Deadline: 26-Nov-2023
Rise Up is inviting a group of local civil society leaders from Nigeria to participate in the Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator training program to advance gender equity and justice in 2024.
Rise Up empowers leaders to expand their impact by providing the training, funding, and resources they need to strengthen their organizations, lead change in their communities, and advance state, national and local-level impact by improving programs and funding for girls and women. Through a competitive selection process, Rise Up will select 25 civil society leaders in Nigeria to participate in an intensive Advocacy and Leadership Accelerator, enabling them to achieve policy wins to improve women and girls’ access to education, health, and economic opportunities across Abuja FCT, Nasarawa, and Kaduna States.
Strategies
- Rise Up partners with women, girls, and allies to expand their impact by providing the training, funding, and resources they need to achieve large-scale change at local and national levels. Rise Up Leaders go on to train fellow community members and apply their new knowledge to launch their own strategies to advance gender equity and justice and improve the lives of women, girls, and all people in their communities.
- Strengthen Leaders: Following a rigorous selection process, Rise Up Leaders will participate in a week-long Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator training between March 3-9, 2024. During this intensive training, participants learn how to strengthen the following skills: leadership, team building, resilience, goalsetting, strategic planning, messaging, proposal and budget development, political mapping, policy change, and more to improve the lives of women, girls, and gender-nonconforming people in their communities by expanding access to education, health, and economic opportunity.
- Invest in Local Solutions: Following the Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator, Rise Up Leaders can apply for competitive grant funding to launch their advocacy strategies to advance health, education, and economic opportunity in Nigeria. They encourage projects focusing on economic opportunities, such as advocating for financial inclusion for women and girls through access to credit, job and leadership training, land rights and ownership, and inheritance rights.
- Build Movements with Women, Girls, and Allies: Rise Up supports leaders to build relationships with peers, funders, decisionmakers, and partner organizations. Expanding their networks with partners and funders is essential for Rise Up Leaders’ ability to grow and create change – and is integral for the movement they are building together. Rise Up also provides access to speaking opportunities, conferences, and ongoing coaching to amplify leaders’ voices.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible candidates must meet the following selection criteria:
- Civil Society leaders between the ages of 18-60 years old.
- Currently working in Abuja FCT, Nasarawa, or Kaduna States, Nigeria.
- Have a personal interest and current commitment to promoting gender equity broadly in the three priority areas of health, education, and economic opportunity for girls and women. For this cohort, Rise Up has a particular interest in leaders focusing on economic opportunities such as advocating for financial inclusion for women and girls through access to credit, job training and leadership, land rights/ownership, inheritance rights, and more.
- Represents or works closely with marginalized groups from socially or economically marginalized communities, women and girls with disabilities, ethnic and/or religious minorities and other historically disadvantaged populations.
- Ability to participate in an in-person workshop from March 3-9, 2024 with some virtual sessions pre and post workshop. Rise Up will cover all costs related to program participation, including transportation, lodging, food, materials, and internet costs.
- Currently work at a non-profit organization, civil society organization, media or government organization at a level of coordination or management and have some level of decision- making power.
- Have the support of the leadership of your organization to participate in the Advocacy and Leadership Accelerator.
- To be eligible for a grant, Rise Up requires organizations to be legally registered in country and set up to receive international funds. Entities that are not registered can be sponsored by another financial entity or fiscal sponsor. Note: Government organizations are not eligible to receive grants through this program.
- Proficient in oral and written English.
For more information, visit Rise Up.