AU Youth Volunteer
Program(s) Offered: Leadership/Volunteerism
Program Level: Short Courses/Training
Provider: African Union Youth Division (HRST)
Country to Study in: African countries
Scholarship Description
The African Union Youth Division runs as well as oversees the African Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AU-YVC) program. The AU-YVC, established inward 2010, is a continental evolution programme that promotes youth volunteerism inward Africa.
The AU-YVC program aims to deepen the condition of immature people every bit cardinal actors inward Africa’s evolution targets as well as goals, enhancing their participation inward policy evolution likewise every bit pattern as well as implementation of relevant interventions towards the Africa Union’s Agenda 2063, ‘The Africa nosotros want’. It brings people together to portion skills, knowledge, inventiveness as well as learning to prepare a to a greater extent than integrated, prosperous as well as peaceful Continent driven yesteryear its citizens.
Young African professionals are recruited to serve for a current of 12 months every bit AU Volunteers inward an AU Member State other than their own. The volunteering opportunities are intended to prepare professionalism as well as a sense of responsibleness amid the participants, hence enhancing their employability.
Program(s) Offered: Leadership/Volunteerism
Program Level: Short Courses/Training
Provider: African Union Youth Division (HRST)
Country to Study in: African countries
Scholarship Description
The African Union Youth Division runs as well as oversees the African Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AU-YVC) program. The AU-YVC, established inward 2010, is a continental evolution programme that promotes youth volunteerism inward Africa.
The AU-YVC program aims to deepen the condition of immature people every bit cardinal actors inward Africa’s evolution targets as well as goals, enhancing their participation inward policy evolution likewise every bit pattern as well as implementation of relevant interventions towards the Africa Union’s Agenda 2063, ‘The Africa nosotros want’. It brings people together to portion skills, knowledge, inventiveness as well as learning to prepare a to a greater extent than integrated, prosperous as well as peaceful Continent driven yesteryear its citizens.
Young African professionals are recruited to serve for a current of 12 months every bit AU Volunteers inward an AU Member State other than their own. The volunteering opportunities are intended to prepare professionalism as well as a sense of responsibleness amid the participants, hence enhancing their employability.
Eligibility
Applicants select to come across the next criteria:
- Citizen of an AU Member State living on the continent or the Diaspora;
- Aged betwixt xviii – 35 years;
- Have a post-secondary certified qualification(s) (TVET, Bachelor’s score or equivalent)
- Available inward 2018 to dedicate 12 (twelve) months for volunteer work;
- Willing to alive as well as run inward roughly other AU Member State;
- Is adept inward at to the lowest degree 1 AU working linguistic communication (Arabic, English, French, Portuguese);
- Has at to the lowest degree 1 twelvemonth verifiable volunteering sense as well as 1 twelvemonth professional person run experience.
Citizens of African countries
Participating Institutions
This programme is run yesteryear the African Union Youth Division
Fields of study
Africa’s evolution targets as well as goals; Africa's policy evolution as well as design; as well as implementation of relevant interventions to gain Africa Union’s Agenda 2063, ‘The Africa nosotros want’.
Number of awards
Not specified
Sponsorship duration
This is for 12 months. Key dates include:
- 1st August – eligibility Check;
- 14th August: Successful applicants volition hold upwards notified;
- September 2017: Pre-deployment training;
- 2018: Deployment of trained volunteers.
For the successful candidates, the African Union Commission as well as its partners volition embrace the total costs of their pre-deployment training. On deployment, African Union Youth Volunteers have the following:
- Economy provide air ticket from dwelling town to house of deployment
- A pocket-size monthly stipend
- Health insurance cover
- Separation allowance upon successful completion of twelve months service
Interested candidates are invited to employ online exclusively here. Incomplete as well as piece of cake applications volition non hold upwards considered. Only shortlisted candidates volition hold upwards notified. Candidates who had applied inward previous years as well as nonetheless come across the eligibility criteria are encouraged to re-apply.
It is of import to view the official website (link to it is below) for consummate data on the Application Process earlier you lot commence your application.
DEADLINES:
The deadline engagement to have all applications is 31st July 2017 at Midnight GMT+3
PLEASE NOTE:
The African Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AU-YVC), established inward 2010, is a continental evolution programme that promotes youth volunteerism inward Africa. In July 2006, African Union Head of U.S.A. as well as Governments coming together inward Banjul, Gambia, endorsed the African Youth Charter (AYC). The Charter is a political as well as legal document which serves every bit the strategic framework that gives direction for youth empowerment as well as evolution at continental, regional as well as national levels.
Application Deadline: 31 July 2017
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Africans)
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