Acumen West Africa Fellows Programme
(Fully Funded Leadership Programme for Emerging Leaders) 2023
Acumen West Africa Fellow Programme 2023 is a one-year initiative improvement program intended to construct the up-and-coming age of social pioneers with the daringness to change society and make a superior, more comprehensive world.
Application Deadline: 12th July 2022
Qualified Countries: Countries in West Africa
To be taken at (country): Fellow’s Home country
About the Acumen West Africa Fellows Program: The program prepares exceptional people from across East and West Africa with the information, emotionally supportive network and reasonable insight to open their maximum capacity and drive positive change in the public eye. Colleagues are splendid personalities and large scholars who challenge to make the right decision, not what’s simple, to make positive change in their country. Colleagues can emerge out of different social, geographic and financial foundations and work in any area, and they should be focused on finishing destitution locally through their work.
Type: Fellowship
Qualification for Acumen West Africa Fellows Program:
- Pioneers who either began an association or endeavor or are driving change inside a current association or organization.
- People of any age and training level can partake in a program directed in English.
- East Africans exhibit responsibility and substantial association with the locale.
- Pioneer’s areas of strength for honesty, persistent steadiness, and a moral creative mind.
- Serious people prepared to go through an escalated yearlong individual change and administration venture.
Number of Awardees: Not determined
Worth of Acumen West Africa Fellows Program: Over the course of a year, Fellows stay in their positions while participating in five drawn out classes, where they get the devices, preparing and space to enhance groundbreaking thoughts, speed up their effect, fabricate areas of strength for an of social pioneers from across their district and all over the planet.
Year 1
- Join a diverse cohort of social change leaders in a rigorous year-long experience
- Improve your capacity to innovate and drive change with a mix of in-person and online seminars
- Part-time — you stay in your job while participating in four 5-day seminar in various locations across West Africa
Beyond Year 1
- Be a part of a lifelong fellowship that extends beyond your first year
- Join a larger local and global community committed to a world beyond poverty and injustice
West Africa is home to a portion of the world’s quickest developing economies – yet it will require an alternate kind of initiative to guarantee that the products of this development are felt by all. It will require pioneers grounded in honesty, and tireless in their quest for value and equity. The West Africa Fellowship will unite business people, ambitious innovators and association developers from both the general population and confidential areas who are displaying this authority, and who are eager to accomplish more.
Duration of Fellowship:Â 1Â year
How to Apply:Â Our application process consists of these four steps.
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Step 1: Apply online — Applications open 1 June and close 12 July
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Step 2:Â Receive your online assignments in August
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Step 3:Â Attend the Selection Conference in November 11 & 12
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Step 4:Â Our Fellows are selected in December
When will you find out?
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Step 1:Â Our Fellows are selected in early December
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Step 2:Â Fellows are announced in January 2023
Visit Fellowship Webpage for details