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Below is a list of available scholarships for African female students 2026-2027 to study abroad or in Africa. Apply now
MTN Y’ellopreneur is an initiative of the MTN Foundation designed to provide capacity-building and funding opportunities to qualified Nigerian female entrepreneurs, in collaboration with the Bank of Industry. The Foundation is committed to bridging female entrepreneurial skills gap, through
Published: 27 Jun 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 08 Jul 2022
With the support of the Department of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands, the Women for Africa Foundation is launching, for the second year, an online scholarship program with the aim of offering new learning opportunities to African women and, especially, to S
Published: 24 Jun 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 03 Jul 2022
At ABC Wildlife, we believe diversity is critical in every scientific field from biology to chemical engineering. While women represent 48 percent of the American workforce, they make up only 13 percent of engineering professionals and a mere 7.2 percent in the field of mechanical engineering. Ov
Published: 21 Jun 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 01 Jul 2022
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) is hosting the 2022 cohort of its flagship AWIEF Growth Accelerator, sponsored by Nedbank. The AWIEF Growth Accelerator is designed to support the unique needs of early-stage and high growth-oriented women-led ventures with business m
Published: 20 Jun 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 04 Jul 2022
Safe Sisters is a fellowship program for women human rights defenders, journalists or media workers that builds capacity to understand and respond to the digital safety challenges that they face in their work and daily life. This unique opportunity brings together human rights?defender
Published: 14 Jun 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 17 Jun 2022
In partnership with Nedbank, the AWIEF Growth Accelerator is designed to support the unique needs of early-stage and high growth-oriented women-led ventures with business modelling, growth strategy training, corporate advisory, mentorship, networks, and access to strategic partnerships. The accel
Published: 14 Jun 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 04 Jul 2022
Get Girls Going (GGG) empowers Black teen girls to create social enterprises that solve problems in the world, and in doing so equips them to be leaders that challenge racial and gender inequities that prevent them from success. Get Girls Going runs a 6 week summer incubator for Black high scho
Published: 10 Jun 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: Not Specified
Achieving gender equality and empowerment for women in aquaculture is something our team is passionate about. That’s why we developed the first-of-its-kind, international scholarship and fully immersive learn/work experience focused on eliminating boundaries, and helping women build their care
Published: 09 Jun 2022 Type: Postgraduate Study in: Norway Deadline: 01 Jul 2022
Ishango.ai in collaboration with DataQuest are providing aspiring African female data scientists with a time-limited scholarship to improve their Data Science knowledge and experience by taking courses on the DataQuest platform. Dataquest will provide four hundred scholarships to Ishango.ai to su
Published: 08 Jun 2022 Type: Training Deadline: Not Specified
Media Defence is calling for applications from women lawyers based in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda to participate in a forthcoming litigation surgery on the right to freedom of expression and digital rights, with particular focus on online violence against journalists.
Published: 31 May 2022 Type: Training Deadline: 27 Jun 2022
The Absa SHE STARS Program supports female entrepreneurs from various sectors in Kenya to overcome some of the most prevalent challenges of today’s women in the business world.
Published: 31 May 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Kenya Deadline: 31 May 2022
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The Women Leadership Academy (WLA), an initiative of the Aga Khan University, aims to enhance women’s leadership and decision-making capacity within civil society. The programme is funded by Global Affairs Canada and Aga Khan Foundation Canada as part of the Foundations for Health and Empow
Published: 26 May 2022 Type: Training Study in: Pakistan Deadline: 27 May 2022
Over the course of 18 months, Yunus Environment Hub (YEH) will support 1,500 women-led micro and small enterprises within the ABSA Bank clientele to build more resilient, sustainable, and competitive businesses in response to disrupted livelihoods, climate change, biodiversity loss and a resource de
Published: 25 May 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Kenya Deadline: 31 May 2022
The aim of the grants is to promote female researchers at all stages of their careers. Support is given to creative scientific ideas that fit the content of the CRC in the broadest sense and are not covered yet. Hereby, applications from all connected sciences are welcome. The grants are design
Published: 23 May 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 31 Jul 2022
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The MMEG mission is to assist women from developing countries who are pursuing their education with the aim of improving the lives of women and children in their countries. We are one of the few organizations who provide financial assistance to such women. In past years, grants of up to US$15,0
Published: 17 May 2022 Type: Masters Study in: South Africa Deadline: 14 Sep 2022
The new Ellevate Programme for women-focused businesses. Designed for businesses owned by women, managed by women, businesses with a high percentage of female board members or employees and companies manufacturing products for women. The new Ellevate Programme provides services and tools to help
Published: 13 May 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: Not Specified
Nominations are now open for the 2022 edition of the prestigious AWIEF Awards, which recognise, honour and celebrate women entrepreneurs and business owners in Africa and across various industry sectors for their achievements and contribution to the continent’s inclusive economic growth and so
Published: 10 May 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 03 Jun 2022
The release of the writer and broadcaster Margaret Busby’s landmark new anthology, New Daughters of Africa, published by Myriad, will be celebrated by offering an award worth £20,000 for black, female students ordinarily resident in Africa to study at SOAS University of London. N
Published: 29 Apr 2022 Type: College School Study in: United Kingdom Deadline: 02 May 2022
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In 2022, Women In Africa and The Coca-Cola Foundation join forces to support 20,000 African women entrepreneurs over the next three years through the “JAMII Femmes” initiative. “We chose the name JAMII, a Swahili word meaning com
Published: 20 Apr 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: Not Specified
To date, 630 scholarships have been awarded to African women from 42 different countries through the Learn Africa program. This has been possible thanks to the commitment and dedication of a wide network of (more than) 50 partners, including universities, educ
Published: 15 Apr 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 26 Apr 2022