Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme 2025 for East Africans at Gulu University

Applications are now open for the Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme 2025 for East Africans at Gulu University. The programme seeks to strengthen universities and TVET institutions to better serve communities by skilling and empowering Africa’s young people and their institutions to drive inclusive, equitable and climate resilient transformation of agriculture and agrifood systems. The TAGDev 2.0 programme will support young African students that are economically disadvantaged but academically competent to access university education. The scholarship is open to both female and male applicants. However, females, refugees, internally displaced persons, and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.

• Table of Content
• About MasterCard Foundation
• Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme
• Aim and Benefits of Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme
• Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme Courses
• Requirements for Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About MasterCard Foundation

The Mastercard Foundation seeks a world where everyone has the opportunity to learn and prosper. All people, no matter where their starting point in life, should have an equal chance to succeed. We believe that with access to education, financial services, and skills training, people can have that chance. Our focus is helping economically disadvantaged young people in Africa to find opportunities to move themselves, their families, and their communities out of poverty to a better life.... read more... continue reading

Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme

Aim and Benefits of Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme

This is a full board comprehensive scholarship that covers: tuition fees, research costs, workshop and conference costs, living expenses including stipend and hostel, laptop, internship attachment, community engagement and field attachment, and entrepreneurship training.
Consequently, considering the level of investment, successful applicants will be required to become high achievers, highly engaging and focused students/ graduates and change makers contributing to outreach services in the communities, capable of creating enterprises that create jobs for themselves and others and have personal satisfaction and dynamism.

Support to Refugees, Displaced Persons (RDPs) and Persons With Disabilities (PWDs).
In addition to other scholars’ benefits, RDPs and PWDs will receive the following support:
1 . RDPs will be supported with travel documents.
2. PWDs will receive assistive devices to support learning and movement during the course of studies.

Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme Courses

• Agri-Enterprises Development
• Agriculture
• Agronomy
• Business Administration
• Business Education
• Food Bioscience and Agribusiness
• Food Security and Community Nutrition

Requirements for Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme Qualification

This call for Scholarships for the 2025/2026 academic year is opened to applicants interested in and eligible to study Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Bachelor of Science in Biosystems Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Food Bioscience and Agribusiness, Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Education, Master of Science in Environmental Science and Natural Resources Management, Master of Science in Agri-Enterprises Development, Master of Science in Food Security and Community Nutrition, and Master of Science in Agronomy at Gulu University, Uganda.

Eligibility Requirements

• Scholarships are open to candidates in Uganda from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Candidates from conflict and post-conflict areas of Africa residing in Uganda are also encouraged to apply.
• The applicant has to be in position to qualify for admission into undergraduate and/or postgraduate Programmes at Gulu University. All applicants should read and thoroughly understand the admission criteria for the relevant Programmes at Gulu University.
• Students already having a scholarship of any kind are not eligible to benefit from this scholarship opportunity. Anyone with a double scholarship if found will automatically be discontinued.
• Former beneficiaries of TAGDev Scholarships are not eligible to apply.

Interview date, Process and Venue for Mastercard Foundation TAGDev 2.0 Scholarship Programme

Selection criteria

• Be a national of Uganda and East African countries implementing the common East Africa Higher Education Protocol (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan).
• Be economically disadvantaged, from marginalized communities, and/or coming from conflict and post conflict areas in Uganda.
• Be less than 30 years for undergraduate and less than 35 years for masters studies at the time of this call.
• Should have completed secondary school and/ or diploma for a Bachelor’s degree application not more than two years from the time of this call. For refugees and internally displaced persons, should have completed their studies at the previous level at most four years before.
• The applicant should meet admission criteria to the eligible Programmes in Gulu University.
• Demonstrate interest in agriculture, agribusiness and entrepreneurship
• Demonstrate leadership qualities
• Have commitment to working in agriculture and agricultural value chains
• Have a strong commitment to community transformation
• Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For additional information about the scholarship at Gulu University Please contact:
i. Prof. Duncan Ongeng;
TAGDev 2.0 Programme Coordinator
Tel: +256 782673491
Email: [email protected]

Application Procedure

The procedure for submitting the TAGDev 2.0 scholarship application through the RUFORUM Information Management System (RIMS) is as follows:
i. Access the RIMS Web Portal through; https://rims2.ruforum.org/
ii. Create your account by clicking on Register Here
iii. An email will be sent to your valid email address to activate your account. Please check in the Spam or Junk for message incase activation mail is not reflected in your inbox.
iv. Login using your email and password you used for creating.
v. After successful login, the Applicant Dashboard will appear with different options.
vi. Go to Calls – > Scholarship Calls
vii. Select the Call ID: RU/2025GuluUniv./ TAGDEV2.0
viii. Click Apply to start filling the Application Form.
ix. Remember to save while filling the form by “Clicking Save Draft”
x. Download, print and submit it with your application form for admission to the University.
xi. Submit the document in hard copy or simply attach it on the university online portal.

For more details, visit Gulu University scholarship website.