Call For Readers For The 2025 Mandela Washington Fellowship
Seeking Readers for 2025 Fellowship Applications
The U.S. Department of State and IREX are seeking academic, professional, and regional experts to read and score applications for the 2025 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Over the first nine years of the Fellowship, the program received nearly 434,000 applications from 49 sub-Saharan African countries for 7,200 Fellow slots. Your talents and expertise in helping score our high volume of applications are greatly appreciated!
The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders is the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). The Fellowship brings young leaders to the United States for academic coursework and leadership training to create unique opportunities for Fellows and U.S. citizens to collaborate, spur economic growth and prosperity, strengthen democratic governance, and enhance peace and security across Africa and the United States. In summer 2025, the Fellowship will bring up to 700 young leaders to the United States for a comprehensive executive-stye program designed to build skills and empower Fellows to lead in their respective sectors and communities.
Eligibility
Ideal readers are academics and/or professionals with expertise in one or more of the Fellowship’s thematic areas (business, civic engagement, or public management), or who have experience working in Africa or on sub-Saharan African issues. U.S. Government employees and Fellowship Alumni are eligible.
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Eures30 Youth Video Competition 2024
Join the Celebration:
Apply Now for the #EURES30 Youth Video Competition
The leading European service for job mobility and fair recruitment EURES celebrates 30 years of helping young people find their dream jobs all over Europe. To mark our anniversary, we wish to hear from you! Send us your video and tell us: How can EURES help you achieve your dream job in Europe?
Where in Europe would you love to boost your career?
How do you imagine your dream job? Where do you wish to travel for work abroad? Which profession inspires you? What are your skills? What would you like to learn next?
To all young job seekers out there, these are only some of the questions to think about when creating your video story. This is your chance to share your ideas, showcase your creativity, and inspire others by spreading the message that EURES anywhere in Europe, has the right job for young people!
How to take part in the competition?
Take a look at the eligibility criteria:
If you are a citizen or resident in a EURES country, between 18 and 30 years old, and you:
- are looking for your dream job;
- are still in training about to start looking for your first job;
- are a high school student;
- have recently graduated from university;
- are interested in working abroad in Europe;
- are ready to broaden your horizons, learn new skills, and get on the right path towards your dream career
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TECH POLICY FELLOWSHIP 2024-25
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: TECH POLICY FELLOWSHIP, 2024-25
Our work at Tech Global Institute is rooted in advancing equity for the Global Majority on the Internet. We focus on the design, governance and processes that underpin modern technologies, and have a profound impact on Global Majority communities. Past efforts have focused on specific harms. We are primarily interested in why these harms happen in the first place. We investigate the assumptions underlying policies, products and processes shaping the Internet and explore the systemic issues that lead to downstream online experiences.
The past decade has witnessed tremendous technological progress. However, much of the debate on the policies governing them have excluded Global Majority communities. As a result, these policies are disconnected from lived realities, undermine fundamental rights, exacerbate the opportunity gap, and risk harming people.
Thematic Areas
Applicants may submit a project proposal that responds to one or more of the following thematic areas within Global Majority contexts:
- Platform accountability, particularly in the areas of:
- Privacy
- Content moderation
- Algorithmic transparency
- Policy creation
- User experience and access to complaints/recourse
- Global Internet governance
- National or international regulations and laws defining citizens’ online lives, including intermediary liability
- Digital infrastructures, including public digitisation initiatives
- Digital rights, and/or surveillance
- Responsible and inclusive AI with a Global Majority focus
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION VISIT, TECH POLICY FELLOWSHIP
UNDP Timbuktoo Fintech Startup Accelerator Program 2024
Overview
The timbuktoo Fintech Startup Accelerator Programme is a Pan-African initiative of the timbuktoo Fintech Hub in Lagos, Nigeria supporting startups that:
- Are deploying technology solutions in the financial services sector: These are startups that have a technology-enabled solution at its core, utilising digital tools and platforms to drive innovation and efficiency in the financial sector.
- Are contributing towards the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs): Startups whose solutions contribute towards one or more of the SDGs, by promoting growth, industrialisation, trade, education, health, and inclusive governance among others.
- Are highly scalable: Startups that demonstrate high scalability either through digital distribution channels or the ability to scale their userbase rapidly across markets in Africa.
- Hold a defensible position: Startups that have a defensible position, whether through Intellectual Property (IP) rights, network effects, domain expertise, or regional market dominance - ensuring sustainable competitive advantage in the fintech landscape.
- Have a strong monetisation strategy: Startups with a clear and sustainable monetisation strategy, showcasing a path to profitability and long-term financial viability.
Who can apply to the Programme?
Applications are open to technology-focused entrepreneurs and startup founders across Africa aged between 18 and 35, who can build, or are already building, fintech startups that meet the following criteria:
- Startups with founders who are citizens of an African country.
- Startups must be locally owned and based in any African country.
- Startups leveraging technology in the financial services sector to capitalize on complex development opportunities and solve challenges.
- Startups with a minimum viable product.
- Startups with existing corporate governance systems, accountability, social and environmental safeguards.
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Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) Kenya 2024
The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE)
The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) is an award-winning training and coaching platform specifically designed for women microbusiness owners. It gives enterprising women the knowledge, networks, and access they need to launch and scale successful businesses. By promoting women’s economic opportunities and ensuring that women have the capabilities and resources needed to participate in the economy, the AWE program directly supports the U.S. National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality.
Who can participate?
- Kenyan women entrepreneurs, aged 25 to 45, who reside in Nairobi.
- Seeking to grow their business and have at least 2–3 years of entrepreneurial experience.
- Commitment to scale their business or explore international trade.
- Commit to actively participate in all program components and impact assessments.
- Have basic computer skills and access to the internet.
- Own and/or lead a business with demonstrated potential for growth.
- Must be able to commit on average five hours per week to AWE both physically and virtually as required by the program.
- Have a good understanding of both written and spoken English.
Women who hold elected or appointed government positions are not eligible for this program.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT, AWE
Ideation Hub Africa Women in Development Summit 2024
Women in Development
The Women in Development (WID) Summit is a strategic networking and mentorship convening for women working in the development sector, non-profits, social enterprises, civil society organizations, international development agencies, advocacy groups or CSR divisions of corporate institutions and multinationals. We are carefully curating a transformational experience and rallying point for Nigerian and African women who are actively working for a better continent.
This event will convene as a no-holds-barred, conversational, and inspiring Summit that connects influential voices, leaders and mentors in non-profit leadership, impact investing, global development, sustainability and socially responsible business with female social innovators, Executive Directors, and emerging practitioners in the space.
We believe you should be part of this extraordinary opportunity to learn, connect, gain mentorship insights, get your questions answered and stoke new fire for your social mission. The exclusive Summit will be hosted for 250 – 300 leading women only, and we will unveil more information about our speakers and mentors in a few weeks.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION VISIT, WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT
WHL Heritage Place Lab 2024-2025
Heritage Place Lab 2024-2025
The World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme is launching a second edition of the Heritage Place Lab (HPL), focused on strengthening networks across research and site management in the context of the World Heritage Convention.
We invite World Heritage site managers who are seeking collaborations with researchers to improve their management processes and decision-making. The Heritage Place Lab 2024-2025 will consist of a series of online and in-person workshops to be held between September 2024 and April 2025.
How to apply for the Heritage Place Lab
Applications should be submitted to the World Heritage Leadership via email at whl@iccrom.org by 15 June 2024.
The application process includes the submission of the following documents:
- Complete the application form in English in PDF format
- A brief version of the curriculum vitae of all members of the site management team
- Official endorsements by site management institutions authority(ies).
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ACU Routledge/Round Table Common Wealth Studentship 2024
Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentships
PhD studentships providing funding for research projects on Commonwealth-related themes.
The Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth PhD Studentships provide support for research projects on Commonwealth-related themes.
The studentships are funded by The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and the journal’s publisher, Routledge, in association with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).
Proposed research must meet at least one of the following criteria:
- Relate to the Commonwealth as a whole or to any Commonwealth-wide institution or organisation.
- Have a Commonwealth comparative aspect.
- Be of relevance to more than one Commonwealth country.
Successful applicants will be required to submit an article of between 4,000 and 6,000 words based on their research, for consideration for publication in The Round Table journal. They will also be required to make a podcast on their research, for publication on the journal’s website.
Who can apply?
Applications are welcomed from a broad range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Preference may be given to disciplines usually covered by The Round Table journal, including (but not exclusively) politics, international relations, economics, international history, geography, law, development studies, and area studies.
It is not expected that the applicant’s PhD/DPhil research already has a Commonwealth focus. Applications are particularly welcomed where the award will enable the applicant to add a Commonwealth dimension to the work.
How to apply
- Review the application guidance page
- Download and complete the application form
- Send the completed form and a current CV to secretary@commonwealthroundtable.co.uk
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WFP Niger innovation Challenge 2024: Energy for food Security
Energy acts as a catalyst for socio-economic transformations, influencing all dimensions of sustainable development. Access to energy is a cornerstone in achieving food security and eliminating hunger. Not only is energy essential for food consumption—much of the food distributed by the World Food Programme (WFP) requires cooking—but it also plays a vital role throughout food systems in production, processing and preservation.