Nasser Fellowship for African Leadership is witnessing a strong demand from young African countries

May 11, 2019 - 04:28
Nasser Fellowship for African Leadership is witnessing a strong demand from young African countries

Nasser Fellowship for Transformational Leadership, which is offered by the Ministry of Youth and Sports (Central Administration of Parliament and Civic Education - African Youth Office), witnessed a strong demand from the youth of the African continent during the first days of registration; the number of applicants reached 254 young leaders from 41 African countries with the following percentages: Algeria (1.6%) - Angola (1.6%) - Benin (0.8%) - Botswana (0.8%) - Burundi (1.6%) - Cabo Verde (0.4%)  )- Cameroon (1.6%)- Chad (2.8%)- Democratic Republic of the Congo (1.2%)- Republic of the Congo (0.8%)- Djibouti (0.4%)- Eritrea (0.4%)- Eswatini (0.4%)- Ethiopia (3.1  %)- Gambia (2%)- Ghana (3.5%)- Guinea (0.8%)- Kenya (3.2%)- Liberia (4.3%)- Libya (1.6%)- Madagascar (0.4%)- Malawi (6.7%)  - Mali (1.6%) - Mauritius (0.4%) - Morocco (0.4%) - Mozambique (0.8%) - Namibia (0.4%) - Nigeria (25.2%) - Rwanda (1.6%) - Sierra Leone (3.1%) - Somalia  (2.8%)- South Africa (1.2%)- South Sudan (1.2%)- Sudan (2%)- Tanzania (2.8%)- Togo (0.4%)- Tunisia (2%)- Uganda (3.1%)- Zambia  (3.5%) - Zimbabwe (2%).

Registration and receipt of applications will continue by filling in the participation form, through the following link: (https://forms.gle/G8BcwbUKKaGnHXeZ8), no later than May 15, provided that the accepted ones will be contacted starting from May 13 this year as a first stage.

The fellowship, which will be launched during the period from 8 to 22 June at the Civic Education Center in Al-gezira, targets 100 young executive leaders from member states of the African Union, decision makers in the government sector, executive leaders in the private sector, youth of Civil Society, heads of National Youth Councils, and universities teaching staff, researchers in Strategic and Intellectual Research Centers, members of professional syndicates, media professionals and journalists.

The fellowship one of the is mechanisms for implementing the (1Million by 2021) initiative to qualify one million African youth by 2021, which was recently launched by the Commission for Science, Technology and Human Resources of the African Union in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

The fellowship aims to transfer the ancient Egyptian experience in building national institutions, and to create a new generation of transformational young African leaders with a vision in line with the directions of Egypt’s presidency of the African Union, which is believed to serve the goals of African unity through integration, in addition to creating a gathering of the most influential young African leaders on the level of the continent.  With training, necessary skills and strategic visions.

This comes within the framework of the keenness of the Ministry of Youth and Sports - headed by Dr. Ashraf Sobhi - to play its role entrusted with strengthening the role of African youth by providing all forms of support, rehabilitation and training, in addition to empowering them in leadership positions and benefiting from their abilities and ideas, in implementation of what the President of the Republic announced during the activities of the World Youth Forum, which witnessed an honorable representation of the youth of African countries in implementation of the President’s decision to make 2019 the year of education.

Nasser is also the first (African-African) Fellowship targeting young African executive leaders with diverse disciplines within their societies, and it is one of the mechanisms of critical enablers for African transformation approved in the text of Africa Agenda 2063; this is to consolidate and enhance African values ​​through self-reliance, solidarity, hard work, and social prosperity, and to build on African successes, experiences and best practices to formulate the African model for transformation and development.  The grant is also one of the mechanisms of "harnessing the demographic dividend through investment in youth", in conjunction with Egypt's assumption of the presidency of the African Union in 2019.