UNFPA Youth Leaders Fellowship Program (7th Cohort) – Ghana

The Youth Leaders (YoLe) Fellowship programme is one of UNFPA Ghana’s flagship programmes which aligns with the organisation’s mandate of ensuring that every young person’s potential is fulfilled. In line with the United Nations Youth Strategy which calls on all UN agencies 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.

The Youth Leaders (YoLe) Fellowship identifies and attracts young, innovative change-makers who are graduates of Ghanaian tertiary institutions and who positively impact their communities. These identified change-makers are then taken through a year of learning and skills-building after which they exit the fellowship and take up various academic, entrepreneurial and professional ventures. Through mentorship, hands-on experience, and leadership development, this fellowship will equip them with the tools to drive meaningful change in their community and beyond.

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.

Program Specifications

• During the 12-month fellowship, fellows are expected to provide insight and contribute ideas and efforts to support the Country Office’s efforts, to become even more responsive to youth-related issues within Ghana. As such, these selected young people work from the UNFPA Ghana Country Office’s Orange Loft, a specially designed, youth-friendly space that provides the needed flexibility for young people to work and collaborate, while supporting them to leverage existing modern technologies to innovate solutions that will improve reproductive health outcomes among other things.

Eligibility Criteria

• The applicant must be:
  • Aged between 18 – 30 years
  • A graduate of a tertiary institution in Ghana
  • Able to commit to the Fellowship’s duration (one year)
  • Proactive and possess strong interpersonal skills
  • Proficient in the English Language for all communication purposes
  • Passionate about sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues and demonstrate a desire to make a difference in their community: specifically, demonstrate interest and dedication to development issues established through either volunteer experience, work experience, affiliations with a youth network or NGO, in areas of UNFPA’s mandate.

For more information, visit UNFPA.