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Applications are now open for the Aspen Institute New Voices Fellowship 2021 for Development Experts Deadline: October 2020   Nominations are open for the Aspen Institute New Voices Fellowship 2021. The Fellowship offers development experts from Africa, Asia, and Latin America a year-long program of media support, advocacy lessons, training, and writing under the guidance of experienced mentors and trainers. On average, Fellows devote 10% of their working time towards the Fellowship over the course of the year. The program helps Fellows sharpen their messages, elevate their stories, focus their media targets, and communicate their insights across a variety of media platforms – illuminating crucial perspectives for a broad worldwide audience in order to champion policy change. Fellows come from a variety of disciplines, ranging from public health to education to poverty alleviation, agriculture, and community activism. All Fellows are experts in their field with a deep und...

  Applications are open for Carnegie/ACLS African Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2020-2021 Deadline: 4 th December, 2020   Applications are open for the Carnegie/ACLS African Humanities Program 2020-2021. The fellowship invites scholars who are within eight years of receiving the PhD degree, who are citizens of Sub-Saharan African countries, and who are currently working at universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.   Goals of the fellowship; To encourage and enable the production of new knowledge and new approaches to research. To strengthen the capacity of early career researchers and faculty at African universities. To advance the humanities by establishing networks for scholarly communication throughout Africa and with Africanists worldwide. Fellowship Details Fellowship stipends free recipients from teaching and other duties for a full academic year to concentrate on scholarly wor...

  Applications are now open for the MoIbrahim Foundation Leadership Fellowship Programme Deadline: October 12, 2020 Applicants can now apply for the Mo Ibrahim Foundation Leadership Fellowship Programme 2021 at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. As part of its programme to support member States, UNECA is partnering with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to promote leadership development through a practical and on-the-job fellowship. AIM The programme is aimed at enabling young African professionals to develop leadership capacity in a large institution, gain knowledge of the functioning of the United Nations, have better understanding of Africa’s socio-economic challenges and contribute to the analytical, advocacy and policy advisory work of the Commission. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is financing this Fellowship position in the UNECA. The Fellow will perform the duties and responsibilities of the position at the headquarters of UNECA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Duti...