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Capacity Building Programs: African Climate Change Fellowship Program

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The African Climate Change Fellowships will offer experiential learning, education, research and training opportunities to African professionals, researchers and graduate students that will build their capabilities for advancing and applying knowledge for climate change adaptation in Africa. Participating Fellows will receive small grants to undertake Policy Fellowships, Doctoral Research Fellowships, Post-Doctoral Fellowships and Teaching Fellowships. The Fellowship grants will enable Fellows to visit other institutions for 2 to 12 months.  The program is intended to benefit and create stronger linkages between the host and home institutions of participating Fellows. Home institutions must be located in Africa, while host institutions may be located in or outside of Africa, with preference given first to African institutions and secondly to institutions outside of Africa that demonstrate a commitment to enabling Fellows to pursue careers in Africa.

 
An assessment of needs and opportunities for climate change fellowships has been completed through a survey that identified organizations that are interested in participating as host or home institutions, their capacity needs that are relevant to climate change adaptation, and the types of Fellowship activities that would benefit them.  Over 250 organizations from 43 countries in and outside Africa responded to the survey.

 
A workshop was hosted by AAS from 10^th - 13^th  March 2008 in Dar es Salaam to identify priority capacity needs to advance climate change adaptation policy, planning and implementation; the types of Fellowship opportunities that would help to build the needed capacity; institutions with the capabilities and interests to host Fellows; and institutions to target for recruitment of applicants for Fellowships. Results of the survey provided a key input to the workshop.

 
Two open calls for Fellowship applications are planned, the first in Spring 2008. Applicants will be asked to submit a description of a proposed project or activity with letters of support from home and host institutions. Applicants selected for Fellowship awards will receive a small grant to cover costs of travel, accommodation, subsistence and other costs needed to undertake their proposed project. Grant sizes will range from $8000 to $35,000 depending on the type and duration of a Fellowship and estimated reasonable costs. Four types of Fellowships will be offered: Policy Fellowships, Doctoral Research Fellowships, Post-Doctoral Fellowships and Teaching Fellowships.