Africa

Get a Fully Funded Trip to Seoul for a Youth Peace and Advocacy Workshop: UNESCO GCED Fellowship-Style Training 2026

If you’re the kind of young leader who’s tired of “awareness” campaigns that go nowhere, this opportunity has your name on it.

Get a Funded Postdoc in Sustainability and Conservation Science 2026: $70,000 Stipend + $10,000 Research Fund at Penn and The Nature Conservancy

If you want a postdoc that pairs rigorous university science with boots-on-the-ground conservation practice, this is one to read carefully.

Amount: See official source for award amount or financial terms. Deadline: Jan 30, 2026

Get a University of Pennsylvania-Backed STEM Fellowship Online: AFS Global STEM Accelerators 2026 for Girls Ages 15–17.5

There are plenty of teen STEM programs that promise “inspiration” and deliver… a PDF and a pep talk. The **AFS Global STEM Accelerators 2026** is not that.

Get Blended Finance Up to $1,000,000 for Youth Agribusiness in Africa: AfDB Enable Youth Guide 2025

If you are a young founder building an agrifood business in Africa, this is not another petty grant that covers a few sacks of seed.

Amount: USD $1,000,000 blended facility Deadline: Nov 14, 2025 Location: Africa

Get Fully Funded Policy Training for Postgraduate Researchers: SAIIA Africa Youth Portal and Research Programme 2025

If you are a postgraduate researcher dreaming of taking your academic work out of journals and into policy conversations, this is the kind of opportunity that short-circuits the usual circuitous route.

Amount: See official source for award amount or financial terms. Deadline: See official source for current deadline.

Get Fully Funded to Cape Town for a Global Leadership Summit: ATKV x Global Changemakers Global Youth Summit 2026 (Flights, Hotel, Meals)

You know that feeling when you’re doing meaningful work in your community—organizing, building, advocating, patching together solutions with more grit than budget—and you think, *If I could just get in the room with the right people, I could...

Get NGN 6.5 Billion per State Consortium: NPHCDA Grant for Health Supply Chain Digitalization, Cold Chain and Last Mile Delivery (2025)

If your state health ministry has ever stared at a fridge that should be full of vaccines and found only dust and a thermometer that reads "—", this opportunity was written for you.

Amount: NGN ₦6,500,000,000 per state consortium Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 Location: Nigeria

Get Paid EUR 2,070 per Month to Finish Your Development Economics PhD: UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship 2026 in Helsinki (Funded)

If you are a PhD student working on developing economies, you already know the feeling: your dissertation is a living creature that eats time, demands data, and somehow always needs “one more robustness check.

Get Paid to Coordinate a Global Youth Peacebuilding Network: UNOY Network and Membership Coordinator Job in The Hague (€2,556 per month, 0.8 FTE)

Some jobs look good on paper. This one looks good on paper *and* in real life—because it sits right at the nerve center of a global youth peacebuilding network that actually does things, not just “raises awareness” and posts group photos.

Get Pro Bono IBM AI and Cloud Support for Climate and Economic Resilience: A Practical Guide to the IBM Impact Accelerator 2026

Most “tech for good” opportunities come with one of two problems: either they’re tiny (a few thousand dollars and a webinar), or they’re enormous and bureaucratic (a grant the size of a small moon, buried under a mountain of compliance).