APPLY: Netherlands Fellowship Programmes by NUFFIC: Short Courses to Build Capacity

The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP) promote capacity building within organisations in 51 countries by providing fellowships for training and education for professionals. The NFP is initiated and fully funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the budget for development cooperation.

Programmes under NFP

The NFP has three sub programmes for individual fellowships:

1. Short courses
2. Master’s degree programmes
3. PhD studies

The programmes seeks to divide the scholarship budget such that

• 50% of the budget is for applications from Sub Saharan Africa.
• 50% of fellowships has to be awarded to female applicants.

WORTH

Allowance for costs of living, the costs of tuition fees, visas, travel, insurance and thesis research.

ELIGIBILITY

• Applicants must be the nationals of 51 NFP countries( stated above) working as a professionals.
• Candidates have to be nominated by their employer to be eligible for the fellowship.
• Applicant must meet a number of criteria that support the aim of the NFP. To be eligible, applicant-
  • must be a national of, and working and living in one of the countries on the NFP country list;
  • must have an employer’s statement that complies with the format Nuffic has provided.
  • must not be employed by an organisation that has its own means of staff-development. Organisations that are considered to have their own means for staff development are for example:
    • multinational corporations (e.g. Shell, Unilever, Microsoft),
    • large national and/or a large commercial organisations,
    • bilateral donor organisations (e.g. USAID, DFID, Danida, Sida, Dutch ministry of Foreign affairs, FinAid, AusAid, ADC, SwissAid),
    • multilateral donor organisations, (e.g. a UN organization, the World Bank, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, IADB),
    • international NGO’s (e.g. Oxfam, Plan, Care);
  • must have an official and valid passport;
  • must not receive more than one fellowship for courses that take place at the same time;
  • must have a government statement that meets the requirements of the country in which the employer is established (if applicable).

DEADLINE: 18^th March, 2015

To apply and for more information visit here