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DEVELOPING ENGINEERING LEADERS THROUGH HER (DELT-HER) INITIATIVE

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Application Deadline: 31 July, 2025

LOCATION: Nigeria

Developing Engineering Leaders Through Her (DELT-Her) is an initiative that seeks to create opportunities for women in engineering, by attracting and supporting innovative engineering ideas which would ultimately be mentored and developed into startup companies. 

ELIGIBILITY:

Lead applicants shall be female Nigerians who have attained a minimum of first degree, and have innovative engineering ideas. The initiative targets young females aged 23 to 45 years who have developed a proposal on innovative ideas in engineering and have set up a team for the implementation of the ideas. Each team shall however be constituted of at least 60% female participants, to qualify for funding under this initiative.

There is no application fee to apply to the program.

The application deadline is July 31, 2025. We highly recommend submitting your application well before the deadline to ensure it is received and reviewed on time.

BENEFIT:

Up to N20,000,000 grant is available

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SOUTH AFRICAN PROGRAM OF MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATIONAL GRANTS (MMEG) FOR AFRICAN WOMEN 2025

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Application Deadline: September 14, 2025 (11:59pm Eastern Standard Time)

LOCATION: South Africa

The mission of the MMEG grant is to assist women from developing countries who are pursuing their education with the aim of improving the lives of women and children in developing countries. MMEG is one of the few organizations that provides financial assistance to such women.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:

be a self-identifying woman, and at least 25 years old at time of application deadline;

be a national of a country listed on the MMEG country eligibility list (except for the Trinity Washington University Program);

be registered (not just accepted or enrolled) at an accredited in-person academic institution and program when submitting their application (exclusively online programs are ineligible); 

plan to be enrolled for at least one full academic semester (half-year term) after award of the MMEG grant;

plan to graduate no later than three years after the award of the MMEG grant;

not be related to a World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund, or Inter-American Development Bank staff member, spouse, retiree, or MMEG Board member.

complete an application and (for finalists) be prepared to be interviewed in English for South Africa, US-Canada, and Trinity Washington University programs, in Spanish for the LAC Program, and in French for the France Program.

BENEFIT:

Up to US$7,000 in the South Africa

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