Youth-Leaders Fellowship

About the Fellowship

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has the mission to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every child birth is safe and 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”, UNFPA Ghana launched the Youth Leaders (YoLe) Fellowship Program. The YoLe Fellowship Program is also aligned to the priority areas of the 2010 Ghana National Youth Policy, which include skills training in ICT, gender mainstreaming, networking and partnership, mentoring and reproductive health and rights for young people.

About the Pioneer

Edward Adeniyi Ojuolape is a Nigerian diplomat,international development consultant and the United Nations Populations Fund's UNFPA Country Representative to Ghana.Ojuolape was appointed as the UNFPA resident representative in Ghana in August 2017. He has mainstreamed youth issues, zero gender-based violence,and comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), as core strands of the organisation.

Ojuolape held the position of chief programme officer of donor coordination for the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) in Nigeria,[2] where he coordinated the communications, donor activities and the development of resource mobilisation strategies that led to an increase of $150 million in funding for the Agency's portfolio over a five-year period. He has also worked as the special assistant to the Minister of Health in Nigeria – Late Babatunde Osotimehin. He played an integral role in the success of the Ministry of Health's supervision of approximately 4000 staff members and a budget of about $1.2 billion. He also worked on several World Bank funded projects between 2002 and 2005.

Fellows Work

Fellows

Eligibility

The Fellows Work

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Eligibility

Interested person must have:

Be a graduate of a Ghanaian tertiary institution between the ages of 18 and 26
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. see click here
Commit one year to being a Youth Leaders Fellow
Be proactive and possess strong inter-personal skills
Possess a working knowledge of English- an important prerequisite for participation in the program for general communication purposes. all application materials must be submitted in English.

Selection process

Selection will be based on demonstrated activism or interest in the advancement of the rights of youth,a desire to network with others,and a clear explanation of how the fellowship will benefit their own efforts for advancing human rights as defined by UNFPA's mandate.

The Fellows are expected to work full-time at the UNFPA Ghana Country Office in Accra,Ghana.Fellows may not be otherwise engaged during the fellowship

Application Process: Interested applicants should submit:

A statement,not more than one page,explaining their professional goals and ambitions.
C.V/Resume

Fellows

Patricia Iniworikaboa

Holds a degree in Accounting and worked in the operations unit of UNFPA-Ghana.

Jean-Philip Lawson

Holds a degree in Arts and Comm's studies and worked at the Office of the Rep for UNFPA-Ghana.

Farida Latif

Holds a degree in Political Studies and worked at Population and Development unit of UNFPA-Ghana.

Akosua Agyepong

Holds a degree in Family and Consumer Science and worked at the Office of the Rep for UNFPA-Ghana.

Derrick Botchway

Holds a degree in Geography and Psychology and worked at the Communication unit UNFPA-Ghana.

Evans Dodzi

Holds a degree in Human Resource Management and worked at the Operations unit UNFPA-Ghana.

Samira Osman

Holds a degree in Political Science and worked at the Population and Development unit UNFPA-Ghana.

Theodora Yeboah

Holds a degree in Arts in Social Work and Sociology and worked at the Maternal Health unit UNFPA-Ghana.

Dorcas Attah

Holds a degree in Human Resource Management and worked at the Gender unit UNFPA-Ghana.

Naa-Amy Wayne

Holds a degree in Biochemistry,Cell and Molecular Biology and worked at the ASRH unit UNFPA-Ghana.

Rafsabji Adams

Holds a degree in Communications Studies and worked at the Operations unit of UNFPA-Ghana.

Sarah Boateng

Holds a diploma in Communications Studies and worked at the Communications unit UNFPA-Ghana.

Bisola Olapade

Holds a degree in Human Resource Management and worked at the Maternal Health unit UNFPA-Ghana.

Michael Blankson

Holds a degree in Development Studies and worked at the Office of the Rep for UNFPA-Ghana.

Abigail Ashun

Holds a degree in French and Linguistics and worked at the ASRH unit for UNFPA-Ghana.

Barbara Kudjawu

Holds a degree in French and Linguistics and worked at the Gender unit of UNFPA-Ghana.