AWARD Women in Agriculture Leadership Program Fellowship 2026 [Cohort 2] – YOA

Deadline: November 6, 2026

Applications are open for the AWARD Women in Agriculture Leadership Program Fellowship 2026 [Cohort 2]. The two-yr non-residential Fellowship seeks to strengthen the potential, confidence, and affect of African ladies scientists to guide and contribute to local weather-responsive agricultural analysis and agrifood techniques.

The Fellowship targets mid-profession African ladies agricultural scientists working in nationwide agricultural analysis establishments, authorities ministries, universities, and worldwide analysis organizations in Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Senegal.

Benefits

• Selected Fellows will have interaction in a collection of actions, together with a mentoring program the place they are going to be matched with a mentor and a mentee, and a number of other coaching programs on management and negotiation expertise, gender integration in local weather adaptation, science communication, and analysis proposal writing.

Eligibility

Eligible candidates are African ladies agricultural scientists working in National Agricultural Research Institutions (NARIs), authorities businesses, academia, non-governmental organizations, or the non-public sector, and presently actively engaged in analysis, coverage, or follow related to local weather change and smallholder agriculture.

Eligible candidates should meet the next standards:

• Hold no less than a grasp’s diploma in a related self-discipline;
• Hold a minimal of seven years of expertise in agriculture, agrifood techniques, gender, and local weather-associated work;
• Be nationals of the goal nations: Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Senegal;
• Reside in Africa throughout your entire Fellowship interval;
• Proficiency in English or French.

Application

The application deadline is November 06, 2026, at 23:59 East Africa Time (GMT+3). Applications will NOT be accepted after this date.

Applications are strictly through the web portal and have to be submitted here for English-speaking candidates and here for French-speaking candidates.

For extra data, go to AWARD Women in Agriculture Leadership Program Fellowship.