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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
This year’s International Women’s Day, UN Women, and UNEP are keen to ensure that the voices of young women and men entrepreneurs working in the green economy in Africa are heard, as we reflect on the theme of “Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow”. Simultaneously
Published: 24 Feb 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 28 Feb 2022
CyberGirls is a 1-year fellowship that equips girls with globally sought-after cybersecurity skills, helping them to seize work opportunities within Africa and across the world. This initiative aims at combating poverty, cybercrime, cybersecurity skills shortage, unemployment and gender disparity
Published: 22 Feb 2022 Type: Fellowship Deadline: Not Specified
Game-changing female entrepreneurs of Sub-Saharan Africa – is your innovation driving positive change by bringing better health and nutrition to everyone? Harvest a healthier future by applying for the Bayer Foundation Women Empowerment Award 2022. Lace up your gloves, Get in the Ring and grab
Published: 11 Feb 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 18 Mar 2022
Founded in 1998, the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa Fellowships aims to promote and encourage young African women in science. Its programs reward established women scientists whose outstanding achievements have contributed to the advancement of scientific knowled
Published: 04 Feb 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 25 Mar 2022
Thirty-five women will be recruited to begin a blended three-month programme titled, Women Agripreneurs Programme sponsored by the Embassy of France, which will be divided into three thematic areas which will run over two weeks each month. The thematic areas will cover self and leadership developmen
Published: 01 Feb 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 28 Feb 2022
The business accelerator program empowers female entrepreneurs in Africa with a vision to transform and scale their businesses for impact. Capital Solutions in partnership with Mkaziprenuer is in search for the next 50 women who are ready to be part of a women business network, be engaged in learnin
Published: 27 Jan 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
The Cyber Resilience Digital Access Programme is an online, self-paced and interactive course. The programme aims to upskill and build cyber resilience for women entrepreneurs based in South Africa and their businesses, that have a digital presence. The impact of this programme involves tr
Published: 21 Jan 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 30 Jan 2022
The Phenomenal Woman Scholarship is more than a scholarship. It is a sisterhood and a safe place for those to discuss challenges they may have during their college journey. Unfourtanelty everyone does not have a strong support system that can uplift them when they are down, or have someone that call
Published: 20 Jan 2022 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
She Entrepreneurs is a recognised leadership programme for young emerging women social entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) and Sweden. Intended for women who have already started to build a social business, She Entrepreneurs offers participants a chance to
Published: 12 Jan 2022 Type: Masters Deadline: 03 Feb 2022
WIN works with media companies and their high potential female employees to overcome the gender gap in management and senior management positions. The programme seeks to equip women media professionals in middle and senior management positions with the right skills, knowledge and attitudes to
Published: 23 Dec 2021 Type: Training Deadline: 14 Jan 2022
Flourish Africa is the women empowerment movement founded by Mrs Folorunso Alakija to serve as a catalyst for female empowerment and development. Borne out of her passion to see women become truly fulfilled and empowered, the Flourish Africa movement is designed to create a platform for both female
Published: 22 Dec 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: Not Specified
The Enterprise Challenge is designed to empower female-led businesses financially and through grants and continuous mentorship. Participants get to pitch their business to a group of judges and get the chance to win grants and possibly get investments. Participating in the Enterprise Challenge provi
Published: 20 Dec 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 07 Jan 2022
Africa Tech Vision, an entrepreneurial and mentorship initiative to encourage the growth of female-founded startups, is now accepting applications. The program was created to be a true founder-centric program, with the success of the program being determined by the growth of the founders. W
Published: 08 Dec 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 10 Dec 2021
The Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, BIGSAS, invites outstanding female African scholars based on the continent to join an international community of early career researchers working in the field of African Studies. BIGSAS provides a centre for creative and innovative
Published: 07 Dec 2021 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 30 Jan 2022
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The Amujae Initiative is the EJS Center’s flagship program. The program inspires and prepares women to unapologetically take up roles and excel in the highest echelons of public leadership, and to bring other women along. Each year, the EJS Center selects a cohort of African women
Published: 03 Dec 2021 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 23 Jan 2022
Within the framework of “Female Shift”, the Business Scouts for Development (BSfD) programme aims to create digital offers for African and German women entrepreneurs and set up a mutual mentoring programme. Join the mentoring programme by sending in the mentoring questionnaire
Published: 30 Nov 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 15 Jan 2022
Here comes an opportunity for women entrepreneurs to apply for the Standard Chartered Women in Tech Incubation programme which will help them leverage on digital technology to drive innovation in their businesses. The programme seeks to recruit the best entrepreneurial minds o
Published: 25 Nov 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Zambia Deadline: 06 Jan 2022
The U.S. Embassy Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) launched the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs(AWE), an initiative supporting women entrepreneurs around the world. The Academy, in support of the White House-led Women’s Global Development and
Published: 22 Nov 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Uganda Deadline: 17 Dec 2021
The Africa Women Journalism Project, an initiative supported by the International Centre for Journalists in partnership with the Ford Foundation West Africa, has opened a call for journalists in Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal to increase the capacity of women journalists to understand the complexity of
Published: 05 Nov 2021 Type: Training Deadline: 05 Nov 2021
Female Genital Mutilation is a form of gender inequality, violation of women and girls rights and it is internationally recognized as a violation of human rights. Despite concerted efforts to curb it, the practice continues among many ethnic groups, especially in Africa, as it is based on myths and
Published: 01 Nov 2021 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 02 Nov 2021