Deadline: August 9, 2017
The Young Water
Fellowship Program aims to empower
young leaders from low and middle
income countries to implement
projects to tackle water, sanitation &
hygiene (WASH), water pollution and
water scarcity issues, by offering them
an intensive training program, seed
funding grants for their projects, and
mentoring support by senior level
experts during one year.
This program
will bring about in its first edition
(2017) 10 young community leaders
capable of successfully designing and
implementing sustainable and
inclusive water projects that
significantly improve living conditions
in their communities, while
contributing to the achievement of
SDG #6 (water and sanitation for all).
The fellowship is organized by Young
Water Solutions, an international non
profit organization aiming to develop
and support the potential of young
people to contribute to universal
water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
and water resources management.
They do so by empowering young
leaders, providing them the tools to
carry out water projects in their
communities. They promote an
integrated approach, through their
projects they often address interlinked
challenges such as climate change
adaptation, reforestation, youth
unemployment and food security.
Benefits
• Fellows will attend a one-week
workshop in Brussels and will
be trained by experts
in: IWRM, Project
management, Monitoring and
evaluation tools, Leadership,
Water and gender, Social
entrepreneurship, SDG 6;
• Fellows will be assigned a
mentor according to their
needs, who will provide
technical support throughout
the whole life-cycle of the
project;
• Fellows will be provided with
opportunities for seed funding
up to €5000 to implement
their projects.
Eligibility
• Applicants must be 18 to 30
years old at the time of the
application;
• Have a water project idea to
contribute to the solution of a
WASH (water, sanitation and
hygiene), water pollution or
water scarcity problem;
• Be a resident from this list of
low and mid income countries;
• Be the founder or co-founder
of the project idea you’re
proposing;
• The project must not have
been implemented yet,
although new phases of pilot
projects are accepted;
• Be able to attend a workshop
in Belgium in November 2017,
and cover your personal costs
from your residency to the;
airport and back (the rest of
the travel expenses are
covered);
• Be able to cover your visa
expenses. Organizers will
provide an invitation letter;
• Be able to communicate in
English (intermediate level at
least).
Application
To apply, you will need to record and
upload to YouTube a 2 minute video
describing your project proposal and
the problem it seeks to address, and
fill in 36 questions about your project
and yourself. No answer about
yourself is right or wrong: what
organizers value the most is honesty
in the answers.
Click HEREto apply.
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