Africa for Sustainable Development Fellowship Program seeks to equip 40 youth and women in each cohort in Africa per year starting with East Africa mainly targeting Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Kenya. Projections by the United Nations show that the world population will hit 10 billion people by 2055. Of this growth, Africa will account for 57% of growth (1.4 billion people). In particular, the population of sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double by 2050 (that constitutes a 99% increase). Almost 60% of Africa’s population is under the age of 25, making Africa the world’s youngest continent. Yet, with such comfortable numbers, the youth ought to be a critical part of the human capital and drivers of economic growth if well exploited. To achieve anything meaningful, the youth ought to be the drivers of conversations around their issues. Sadly, many a times, they are pushed to the peripheries and even left of the decision and recourse distribution processes, meaning they are further denied a seat at the table of policy-making and project implementation.

The fellowship program aims at engaging the young people in the target areas on matters of sustainable development through rolling out of a 3 months sustainable development, circular economy and leadership program

Our key focused areas are to help build a community of young African leaders who are able to build sustainable solutions to the social economic and environmental areas in Africa. Furthermore, breed a new group of leaders ready to Use African resources to build a better Africa.

The fellowship will focus on:

· Sustainable development

· Project cycle management

· Leadership

· Design Thinking

· Policy formulation and integration

· Leadership and sustainable development

· Strategies for personal growth and development

· Circular Economy

· Proposal writing and funding strategies in community development

· Conflict management 

Youth enterprise and circular economy in Africa