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Home»Search by Region»Africa»20 Fellowships for Leaders & Innovators Currently Open – June 21, 2024

20 Fellowships for Leaders & Innovators Currently Open – June 21, 2024

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1. Digital Catapult Black Founders Programme 2024

The Black Founders Programme is a 13-week accelerator targeted at pre-seed or seed stage, Black founded companies creating innovative products and services in the creative industries.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: July 7

2. Graça Machel Trust Women Creating Wealth – (WIW-I) Intergenerational Program 2024.

The program aims to transform Africa’s economies through meaningful support to women entrepreneurs to enable them to grow and in so doing, uplift their communities and productive exchange and collaboration between women.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: July 12

3. Hurford Youth Fellowship 2024-2025

Do you have great ideas about how to promote democracy in your community? Are you ready to build your leadership skills? Would you like to meet other vouth leaders from around the world? Now’s your chance! Apply for the Hurford Youth Fellowship 2024-2025!
Click here to find out more | Deadline: July 31

4. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Youth 4 Policy Innovation Fellowship 2024

The Youth 4 Policy (Y4P Innovation Fellowship is designed to nurture young and emerging policymakers keen on transforming Uganda’s startup ecosystem. They are seeking highly passionate and qualified individuals to conduct in-depth research and produce valuable, high-quality policy papers that will scale and support the emergence of Uganda’s nascent startup sector.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: June 19

5. Global Changemaker Fellowship 2024

The Global Changemaker Fellowship is a six-month advancement virtual program intended to interface and develop a pipeline of Social Change Leaders who are focused on handling challenges in their local communities.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: July 15

6. Asia Foundation Development Fellows Program 2025

The Asia Foundation Development Fellows program is a dynamic and multifaceted learning program designed for highly talented Asian individuals under age 40 to enhance their leadership skills, Asian development knowledge, professional networks, and international exposure. The program reflects the Foundation’s nearly seven-decade tradition of investing in the region’s most promising future leaders.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: July 29

7. Climate Arena Fellowships 2024 for Journalists

At Climate Arena, they have a fellowship opportunity for those who have a cross-border and investigative climate story idea and are eager to work in a team setting. Your project idea could be investigative, or data-related, or both.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: June 25

8. HumAngle Technology and Civic Impact Fellowship 2024

With the aim of providing cutting-edge technology and innovation training to members of the civic society and other actors in the space, the Fellowship will help selected professionals to leverage technology for actionable advocacy and accountability within public institutions.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: July 12

9. Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) 2025

The objective of the Global Innovation Fellowships is to provide opportunities to UK-based early- and mid-career researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to develop their skills, networks and careers in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: Sept 25

10. Youth Co:Lab Springboard Elevate Programme 2024

The Springboard Elevate Programme is a 3-month fellowship programme that support purpose-driven social entrepreneurs who lead impact projects that improve the lives of under-represented communities.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: August 15

11. Chauncey Bailey Journalist of Color Investigative Reporting Fellowship 2025.

The yearlong program is intended to prepare and support a journalist of color for a solid career in investigative reporting. The program also provides an opportunity for the fellow’s news outlets to benefit from the fellow’s investigative skill-building.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: September 21

12. Bertha Challenge Fellowship 2025 for Activists & Investigative Journalists.

This is an opportunity for activists and investigative journalists to spend a year working on one pressing social justice challenge and to deliver a body of work at the end of the Fellowship year.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: July 12

13.  Global Good Fund Fellowship 2025

The Global Good Fund Fellowship is for innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders of for-profit and nonprofit social impact organizations. This program is for emerging leaders and entrepreneurs with diverse ethnic, religious, economic, geographic and gender experiences. Ideal entrepreneurs are dedicated to their own self-discovery and development and must hold a full-time leadership position at their social enterprise which has been operational for ideally two to five years.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: June 30

14. Ahimsa Fellowship Programme 2024-2025

The Ahimsa Fellowship is a beacon of transformative leadership in animal protection, cultivating individuals to drive change across India. Over eight months, Fellows receive rigorous training to tackle critical animal protection issues effectively-they delve into diverse animal protection issues, developing tools to navigate complex advocacy landscapes; and are intensively trained to facilitate their leadership in advocacy efforts towards securing and implementing favourable animal protection policies.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: July 8

15. Foundry Fellowship 2024-2025

The Foundry Fellowship is an eight-month, transformative experience for accomplished entrepreneurs who are committed to leading the acceleration and interconnection of Africa’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: June 30

16. Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellowship 2024

The IIE-SRF is the only global program that arranges, funds, and supports fellowships for threatened and displaced scholars at partnering higher education institutions worldwide.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: Rolling Basis

17. African Private Equity Fellowship – Fall 2024

Join African Private Equity Fellowship, an initiative launched by Proparco with the support of leading African funds. This program is made for you if you are an active finance professional in Africa (PE, VC, Debt…), willing to accelerate your career, willing to develop your network and ready to commit up to 3 hours per week for 6 months.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: July 24

18. Harry Evans Fellowship in Investigative Journalism 2025

The Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship provides an unrivalled opportunity for an exceptional early career journalist: a nine-month fellowship with Durham University and Reuters to undertake an investigative project. The Fellow will be mentored by top Reuters editors while having access to Durham’s academics and research resources and will be given the opportunity to develop rigorous, fact-based research and reporting skills.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: July 15

19.  IREX Community Engagement Exchange (CEE) Program 2025.

The CEE Program is a dynamic global network of innovators working with communities to address critical 21st Century issues. CEE equips dedicated visionaries with the expertise, skills, and resources to develop multisector approaches and build healthy and engaged communities in over 100 countries.
Click link to find out more | Deadline: July 2

20. British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh 2025

Applications are open for the British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh 2025. As the British Council celebrates their 90th anniversary in 2024, they are delighted to announce a new research partnership with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh.
Click link of find out more | Deadline: July 26

For more information, visit our Fellowships Page. 

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