Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) Fellowship 2024

The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) is now accepting applications for its 2024 Fellowship program, a unique initiative that combines leadership development with a platform for intergenerational dialogue and exchange. This fellowship brings together emerging leaders from the global South and North to address shared challenges, particularly climate change, and other pressing global issues.

By empowering a cohort of dynamic leaders, the program aims to foster collaboration and innovation, bridging the gap between the global North and South and driving meaningful solutions to the climate crisis.

The AFC Fellowship is a collaboration between Common Purpose and Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). The AFC Fellowship builds on the success of the pilot programme which ran in 2023 with 50 participants from around the world.

Benefits

Participants will:

• Enhance their ability to Lead Beyond Authority equipping them to work across boundaries; a pre-requisite to solving any complex problem.
• Grow new networks by connecting with diverse participants, contributors and speakers from the global North and South who they would otherwise never meet.
• Stretch their analytical and creative skills by exposing them to a new approach to innovation.
• Develop their influencing skills by putting them in front of senior decision-makers to present their findings.
• Generate new ideas and approaches to meet this hugely important challenge.

Eligibility

Successful applicants will be from different sectors, backgrounds, countries, and communities across Africa, the wider global South, and the global North.

They will be:

• Emerging leaders (typically with over 5 years professional experience).
• Highly motivated individuals who show commitment to bringing about positive change, and who can demonstrate their leadership potentials and/or capability.
• Interested in climate issues and in addressing the imbalance between the global North and South.

Application

Programme Format: Online – the sessions take place live on Zoom. Resources and learning materials are provided via the online platform which is available 24/7.