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MO IBRAHIM FOUNDATION LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIPS

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Application Deadline: Friday, 20 October 2023

LOCATION: Multiple Region

Applications for the 2024 Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships are now open. Fellowships are open to young professionals, mid-career and new executives from Africa with relevant work experience and a master’s degree.

ELIGIBILITY:

National of an African country

Minimum 7 years’ of relevant work experience

Master’s degree

Under the age of 40, or 45 for women with children

Any additional criteria as set by the host

BENEFIT:

Each year three Fellows have an opportunity to work in the executive offices of the AfDB (Abidjan), ECA (Addis Ababa) or the ITC (Geneva), with a stipend of $100,000. 

During their 12-month programmes, Fellows gain both technical and leadership skills, while contributing directly to research and policy design. A special feature of the programme is the opportunity to benefit from the direct mentorship of the heads of the host organisations. 

Fellows also become members of the Now Generation Network (NGN), through which they continue to contribute their skills and insights to building a better Africa.

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FUTURE CONSERVATIONIST AWARDS

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Application Deadline: 10th October 2023

LOCATION: Multiple Region

The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) is a training and capacity building programme that targets individuals from developing countries who are early in their conservation career and demonstrate leadership potential.

ELIGIBILITY:

CLP Awards are for team-based conservation projects – each team must have at least three people.

50% or more of the team members must be nationals of the country where the project is taking place.

The team leader must be a national of the country where the project is taking place. Coleadership with a non-national will be considered,subject to clear justification.

All team members must be early-career conservationists with no more than five years of work experience in the conservation sector. ‘Work experience’ does not include research for a university degree. Individuals who have more than five years of work experience in the conservation sector are not eligible for CLP support and should not apply.

No team member can be a part- or full-time paid employee or contractor with a CLP partner organisation, including BirdLife International, Fauna & Flora and the Wildlife Conservation Society, at any time from project development through to implementation.

Any team member volunteering at a CLP partner organisation at the time of application and/or project implementation MUST be declared in the application. They also need to explain how the CLP proposal differs from the partner organisation’s work.

Applicants can participate in only one CLP project at a time and in no more than three Future Conservationist Award projects in total, serving as team leader for no more than one Future Conservationist project.

BENEFIT:

CLP offers Future Conservationist Awards of up to US $15,000 each to develop leadership capacity of early-career conservationists who want to make a positive difference on the ground.

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