The Coady Institute 2027 Katherine Fleming Women’s Leadership Course for African Women Leaders (Bursary Available, Abuja, Nigeria)

Application Deadline: 15 January 2027

Applications are actually open for the 2027 Katherine Fleming Women’s Leadership Course for African Women Leaders. The Katherine Fleming Women’s Leadership Course is designed as a collaborative house for African girls leaders, each skilled and rising, to attach, study, and develop. Over six days, contributors will discover and apply sensible instruments and frameworks that strengthen management abilities and drive motion for financial company, justice, and inclusion.

This immersive studying expertise invites you to acknowledge and construct upon your distinctive property and presents as a neighborhood chief whereas fostering a supportive community of friends. Together, we are going to deal with community-led, community-driven approaches to social change, enabling you to steer with confidence and create significant impression.

The course is a co-learning house, the place girls leaders from throughout Africa can study and share instruments and ideas to develop each their particular person and neighborhood management. To guarantee a broad vary of views, the course will likely be co-facilitated by a workforce of facilitators who convey a broad vary of approaches in girls’s management associated to motion constructing.

FACILITATORS:
Saliwe Mutetwa-Zakariya
Kate Ibeanusi

CO-HOSTS:
Dr. Sharon Adetutu Omotosa, Director, International Media and Information Literacy Institute
Dr. Martha Fanjoy, Director of Programs, Coady Institute

DURATION:
6 days

COURSE TYPE
In-Person

COURSE LOCATION:
Abuja, Nigeria

Requirements

The course is for African girls leaders who’re:

• rising leaders from mid-level civil society organizations that align with co-operative motion, financial empowerment, defending kids, training, creating property, well being, and/or gender equality; and
• searching for to enhance abilities and capabilities required to enact financial company so that ladies can construct towards sustainable livelihoods.

Benefits

By the top of this course, contributors will have the ability to:

• Apply Leadership Frameworks and Tools: Analyze and apply numerous management frameworks and related instruments to deal with challenges confronted by girls leaders.
• Identify Community-Based Practices for Change: Evaluate and suggest neighborhood practices, values, and actions that assist girls’s management and contribute to socio-economic improvement.
• Reflect on Lived Experiences for Growth: Critically replicate on private management experiences to establish at the least three strengths and motivations that inform future observe.
• Create a Leadership Action Plan: Design and current an in depth motion plan outlining steps to implement management initiatives inside their context.

Time Requirements

• This is a 6-day in-person course positioned in Abuja, Nigeria. Participants are required to reach on May 16 and depart on May 23, 2027.
• The course will likely be delivered from May 17 – May 22, 2027.

Bursary

• Coady Institute is dedicated to making sure that contributors working with marginalized communities all over the world have entry to its programs. This dedication is supported by way of bursaries made attainable by the beneficiant contributions of particular person and institutional donors.
• Accepted contributors will obtain a full bursary protecting course tuition, lodging, breakfast and lunch, and the commencement celebration supper throughout their participation within the course in Abuja, Nigeria. The bursary will likely be utilized immediately to every participant’s account.
• Participants are accountable for protecting all different bills, together with night meals, journey to and from Abuja, visa charges, cancellation insurance coverage, and incidental prices. Emergency medical insurance coverage can be strongly really helpful. Please be aware that journey bursaries usually are not out there for this course.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Katherine Fleming Women’s Leadership Course for African Women Leaders.