Limitless Opportunities for African Youth: TEF Grants, Seed Grants, and other Funding Programs

[January 2024]

Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Grant Programme (Africa)
Deadline: 1 March 2024

Submissions are now open for the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Grant Programme. The objective is to empower women and men across the continent, catalysing economic growth, driving poverty eradication and ensuring job creation.
They believe the private sector’s role is critical for Africa’s development and that the private sector must create both social and economic wealth…[more]

Youth Hub Seed Grant Programme
Deadline: 31-Jan-24

The International AIDS Society (IAS) is inviting you to submit a proposal requesting up to USD 10,000 to implement a six-month innovation project (from March to August 2024) that addresses a need for young people living with and affected by HIV.

As part of the Youth Hub Seed Grant Programme, they will support selected Young Leaders with a tailored capacity-building curriculum through a series of workshops on monitoring and evaluation, reporting and communications delivered through the Youth Hub…[more]

Professional Fellows Program – Advancing Young Women in Agribusiness
Deadline: 16-Feb-24

Apply for the Advancing Young Women Professional Fellows Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is administered by Michigan State University (US), University of Rwanda (Rwanda), University of Pretoria (South Africa), University of Zambia (Zambia) and Chinhoyi University of Technology (Zimbabwe).

The U.S. program will include a four-week professional internship with Michigan organizations focused on agriculture, innovation, agro-entrepreneurship, and women’s empowerment coupled with additional seminars and training with professionals from Michigan State University and throughout the state of Michigan…[more]

Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge – Africa
Deadline: 1 March 2024

Submissions are now open for the Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge.
This is an exclusive platform being provided to innovative African youth in travel and tourism looking for funding, partnership and mentorship opportunities to present their projects to the global market place in order to find the required support for their programmes…[more]

Charles R. Wall Young African Policy Fellows Cohort 2024
Deadline: 3 February 2024

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is inviting applications for the Charles R. Wall Young African Policy Fellows Cohort to train young professionals to be policy negotiators on International Environmental Governance, especially on the Convention on Biological Diversity.

They are looking forward to learning about you, your passion for international environmental governance and your leadership footprints…[more]

Call for Applications: CLEA Lens-Lievin’s Residency-Mission for Journalists
Deadline: 28 January 2024

As part of the Local Artistic Education Contract (CLEA), the agglomeration community of Lens-Liévin and its partners are launching a call for applications aimed at journalists with a view to a residency-mission for the purposes of education in media, information and freedom of expression.

The mission-residency which is the subject of this call for applications will be awarded to a journalist keen to encourage residents, particularly young people, to have a better perception of the issues linked to information and freedom of expression within their structures. ..[more]