Deadline: 21 April 2025
The call to apply for the third cohort of the Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship is now open.
The (GRASP) Fellowship is a career development program that targets African women in the policy field to catalyze the design and implementation of gender-responsive agricultural policies across Africa. The GRASP Fellowship is fostering policy change across regional, sub-regional and national levels for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Through the GRASP Fellowship, AWARD seeks to grow a pool of confident, capable, and influential African women to lead policy changes to improve African women and men smallholders’ livelihoods.
- Benefits
- The GRASP Fellowship will offer customized training in mentoring, advanced leadership skills, negotiations skills, gender in agricultural policy, and masterclasses on policy processes.
- Beneficiaries will also receive catalytic funding and access to networks to enable them to lead policy processes that integrate gender for agricultural transformation in Africa.
- Eligibility Criteria
The Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship is open to African
women who meet the criteria below:
- Nationals of Ghana, Rwanda, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda.
- Resident in Africa for the entire duration of the fellowship.
- Have at least a master’s degree in a relevant discipline in agrifood systems.
- Have at least ten years working experience in agrifood systems related areas.
- Demonstrated interest and contribution to gender and policy issues at national, regional, or continental levels.
- Employed in national and international organizations, including government agencies, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, development, civil society, regional and sub-regional communities, or academia.
- Not a Fellow of a previous or ongoing AWARD Fellowship
- Satisfactory level of proficiency in the English language to enable them participate in training and other fellowship activities.
III. Selection process
- The AWARD Policy Fellows will be competitively identified through a rigorous selection process that will include assessing their experience and leadership potential in gender, agriculture, and food systems policy development.
- Potential AWARD Policy Fellows will respond to an open call for application that will require them to demonstrate their suitability for the Fellowship.
- A selection panel of global experts in the policy field, food systems, and related fields will review the applications and select the successful applicants.
IV. How To Apply?
- Application for the GRASP Fellowship is via an online form available HERE
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