totally funded, 12-month GirlsLift Health Eastern Africa Leadership Journey is designed to offer gifted girls leaders in well being with the secure house to discover their genuine management via vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and various 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 strong group of friends, mentors, and coaches.

The program imparts contextualized instruments and frameworks to deal with the person, institutional, well being sector challenges that girls leaders in international well being face at present. Participants have interaction in two in-individual experiential studying residencies (Immersion and Lift-Off), along with digital studying touchpoints, digital group mentoring, digital one-on-one teaching classes, and importantly, a self-directed Health Leadership Project– all of the whereas being supported by their Leadership Journey neighborhood and specialists within the well being sector.

Costs

• The program is totally free (all program prices, together with journey and lodging, are coated.)

Eligibility

• You are eligible for consideration if you happen to meet all the next standards:
  • Identify as a girl
  • Demonstrate fluency and confidence in each written and verbal English communication. This consists of 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 nations; Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Sudan or Burundi
  • Live in EAT (+/-1 hour) time zones for at the very least 75% of this system as they consider time zone compatibility is important to your capability to take part on the touchpoints and to have interaction along with your friends inside and outdoors of the classes.
  • Are a mid-profession chief with 10–25 years of labor expertise in well being++. GirlsLift Health defines Health++ as the popularity that sustainable enhancements in well being require coordinated motion throughout interconnected fields that form and allow well being resembling local weather change, meals methods, agriculture, water and sanitation, training, financial coverage, gender fairness, and expertise.
• GirlsLift Health is dedicated to choosing various cohort members, representing totally different sectors (public, personal, academia, NGO, philanthropy), disciplines, and cultural backgrounds, and many others.

Application

• The 2027 Eastern Africa Leadership Journeys will happen from March 16, 2027 – February 10, 2028. Before making use of, check the dates and timing of the classes to be sure to can attend all touchpoints and in-individual residencies, as all classes are obligatory.
• The in-individual residences involving journey embody the three-day Immersion (May 25-27, 2027, together with journey days on May 24 and May 28) and the three-day Lift-Off (February 8-10, 2028, together with journey days on February 7 and February 11, 2028). The location of the in-individual residencies might be communicated to the cohort members nearer to the occasion dates.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to WomenLift Health Eastern Africa Leadership Journey.