Women Deliver Young Leaders Program & Scholarships To Attend 2016 Conference

Deadline: 1 March 2015

Women Deliver invites youth under the age of 30 to apply for three-year fellowship program entitled Young Leaders Program. The program is aimed at developing the skills of youth advocates through online learning communities, seed grant funding, and high-level networking and media opportunities. The young leaders should commit up to 10 hours a week during the three-years’ leaders program.

Young Leaders will get opportunity to

1. Attend the Women Deliver 2016 Conference during 16-19 May 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark with full scholarship
2. Participate in capacity-building e-learning opportunities that cover sexual and reproductive health and rights issues, advocacy, communications, proposal writing, project management, and monitoring and evaluation.
3. Apply for seed grant funding to implement a community-based project. The fellows must fully participate in and complete both e-courses in their entirety to be eligible for seed grant.
4. Make connections with a wide range of people working in the field, including high-level policymakers, donors, and journalists.
5. Join a network of former and current Young Leaders as well as professional mentors to increase advocacy around sexual and reproductive health and rights in their home countries.
6. Attend a two-day youth pre-conference workshop on advocacy around maternal health, with a focus on communications and new technologies, and serve as a youth representative at the conference.

Youth who are not interested in becoming youth leader but willing to attend the conference can apply for scholarship to participate in the conference. Selected participants can get chance to serve as youth representative at the conference and connect with the wide range of policymakers, donors, activists, and journalists in attendance.

A full scholarship to the Women Deliver 2016 Conference includes – conference registration, roundtrip airfare, reimbursement of the cost to acquire a new visa to enter Denmark, $50 for ground transportation to and from the airport within home country and round trip ground transportation between the Copenhagen airport and hotel, overnight accommodation, and $50 per diem, per night stayed at the hotel to attend the conference.

Note the Key Dates

1. 1 March 2015: Application deadline
2. 1 May 2015: Notification to selected applicants
3. 15 June 2015: Deadline for confirmation from the winners

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants can be youth under 30 years from anywhere around the world.
• Applicants must have high level of proficiency in English language.
• To become Youth leader, applicants must be passionate about maternal, sexual, and reproductive health and rights.
• For Conference scholarship, applicants must be working to advance the health, rights, and well-being of girls and women in their community and around the world.

Note: Women Deliver will cover the costs of obtaining visa and provide supporting documentation, to enter Denmark.

For more information, please visit Women Deliver Young Leaders Program.