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Below is a list of available scholarships for African female students 2025-2026 to study abroad or in Africa. Apply now
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The Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at the Wits Business School (University of the Witwatersrand), with the support of the Mastercard Foundation invites applications for Doctoral Fellowship on the Non-Profit Sector and its Contribution to African Economies proj
Published: 30 Aug 2024 Type: PhD Value: $30,000 Deadline: 16 Sep 2024
AgroHack Challenge is seeking innovative ideas across the agriculture industry’s value chain. These ideas will be accelerated to create new opportunities for many young Nigerians. Also, the key objective of the AgroHack Challenge is to harness innovative solutions that will enhance rapid growt
Published: 28 Aug 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 07 Oct 2024
We believe in addressing inequality in education. In recognition of the extraordinary potential of women in the sciences, we created the MPOWER Women in STEM Scholarship. You don’t need to be an MPOWER borrower to apply! What are you waiting for? In keeping with MPOWER’s commitment to
Published: 28 Aug 2024 Type: Undergraduate Value: US$6,000 Deadline: 31 Dec 2024
The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering’s (ATSE) Elevate: Boosting Women in STEM will award up to 500 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships over six years to women in STEM. The Elevate Program aims to address gender inequities in STEM through fosterin
Published: 23 Aug 2024 Type: Undergraduate Study in: Australia Deadline: 30 Aug 2024
For the first time in its 15-year history, the WAN-IFRA WIN Leadership Accelerator is open to mid-level newsroom managers (journalists and editors) from emerging, transitional, and fragile states worldwide. Journalists with 5-10 years of newsroom experience and a passion for the news industry are en
Published: 15 Aug 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 30 Aug 2024
Spanning 50 countries and over 400 participants, the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women programme identifies high-potential women entrepreneurs whose businesses show real potential to scale and provides them with ongoing support to help accelerate their growth. The EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women
Published: 12 Aug 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: Not Specified
The Women’s Leadership Programme allows senior and emerging female leaders to navigate the unique leadership challenges that deter female professionals in the workplace from occupying senior leadership positions. The programme aims to enhance their ability to make strategic choices; lead pe
Published: 05 Aug 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 12 Aug 2024
WE Africa’s purpose is to put women leaders in Africa at the heart of transforming the environmental movement through inclusive, collective leadership. WE Africa was born through our frustration that the joint crises of biodiversity loss and the climate emergency also reflect a crisis and lack
Published: 02 Aug 2024 Type: Fellowship Deadline: 16 Aug 2024
AgroHack Challenge is seeking innovative ideas across the agriculture industry's value chain. These ideas will be accelerated to create new opportunities for many young Nigerians. The key objective of the AgroHack Challenge is to harness innovative solutions that will enhance rapid growth in
Published: 02 Aug 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 07 Oct 2024
WE Africa’s purpose is to put women leaders in Africa at the heart of transforming the environmental movement through inclusive, collective leadership. WE Africa was born through our frustration that the joint crises of biodiversity loss and the climate emergency also reflect a crisis and lack
Published: 01 Jul 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 16 Aug 2024
With the vision of scaling up investment in the development of the full potential of the young people in Cameroon, their innovation capital and addressing the gender gap, the United Nations Population Fund in Cameroon, in partnership with the Ernesto Illy Foundation in Italy, is launc
Published: 27 Jun 2024 Type: Masters Study in: Italy Value: 15.000 Euro Deadline: 30 Jun 2024
Launched in 2019, the Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton program is the first women-in-business support initiative of its kind in the industry offered by Access Bank’s W Initiative. The program in its maiden edition provided a free mini-MBA certification for 50 women entrepreneurs in Nigeria as wel
Published: 26 Jun 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 09 Aug 2024
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ShowcaseHER is a zero fees program aimed to empower women business owners in Africa with requisite skills to prepare them for the export market. The program, set to commence on August 1st, 2024, is an inititaive sponsored by Afreximbank and powered by ImpactHER. The goal of S
Published: 24 Jun 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Value: $1,000 Deadline: 30 Jun 2024
Nominate yourself as a EVWA Changemaker, and gain the exclusive opportunity to be selected as one of the 30 under 30 exceptional young Africans, who lead projects that contribute to the empowerment of women farmers. Gain global visibility, expand your network, and get the chance to
Published: 21 Jun 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 30 Jun 2024
This new prize, named after TWAS Fellow Quarraisha Abdool Karim, carries a cash award of USD5,000 generously provided by Professor Abdool Karim. It is designed to honour women scientists in Low Income African countries for their achievements in Biological Sciences.
Published: 07 Jun 2024 Type: Contest Value: USD5,000 Deadline: 30 Jun 2024
GREEN-STEM scholarships will empower up to 92 young talents, students and staff to experience an intra-Africa mobility in the partner institution from short to long term: FIRST CALL IS OPEN NOW TO WOMEN FOR FULL PROGRAMS IN ONE OF THE GREEN-STEM PARTNER UNIVERSITIES SCHOLARSHIPS are only avail
Published: 07 Jun 2024 Type: Postgraduate Deadline: 01 Dec 2024
The U.S. Embassy Nairobi in partnership with Ushindi Empowerment Group, invites women entrepreneurs from Nairobi with at least 3 years’ experience seeking to scale their businesses or explore international trade to apply for the program. The objective is to provide business management training
Published: 06 Jun 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Kenya Deadline: 10 Jun 2024
The UNFPA understands thatYoung entrepreneurs with a good social enterprise idea often lack resources to kick start it and are in need of support, stimulation and capacity building. This is where the UNFPA supported EmpowerHer Innovation Challenge comes in. $2,000 to $6000 are allocated to suppor
Published: 31 May 2024 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 02 Jun 2024
