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Fellows in Focus: Florence Nakazi, a 2025 AWARD Policy Fellow
The Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship is a career development program that targets mid-career African women in the policy field to catalyze the design and implementation of gender-responsive agricultural policies across Africa. Florence Nakazi, a 2025 AWARD Policy Fellow from Uganda, narrates her experience from the Women’s Leadership and Management Course (WLMC) that […]
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Fellows in Focus: Kamashazi Chantal, a 2025 AWARD Policy Fellow
The Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship is a career development program that targets mid-career African women in the policy field to catalyze the design and implementation of gender-responsive agricultural policies across Africa. Chantal Kamashazi, a 2025 AWARD Policy Fellow from Rwanda, narrates her experience from the Women’s Leadership and Management Course (WLMC) that […]
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Fellows in Focus: Esther Dusabe, a 2025 AWARD Policy Fellow
The Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship is a career development program that targets mid-career African women in the policy field to catalyze the design and implementation of gender-responsive agricultural policies across Africa. Esther Dusabe, a 2025 AWARD Policy Fellow from Rwanda, narrates her experience from the Women’s Leadership and Management Course (WLMC) that […]
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Fellows in Focus: Natasha Mtika, a 2025 AWARD Policy Fellow
The Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship is a career development program that targets mid-career African women in the policy field to catalyze the design and implementation of gender-responsive agricultural policies across Africa. Natasha Mtika, a 2025 AWARD Policy Fellow from Malawi, narrates her experience from the Women’s Leadership and Management Course (WLMC) that […]
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Fellows in Focus: Dr. Rosemary Akolaa, a 2025 AWARD Policy Fellow
The Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship is a career development program that targets mid-career African women in the policy field to catalyze the design and implementation of gender-responsive agricultural policies across Africa. Dr. Rosemary Akolaa, a 2025 AWARD Policy Fellow from Ghana, narrates her experience from the Women’s Leadership and Management Course (WLMC) […]
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50 African Women Policy Practitioners Join the Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy Fellowship
We are pleased to welcome the third cohort of 50 dynamic African women into the Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship for an immersive career development journey that will combine leadership development, technical excellence and mentoring. The 50 policy practitioners from five Africa countries – Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and Uganda— were selected from […]
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#FellowsinFocus: Meet Coumbaly Diaw, a sustainable agrifood systems expert from Senegal
The second cohort of GRASP Policy Fellows convened in Mombasa, Kenya, for their first in-person training of the Women’s Leadership and Management Course (WLMC), which seeks to reinforce the skills needed to enhance leadership capacity and managerial effectiveness of women scientists and professionals who work in international research centers and multinational organizations. Coumbaly Diaw, a […]
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#FellowsinFocus: Meet Halimata Sawadogo, a data expert from Burkina Faso
The second cohort of GRASP Policy Fellows convened in Mombasa, Kenya, for their first in-person training of the Women’s Leadership and Management Course (WLMC), which seeks to reinforce the skills needed to enhance leadership capacity and managerial effectiveness of women scientists and professionals who work in international research centers and multinational organizations. Halimata Sawadogo, a […]
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Immersive Training Courses
The GRASP Fellowship will support selected AWARD Policy Fellows for a two-year non-residential program that will involve intensive customized virtual and face-to-face mentoring and training programs. The training will tackle how the policy professionals can become adept at being effective negotiators, sharpen their skills to design gender-responsive policies, and build collaborative relationships with different stakeholders […]
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Three-tier mentoring program
The GRASP Fellowship will entail a three-tiered mentoring process where mentors and mentees, at different stages in their careers, develop mutually beneficial and supportive relationships around their professional and personal capacities. Each Fellow will be matched with a mentor who will be a senior policy professional and a mentee who will be a junior policy […]
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