Ministry of Youth and Sports announces the "Gamal Abdel Nasser" Leadership Fellowship
- 2019-05-08 13:31:45
The Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports (Central Administration of the Parliament and Civic Education - African Youth Bureau) announces the “Nasser Fellowship for African Leadership” during the period from June 8 to 22, in Cairo.
The Fellowship targets 100 young
bright leaders from the African Union member States, as Decision-makers in the Government
Sector, Executive Leaders in the Private Sector - Civil Society Activists -
Heads of National Councils for Youth - Faculty members at Universities -
Researchers in Strategic Research Centers - Members of Trade Unions -
Journalists and Media Professionals.
Based on the results of the
second African Youth Forum, held in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, from 24
to 26 April 2019, to invest in African youth, the Nasser Fellowship is one of
the mechanisms to implement the Million by 2021 initiative, launched to empower
and develop young people in Africa by building the capacities of one million
young Africans in the areas of education, employment, entrepreneurship and
participation by 2021, same objective that the Nasser Fellowship strives to
achieve in the educational sector.
The aim of the Fellowship is to
transfer the long-established Egyptian experience in national
institution-building and to create a new generation of young African
transformational leadership whose vision is in line with the orientations of
Egypt's presidency of the African Union, and which is committed to serving the
objectives of African unity through integration in a changing world.
The selection criteria of
participants:
1.
The applicant must be a non-Egyptian African and non-resident in Egypt.
2.
Passport valid for 6 months after the end of the Fellowship.
3.
English speaking proficiency (Speaking, Reading and Writing).
4.
The applicant must have experience in field work.
5.
The applicant must be between the ages of 20 and 35.
6.
The applicant shall have the nationality of an African Union country or African
Diaspora.
It should be noted that Nasser
Fellowship is the first (African-African) fellowship to target young African
executive leaders with diverse operational disciplines within their
communities, as well as one of the critical mechanisms of empowerment of the
African transformational leadership endorsed by the African Union’s Agenda (in
text) in order to stimulate and promote African values through self-reliance,
solidarity, hard work, collective prosperity, building on the African
successes, experiences and best practices for the formulation of the African
model of transformation and development. The Fellowship is also one of the
mechanisms of "harnessing the demographic dividend through investment in
youth" in conjunction with the assumption by Egypt of the presidency of
the African Union in 2019.
Link of the application form
https://forms.gle/G8BcwbUKKaGnHXeZ8
For Arabic: http://www.emys.gov.eg/details/8977
For French: http://www.emys.gov.eg/fr/details/news/66
For Swahili: http://www.emys.gov.eg/sw/details/news/119
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