Application Deadline: 15 November 2021 The INSTITUT FRANÇAIS launches a call for applications for its programme at the Cité internationale des arts for residencies between April 2022 and April 2023. …
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Application Deadline: October 1st 2021 AgroHack Challenge is seeking innovative ideas across the value chain of the agriculture industry. These ideas will be accelerated to create new opportunities for many young …
IREX Community Solutions Program 2022/2023 for Community youth leaders (Fully Funded to the United States)
Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. EDT The Community Solutions Program (CSP) is a year-long professional leadership development program for people who are working to improve their …
AfDB African Youth Adaptation Solutions (YouthAdapt) Challenge 2021 for young African Entrepreneurs ( $100,000 Business grant & Full Funded to Glasgow, Scotland)
Application Deadline: October 6th, 2021 The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the African Development Bank have launched a call for applications for the first edition of the African Youth …
Application Deadline: September 19th 2021 The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is one of the leading research institutes on development policy. Through excellent research, policy advice …
Application Deadline: September 17th 2021 Calling on master’s students, doctoral students and young researchers to work together across academic, social, geographic, cultural and legislative boundaries on combating plastic waste and …
Culture Resource Production Awards Program 2022 for Artists and Writers from MENA Region.
Application Deadline: 8 November 2021 The Culture Resource Production Awards program supports artists and writers from the Arab region, below the age of 35, by offering grants to enable them …
Application Deadline:26 September 2021. Cultural leadership is one of the most significant ways we can collectively invest in the future of the arts sector, and grow the reach and impact …
Iso Lomso Fellowships 2022 for Early Career African Researchers (Fully Funded)
Application Deadline: 15 February 2022 Iso Lomso means ‘the eye of tomorrow’ in isiXhosa: seeing towards the future, laying the foundations for tomorrow. The programme is aimed at African scholars …
MEST Scale venture acceleration program 2021 for Ghanaian small and medium enterprises.
Application Deadline: October 18, 2021 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a critical role in Ghana’s socio-economic growth. They represent over 80% of enterprises in the Ghanaian market. However, despite …
Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021/2022 Reporting on Illicit Finance in Africa workshop for African Journalists (Funded)
Application Deadline: September 27th, 2021 Thomson Reuters Foundation is looking for journalists based anywhere in Africa who are motivated to understand how their country could be losing money via illicit means. …
U.S. State Department/ICFJAfrica Regional Journalism Workshops 2021 for African Journalists
Application Deadline:September 22, 2021 11:59 p.m. EST. The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), with the support of the U.S. State Department office of Africa Regional Services, is now recruiting African …
The DW Akademie Film Development Fund 2022 for filmmakers from the Global South. ( 10,000 Euros)
Application Deadline: October 25th 2021 The DW Akademie Film Development Fund has been designed to support filmmakers from the Global South who are passionate about storytelling and want to build their careers. …
D-Prize Challenge 2022 Prize for Social Entrepreneurs to fight Poverty ($USD 20,000)
Application Deadline:November 28, 2021 at midnight PT (pacific time) D-Prize supports new entrepreneurs who distribute proven poverty interventions. The world has already invented products and services to end poverty. Yet …
Call for Applications: African Union, African Youth Ambassadors for Peace (AYAP)
Application Deadline: September 30th 2021 As part of the efforts to advance the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda of the African Union (AU), the Peace and Security Department (now …
TWAS Sustainability Visiting Expert Programme 2021 for scientists in developing countries.
Application Deadline: 1 October 2021 This programme provides institutions and research groups in developing countries, especially the Least Developed Countries and those with limited outside contacts, with opportunities to establish …
The Ashoka Changemakers Everywhere Academy Program for Young Social Entrepreneurs.
Application Deadline: September 20th, 2021 Are you a visionary social innovator within the good governance space looking to learn how to scale your social impact and be a part of a …
InfoNile Investigating Water Stories Workshop Training 2021 for Reporters and Editors (Fully Funded to Uganda)
Application Deadline: 23rd September 2021 InfoNile is calling for applications for training, workshop and mentorship on investigating threats to freshwater biodiversity in the Lake Victoria basin. Teams of three (2 reporters …
SAB Foundation Tholoana Enterprise Programme 2021 for young South African Entrepreneurs.
Application Deadline: September 30th 2021 The SAB Foundation Tholoana Enterprise Programme is looking for entrepreneurs who are committed to boosting their growth and achieving new levels of success. Since 2015, …
Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Women Entrepreneurship For Africa (WE4A) Program for female entrepreneurs (€10.000 in grant funding)
The “Women Entrepreneurship for Africa” (WE4A) program is an action jointly supported by the European Union (EU), the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the German Federal …
Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowships 2022/2023 for Women in STEM. (USD 50,000 per year grant)
Application Deadline: November 5th, 2021 The Schlumberger Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports science and technology education. Recognizing the link between science, technology, and socio-economic development, as well as …
Accountability Lab Accountability Incubator Program 2022 for young civic innovators.
Application Deadline: September 30th, 2021. The 2022 Accountability Incubator is looking for the very best ideas from young people for accountability, participation and open government. If you live in one …
Application Deadline: September 9th, 2021 LEAP Africa in partnership with Palladium under the USAID-funded Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) Project is recruiting 50 organizations from Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, …
Baraza Media Lab Incubator for non-profit & for-profit organizations in Kenya ($2500 stipend)
Application Deadline: September 17th, 2021 Baraza’s Incubator will host for-profit and non-profit organizations, as well as individuals and teams who wish to create an organization or implement a specific innovative …
Electric South New Dimensions Digital Immersive Lab 2021 for African Storytellers (Fully Funded to South Africa)
Application Deadline: 4 October 2021 Now in its 5th edition, the New Dimensions Lab brings together diverse African artists to develop stories told through creative technology alongside leading industry mentors. …
Application Deadline: 19 September 2021 GMT. House of African Feminisms (HoAF) is a regional project, aiming at regional exchange and networking of African feminists. African feminisms deal with the conditions …
Application Deadline: October 20, 2021. The Global Change Award 2022 is looking for early stage ideas that can help create a sustainable fashion future. Ideas that can change the way …
Ban Ki-Moon Center for Global Citizens (BKMC) Young Women Leadership on Climate Adaptation Program (Fully Funded)
Application Deadline: September 26, 2021 The Online Executive Training – Young Women Leadership on Climate Adaptation is a virtual educational and capacity-building program that fosters the leadership of African young …
Gates Cambridge Scholarship Programme 2022/2023 for Study at the University of Cambridge, UK (Fully Funded)
Application Deadline: 06 January 2022 The Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme was established in October 2000 by a donation of US$210m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the University …
Application Deadline: 24th September 2021 at 23:59 Eastern African Time. The Justice Innovation Circle (JIC) is the key training component of the Justice Entrepreneurship School incubation programme. The incubation programme is for …
Application Deadline: November 11th, 2021 IBM Call for Code Education Innovation Case Competition: Bringing students together to design solutions that make education a right, not a privilege. Challenge: Design an innovative …
Applications are now open for the 2021 “Liberté-Égalité-Fraternité” Human Rights Prize of the French Republic, awarded by the Prime Minister of the French Government. This Prize, created in 1988, is …
USAID-USADF Entrepreneurship Grants for 2021 Mandela Washington Fellows ($USD25,000 grant)
Application Deadline: September 21st 2021 USAID–USADF Grants for 2021 Mandela Washington Fellows Program. USADF is an independent U.S. Government agency established by the U.S. Congress to support and invest in African-owned …
The European Union (EU) Global Cultural Relations Programme 2021 for cultural changemakers and innovators.
Application Deadline: October 4th 2021. Would you like to broaden your skills in international cultural relations and network with cultural and creative practitioners around the world? The Global Cultural Relations Programme (GCRP) …
Code for Africa (CfA) Incubation Programme 2021 for early-stage media startups
Application Deadline: 15 September 2021. Are you an early-stage startup or a young journalism organisation in Ethiopia or Kenya with a keen interest in fact-checking? Code for Africa (CfA) is …
Application Deadline: 31 October 2021. Whitley Awards fund grassroots conservation leaders in the Global South and put an international spotlight on winners’ work. Whitley Awards are for dynamic, mid-career conservationists …
i-FAIR Israel Nigeria Innovation Fellowship for Aspiring Inventors and Researchers 2021/2022
Application Deadline: September 30th 2021 The Innovation Fellowship for Aspiring Inventors and Researchers is an initiative for raising a generation of innovators, inventors and researchers in Nigeria. This 9-month innovation …
Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) Digital Rights and Health Reporting Hub (East) for Journalists
Application Deadline: September 12th 2021 To support journalists reporting on data and digital rights, Thomson Reuters Foundation, with support from Fondation Botnar is organising a Reporting Hub on Digital Rights …
World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator 2021 for Solutions to Hunger (USD $100,000 in equity-free funding)
Application Deadline: 19 September 2021 at 11:59 pm (CEST). The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator sources, supports and scales bold new solutions to disrupt global hunger and achieve the Sustainable Development …
British Council UK Alumni Awards 2021/2022 for young Professionals who studied in the UK.
Application Deadline: October 29th, 2021 Applications for the Study UK Alumni Awards is now open! Raise your international profile, build your professional networks and business connections, and win a trip …
