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Application Deadline:Friday 18th December 2020 12 noon UK time The 2020 New Media Writing Prize is now open for entries. The New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) showcases exciting and inventive …

Application Deadline: October 31st 2020 In the Sahel and like everywhere in West Africa, social constraints most often confine women to secondary roles in the media. Misconceptions tend to limit the …

Application Deadline: November 30th 2020 Intelsat is now partnering with XinaBox to deliver space-focused STEM learning tools to teenagers across the African continent. Intelsat is sponsoring scholarships, each worth hundreds of dollars, …

Application Deadline: 23 November 2020. The United Nations Regional Course in International Law for Africa is organized by the Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in …

Application Deadline: November 10, 2020 The Department of State annually administers the statutorily-created Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides for a class …

The Earthshot Prize is the most ambitious and prestigious of its kind – designed to incentivise change and help to repair our planet over the next ten years. Taking inspiration …

The Aliko Dangote Foundation-VDMA partnership involves the collaboration between the Aliko Dangote Foundation, the VDMA (Mechanical Engineering Industry Association) and its Foundation for Young Talent in Mechanical Engineering (Nachwuchsstiftung Maschinenbau …

Application Deadline: December 31st 2020 For 2021 UPG is training and certifying 500 young leaders from all over the world and flying 60 of them to a FREE, complementary and immersive …

Application Deadline: December 15th 2020 Future Bora aims to catalyze interventions that expand economic opportunities for the most vulnerable and under-served Kenyan youth between the age of 18 and 29 years. By …

Application Deadline: October 31st 2020 APO Group, the leading pan-African communications and business consultancy, presents the second annual APO Group African Women in Media Award set to recognise, celebrate and …

Application Deadline:8 November 2020, 23.59 CET. The Swiss Re Foundation Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award recognises entrepreneurial initiatives that take innovative approaches to building resilient societies and realising the United Nations …

Application Deadline: 1 December 2020 In collaboration with UNESCO and a number of centres of excellence in the South, TWAS has instituted a Joint Associateship Scheme to enable competent researchers …

Application Deadline: November 2nd 2020 The Deji Alli ARM Young Talent Award is an ARM initiative in partnership with TechnoVision’s TVC Labs that aims at providing young Nigerians with an …

Application Deadline:31st December 2020 (23:59 GMT). StartupXs has launched “ChangeMakers Seed Grant Opportunity 2021” for startups and social enterprises who want to change their community with their innovative business ideas. This …

The UK is home to several of the world’s top universities, renowned not only for their research quality and graduate prospects but also their multi-culturalism and global outlook. UK universities …

Application Deadline: October 13th 2020 The Graça Machel Trust works across the continent on three issues: women’s rights, children’s rights, and governance and leadership. We catalyse action, support local initiatives, …

Application Deadline:30 October 2020: In this challenging year, the power of women in leadership was brought into high relief. Female leaders across the world steered their countries with resolve and …

Application Deadline: 21 October 2020 at 5.00 p.m.  YouTube is a platform that celebrates a broad and diverse set of voices that make YouTube, YouTube. Promoting the diversity of our Creator …

Application Deadline: November 4, 2020. The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) invite proposals from independent policy research organizations from across the African continent …

Application Deadline: October 28th 2020 The UK-Nigeria Tech Hub is now accepting applications for the Future Females Business School Tech Programme 2020. This programme supports female Nigerian entrepreneurs who are utilising technology …

Application Deadline:16th October, 2020 at 23:59CAT. Innovations play a critical role in providing solutions to existing challenges in our communities. National Technology Business Centre (NTBC) and UNDP’s Accelerator Lab in …

Application Deadline:14 January 2021. IIASA offers PhD student fellowships to undertake a summer project on a topic related to the IIASA research agenda. Annually, from 1 June to 31 August, …

Application Deadline: November 20th 2020 McKinsey invite individuals who are passionate about Africa to apply to African Leaders on the Move to learn more about McKinsey offices, roles, and work …

Application Deadline: 2nd November 2020, 05:00 PM, East Africa Time UN-Habitat’s Global Public Space Programme is launching a call for proposals (CFP) to seek partnership in the implementation of innovative …

Application Deadline: November 2nd, 2020 The Canadian High Commission in South Africa has partnered with the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) to run an eCommerce Capacity Development Programme …

Application Deadline: October 19, 2020 at 5:00pm EAT Internews’ Earth Journalism Network is offering journalists from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda reporting grants of up to $2,000 to produce investigative …

Application Deadline: October 23rd 2020 As the world learns to live with the coronavirus, the #BuildBackBetter Digital Innovation and AI Challenge will offer a platform for women-led start-ups to advance …

Application Deadline: October 11th 2020 The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) is aiming to contract a freelance journalist to research and write engaging news stories on a …

Application Deadline: Monday, October 26th 2020Facebook Developer Circles are a global network of local communities, designed to support developers as they build skills, grow ideas and boost their careers.  Every …

Application Deadline: October 9th 2020 The employability partnership with the United States African Development Programme (USADF) is targeted at equipping 3,000 Lagos residents, between the ages of 18-35years with industry …

Application Deadline: 3 November 2020 A number of TWAS Fellows will be offered appointments as TWAS Research Professors for a period of five years, during which he/she will be expected …

Application Deadline: 30 September 2020 at 23:59 CET (Paris Time) The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is pleased to announce the Call for Projects for the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) Campaign 2021 ‘Fostering …

Application Deadline: 11th October 2020 Metta in partnership with the UK-Kenya Tech Hub presents the Startup-SME linkage program aimed at providing tech startups direct linkages to SMEs which fall under …

Application Deadline: October 9th 2020 Come shape the post-COVID-19 economic recovery of Ghana or Nigeria. The New Economy Booster program is a chance to do so!  The goal is to …

Application Deadline: 28 October 2020 A group of young and motivated professional film critics from outside the Netherlands are invited to cover our festival. IFFR provide them with the means …

Application Deadline: Ongoing Commonwealth100 is open to young leaders who are from a Commonwealth country, or who currently live, work or study in a Commonwealth country, and are interested in …

Application Deadline: 7th October 2020 Decolonial Futures is an exchange programme organised between the Sandberg Instituut, the Rietveld Academie and Framer Framed in Amsterdam and Funda Community College in Soweto, South Africa. The programme was inspired by the desire …

Application Deadline: October 4th 2020 Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with the African Centre for Media Excellence is looking for journalists based anywhere in Africa who are motivated to understand how their …

Application Deadline: 30th of September 2020 The Amujae Initiative is the Center’s flagship program. Amujae, pronounced ӓ mōō jāēē, means ‘we are going up’ in Kru, a Liberian language. Launched on International Women’s Day, March …