Volume 2, Number 1
October 1996

Fellowship Announcement

The WorldWID (Women in Development) Fellowship Program targets mid-career professionals, both men and women, who have a strong personal commitment to integrating WID expertise and gender analysis into their own work, institutions, and professional associations.

Special attention is being focused on recruiting Fellows from minority groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in the administration of U.S.-supported foreign assistance programs. Fellows would likely come from U.S. businesses, nongovernmental organizations, private voluntary organizations, or teaching institutions (K-12, colleges, universities). Candidates are required to have a guaranteed job to which they will return after completion of the Fellowship.

Approximately eight fully-funded WorldWID fel-lowships will be awarded each year over a three-year period. Only U.S. citizens may apply. Each fellowship includes a stipend, domestic travel connected to the project, national and international travel to USAID assignment, and some limited support in excess of the stipend for overseas living arrangements.

The fellowship consists of approximately two months of specialized training and orientation followed by a three-to-ten-month assignment in Washington or abroad (in Africa, Asia and the Near East, Latin America and the Caribbean, or newly-independent states of the former Soviet Union) during which fellows will assist USAID with the performance of specific WID-related tasks. Fellows may be appointed for periods shorter than the normal 12 months. Fields that are in particular need of Fellows are human rights, economic growth, and human capacity development.