Singapore-ICAO Developing Countries Training Programme 2024-2025

Singapore and ICAO established the Developing Countries Training Programme (DCTP) in 2001. Sponsored by the Singapore Government and administered by the ICAO Technical Cooperation Bureau, the DCTP has been renewed for another three years (April 2022 to March 2025). It provides 330 Fellowships and 10 Scholarships to government officials from eligible developing ICAO Member States to attend specialised training programmes conducted by the Singapore Aviation Academy (SAA). To date, 220 Fellowships and 10 Scholarships have been awarded. From April 2024 to March 2025, 110 Fellowships will be available for SAA’s courses listed in table below.

• Table of Content
• About ICAO
• Singapore-ICAO Developing Countries Training Programme
• Aim and Benefits of Singapore-ICAO Developing Countries Training Programme
• Requirements for Singapore-ICAO Developing Countries Training Programme Qualification
• Documents Required for Application
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About ICAO

ICAO is funded and directed by 193 national governments to support their diplomacy and cooperation in air transport as signatory states to the Chicago Convention (1944). Its core function is to maintain an administrative and expert bureaucracy (the ICAO Secretariat) supporting these diplomatic interactions, and to research new air transport policy and standardization innovations as directed and endorsed by governments through the ICAO Assembly, or by the ICAO Council which the assembly elects. Industry and civil society groups, and other concerned regional and in... continue reading

Singapore-ICAO Developing Countries Training Programme

Aim and Benefits of Singapore-ICAO Developing Countries Training Programme

The fellowships cover course fee, hotel accommodation and daily allowance.

Requirements for Singapore-ICAO Developing Countries Training Programme Qualification

Government officials:

• Who have received endorsement/nomination by your Director-General of Civil Aviation or equivalent. Organisations should nominate only one applicant per course due to limited fellowships available.
• Whose job qualifications/work portfolios are relevant to the course applied for.

Documents Required for Application

• Nomination form endorsed by your direct reporting officer (Part 1) and the Director-General of Civil Aviation or equivalent (Part 2). A copy of the nomination form can be found here. 
• Passport-sized photograph
• Biodata page of your passport

Application Deadline

How to Apply

• Applications are open all year round. The application deadline for each course is 12 weeks before the course start date. Please refer to the application deadlines in table below for the respective courses.
• Applications can only be done online via the application links listed in the table below. Please ensure you have a valid iSAA account and if not, create an account.

Application steps

Step 1: Login / Create an iSAA1 account.

Step 2: Click on the course application link found in the table below under the “Fellowship Application Link” column.

Step 3: Confirm that the course title and date you are applying for is correct. Select Country and Organisation Type and click Apply Fellowship.

Step 4: Fill in the required fields

For more details, visit ICAO website.