Fellowship for women leading work at the nexus of climate change, gender and agriculture in Africa
📣 Call for applications: African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Fellowship announces a new fellowship for African women professionals working at the nexus of:
🌍 Gender
🚨 Climate Change
🌾 Agrifood systems
Accelerating African Women’s Leadership in Climate Action is a career development fellowship that aims to increase both the number of African women leading climate action and the development of climate solutions designed to address the needs of women and men smallholders.
The fellowship is open to women in Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Senegal. It is supported under the CLimate Adaptation REsilience (CLARE) programme, jointly run by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) / CRDI.
The fellowship is targeting 300 participants in total. This includes 100 women climate change professionals who will be supported through immersive training and mentoring to advance their technical capacity, leadership, networking, and outreach skills. Each Fellow will be paired with a mentor with extensive experience in climate action, they will further nominate a junior scientist, a mentee to maximize the reach of the initiative.
🗓️ Deadline to apply: 10 September, 2024
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