THE AWOLA INITIATIVE

AWOLA (Africa Women Leaders in Agro-ecology) is a leadership career development initiative, with the aim of equipping women working on agroecology, sustainable agriculture and food systems with leadership skills.

BENEFIT

• Mentorship: The actual mentorship will entail a process where mentee and mentors who are at different scales and career levels develop supportive relationships around their professional and personal capacities.
• Training: AWOLA will support mentees in a 1 year program (through virtual and face to face sessions), who will be trained to become leaders and effective negotiators.
• Development of leadership innovation ideas: The mentees and mentors will be supported to work on innovation ideas.

SELECTION PROCESS

• The AWOLA mentees and mentors will be identified through a competitive selection process that will include assessing their experience and leadership potential in agroecology, agriculture, and food systems development.
• Potential mentees and mentors will respond to an open call for application that will require them to demonstrate their suitability
• A selection panel of experts in agroecology, agriculture, food systems and leadership will review the applications. The final selection will be carried out by the AWOLA advisory panel.

APPLICATION

• APPLICATION FOR MENTEES
• APPLICATION FOR MENTORS

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