The LEAD Africa Fellowship

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LEAD Africa Fellowship Program: http://www.lead-awa.org/lead-africa-fellowship-program

The Program

LEAD-Nigeria is extending the LEAD Africa Fellowship Program to other English speaking West African countries – Ghana, S/Leone, Liberia, and The Gambia. The cohort training program is of one year duration.
From each country, 15-20 emerging LEADers from different walks of life will be recruited for the training and will be trained for 24 days spread over a 12 month duration. The training program will focus on developing a sound knowledge base on the most pressing environmentally issues and their causes and work to develop skills for sound environmental governance processes. It consists of a careful selection of conceptual inputs and field-based learning. The skill building process will consist of developing expertise in Team Building, Leadership Development, Cross-cultural Communication, Systems Thinking, Negotiation & Problem Solving Skills, Stakeholder Engagement and Consensus Building all of which promote sustainable development.



The Learning Objective

1. To develop critical awareness towards issues related to Environmental Governance and appreciating the broader context of different stakeholders.

2. To sensitize LEAD associates on water governance, forest governance and corporate social responsibility and expose them to a critical process of multi stakeholder engagement and to develop the capacity to draw up a framework of consensus building.

3. To raise sensitivity of the participants on group processes and group dynamics and sharpen skills in inter-group processes, group facilitation, problem solving and decision making, conflict resolution and Leadership development.

4. To create opportunity for networking and alliance building for sustainable development and introducing Associates to the global LEAD Fellows network (LEADnet).

Criteria and Procedure: http://www.lead-awa.org/criteria-and-procedure

• Age 25-40yrs. Should be resident in Nigeria
• University graduate, with at least two years work experience in the public, private or
  non-governmental sectors
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environment is useful
• Demonstrable leadership capacity
• High level of written and spoken English
• Versatility in, or strong potential for social networking via Facebook, Twitter, Ning
  etc. to facilitate e-learning
• Written commitment of release for the training from employers

Selection Procedure
Candidates for the program are short-listed on the basis of their application. Short-listed candidates are called for a group discussion where a panel assess their Leadership skills, motivation and aptitude for working towards sustainable development. Candidates selected will be called for the final interview by the selection panel.

Evaluation and Graduation
Associates completing the training phase successfully would graduate to become a LEAD Fellow for life. Assessment will be based on nature of participation during the LEAD training, quality of assignments undertaken during training and the submission of LEAD Associate Project.


How To Apply: http://www.lead-awa.org/how-apply

Tuition

Details of tuition fees for the National, Sub-Regional, and Regional Training, will be provided on application. Successful candidates will also be responsible for travels, subsistence, lodging and other overhead expenses during the training.

Collection Of Application Forms

Prospective applicants should collect application forms from :
FEDEN/LEAD-Anglophone West Africa,
8, Thorburn Avenue, Yaba,
P.O. Box 664,
Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

For further information/enquiry:

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The Learning Process: http://www.lead-awa.org/learning-process