Every year, the Acumen West Africa Fellows program will bring together 20 extraordinary individuals from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi and South Sudan, and equip them with the knowledge, support system and practical wisdom to drive positive change in society. Over the course of a year, Fellows will take part in five week-long seminars, where they will receive the tools, training and space to innovate new ideas, accelerate their impact, build a strong network of social leaders from across their region and around the world.
The Acumen Fellowship program is an intensive leadership development program cultivating a pipeline of tomorrow’s social change-makers. Over the course of a year, Fellows remain in their jobs while participating in five in-person, multi-day immersive seminars and engaging in online content between seminars. Currently operating in Colombia, East Africa, India, Pakistan, and West Africa, the Fellows Program equips leaders from across the country or region with the knowledge, skills and community to become more effective, collaborative agents of change.
WORTH
- Acumen covers all program-related expenses during the fellowship year. This includes all costs associated with the seminars including lodging, food, transportation and visas.
ELIGIBILITY
The Fellows are individuals who dare to do what’s right, not what’s easy, to create positive change in their country. Fellows can come from diverse cultural, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds and work in any sector, and they must be committed to ending poverty in their community through their work. They are individuals who are making a long-term play at system-level impact and are seeking the leadership skills and moral imagination to make it happen
The Fellows we seek are:
- Entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, policy makers, community mobilizers and social innovators
- Men and women of all ages and education levels who are able to participate in a program conducted in English
- Pakistanis who have a demonstrated history of impact, commitment and concrete connection to the region
- Leaders with strong personal integrity, unrelenting perseverance and moral imagination
- Committed individuals ready to undergo an intensive year-long personal transformation and leadership journey followed by an induction into the larger Fellows Community
To apply and for more information visit here
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