Apply UNFPA Youth-Leaders (YoLe) Fellowship Cohort7 2025 | The YoLe Fellowship is a one-year programme that aims to empower young, innovative change-makers who have recently graduated from tertiary institutions in Ghana and positively impacting their communities.
The programme provides training and mentorship on Leadership, Sustainable Development, Peace, Human Rights, and contemporary and emerging issues. Since its inception in 2018, the YoLe Fellowship Programme has trained and mentored several young people in six cohorts, addressing gaps in youth leadership and development while contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The YoLe Fellowship is a year-long programme designed to empower Fellows to be ICPD ambassadors for UNFPA’s mandates.
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It builds the capacity of young people for the job market including the UN system by providing opportunities for professional and career development as well as training in driving health-innovation. Fellows also have access to one-on-one high-level mentorship from high achieving personalities within different sectors.
Application Requirements
- The Fellowship Programme is targeted at graduates from Ghanaian Tertiary Institutions and resident in Ghana during the Fellowship period. Applicants must be 18-30 years old at the time of application.
- Applicants must be proficient in English language and has the ability to communicate clearly.
- The Fellowship welcomes passionate individuals who aspire to lead and drive change in their communities and organizations.
- Young change makers working with youth-led organizations, CSOs and NGOs are highly preferred.
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Young women and persons living with physical disability are strongly encouraged to apply
SPACE TO INCUBATE
To help advance the objectives of the Fellowship, an ultra-modern collaborative space, The Orange Loft, was built and tailored to suit the needs of the Fellows providing them the space for online and in-person training sessions, providing Fellows a creative space to innovate, an online station to discuss issues as well as a recreation space to facilitate team bonding through play.
MENTORSHIP
The Fellowship has in place a mentorship component that is designed to facilitate professional knowledge transfer and exposure for the Fellows. Fellows are attached to high level professionals to build their capacities and provide guidance on their career paths.
POLICY AND STRATEGY ALIGNMENT
The programme is designed in line with UNFPA’s mandate to ensure that ‘every young person’s potential is fulfilled’, and the United Nations’ Youth Strategy (2030) to ‘increase impact and expand global, regional and country-level action to address the needs, build the agency, and advance the rights of young people in all their diversity’.
TRAINING/CAPACITY BUILDING
Fellows undertake professionally coordinated training sessions covering areas such as Research, Reporting, Proposal Development and Concept Note Writing, social media and Networking, Business Model Canvas Development, Data Visualization and Presentation, Human-Centred Design and Tech Innovations in the COVID-19 era, Public Speaking, Conferencing and Logistics Planning, Gender Equity in Innovation. Soft Skills training such as Data-Driven Decision Making, Emotional-intelligence, Web and app development, Innovation, Business Modeling, and Digital productivity tools. The Fellowship provides participants with training on the future of work and entrepreneurship, and employability skills.
DEPLOYMENT TO UNITS AND INTERNSHIP
Fellows are assigned to units within the Country Office to gain hands-on experience with the work of UNFPA. In addition, Fellows undertake a mandatory one-month internship with other UN agencies, CSOs/NGOs, public and private institutions.
Program Duration
- The duration of the programme is one year and starts from October1, 2025 to September 30, 2026.
Apply: UNFPA Youth-Leaders (YoLe) Fellowship Cohort7 2025
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