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Intergenerational Fellowship on Women, Peace and Security in South Central Europe

Deadline: 30-Apr-21

Vital Voices Global Partnership invites you to apply for the Intergenerational Fellowship on Women, Peace and Security in South Central Europe (“Peace Fellowship”).

The Fellowship is a year-long program that seeks to engage twenty (20) established and emerging women leaders from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Croatia (five from each country) to advance intergenerational efforts to prevent and respond to gender-based violence (“GBV”) to advance the Women, Peace, and Security (“WPS”) movement in the region.

The Peace Fellowship will include tailored trainings, peer-to-peer learning and intergenerational mentorship, networking, and grant opportunities for Peace Fellows.

It will include both virtual and in-person activities depending on the evolving COVID-19 situation and traveling guidelines provided by the authorities of participants’ respective countries.

The working languages of the Peace Fellowship will be Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Albanian. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided. The Peace Fellowship is a program funded by the United States State Department.

In addition to educational and training activities, the Peace Fellowship will also serve as a platform for the fellows to promote their work on GBV and WPS and build a more robust network through cooperative, cross-sectoral collaboration, and joint advocacy efforts.

The fellows will have access to individual and collaborative grants to apply Peace Fellowship themes to country-specific and regional projects intended to enhance the breadth and depth of GBV prevention, access to justice, and WPS implementation.

To this end, the Peace Fellowship will foster awareness, capacity-building, inter-ethnic dialogue, and exchange around central WPS themes, with a specific focus on GBV and WSGBV.

It will promote transgenerational and interethnic cooperation towards more effective GBV and WSGBV advocacy.

To enable Fellows to realize their full leadership potential and accelerate positive change in their respective communities, the Peace Fellowship will invest in mentoring and strengthening the capacity of each Peace Fellow, per their identified needs.

Note- Peace Fellowship is an unpaid fellowship. However, if in-person activities take place, Vital Voices will pay for all costs related to these meetings (food, insurance, travel, and accommodation).

Eligibility Criteria

Please take note of the following eligibility criteria and commitment requirements for this Fellowship before proceeding:

  • Is a woman leader.
  • Is from and working in at least one of the following countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, or Serbia.
  • Demonstrates interest, experience, and commitment to preventing and addressing GBV, and improving access to justice for survivors of GBV and WSGBV.
  • Demonstrates experience and/or interest in implementation of WPS locally, nationally, and/or regionally.
  • Demonstrates leadership potential and an interest in peer-to-peer learning and intergenerational mentorship.
  • They should be leaders or be actively engaged in organizations where they have demonstrated an interest in passing on new skills and contacts/networking with other women and girls in their communities.
  • Voluntary: Based on the tremendous success of incorporating GBV/WSGBV survivor advocates in past programs and in the interest of promoting survivor-informed discussions, Vital Voices is especially interested in including survivor advocates that meet the above criteria and are interested in participating.
  • Information about this identification will not be shared beyond those who review the application unless consent is expressly given.
  • In addition to the stated criteria above, Vital Voices welcomes all forms of diversity in its programming.
  • Candidates across diverse sectors (direct service, civil society, government, academia, etc.) are encouraged to apply.
  • They also encourage the unique contributions of diverse applicants in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.

Commitment

  • The Peace Fellowship is a 12-month commitment, and will include online trainings as well as the possibility of traveling to two in-person meetings in participant’s respective countries (taking into consideration COVID-19 traveling guidelines) throughout the course of the fellowship.
  • Applicants must be able to commit to the following:
    • Complete a baseline survey that goes into more detail about your professional experience, personal and organizational goals, work-related skills, mentorship experience and community engagement.
    • Participate in all required online trainings and webinars, and complete virtual assignments for an average of eight hours per month throughout the course of the Fellowship.
    • Potentially participate in two in-person gatherings during the Fellowship.
    • Complete surveys for up to two years after participating in the Peace Fellowship.
  • Please note that accepted Fellows must commit to full participation in the entire program and are expected to be prepared and engaged with staff, trainers, and Fellows before, during and after the program.

For more information, visit http://vitalvoices.vvpeace.alchemer.com/s3/