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UNITAR Hiroshima Fellowship for Afghanistan

2007 Cycle

Duration:  May-November 2007

OBJECTIVES and METHODOLOGY

The UNITAR Hiroshima Fellowship for Afghanistan is a long-term initiative aimed at capacity building, and enhancing leadership, executive and professional skills of a core group of senior Afghan government officials, academics and practitioners, in order to help them achieve their personal learning and professional goals. 

The Fellowship undertakes a combination of different training methods and a series of skills-building activities throughout the year, such as on-site workshops, Mentor/Coach/Fellow communication, video conferences (VCs), audio-web conferences (AWCs) and project work sessions (PWSs).

Up to three workshops will be held as part of the 2007 Cycle, alternating with VCs and AWCs. The first two workshops will be held in Kabul or in the region, while the final one takes place in Hiroshima.  Each workshop is about four days long and focuses mainly on a single subject so that the particular set of skills can be fully developed and absorbed by the Fellows. Topics are, in part, determined by the requests and needs of the Fellows, but in general come from the following list of key themes:     

• Accounting and budgeting;

• Project design and proposal writing;

• Project management and reporting;

• Team-building and teamwork;

• Communication skills;

• Leading professional and organizational development; and

• Training of Trainers and development of training programmes.

Fellows are required to attend all Fellowship activities.

PARTICIPANTS

The participants will be selected based on specific criteria established by UNITAR and partners, such as their professional background, motivation, and ‘human resource development role’ in specific areas of professional responsibility within the government or in civil society. In addition to an appropriate level of English language and computer skills, participants should have at a minimum a Bachelor’s degree (preference will be given to candidates with post graduate qualifications), and be within the age group of 25 to 50 years.

Preference will be given to candidates already in decision-making, policy-planning or, most preferably, capacity-building and training positions. Priority areas for the 2007 Fellowship are: public health, higher education, human resource development, environment and economics/finance.

Once selected, Fellows continue to work at their jobs in Afghanistan throughout the Fellowship period and will have to meet requirements underlined in the Fellows’ Terms of Reference (see Application Package).

WORKING LANGUAGE

All training events are conducted in English. A good understanding of spoken and written English is thus mandatory.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Government officials should apply through the Civil Service Training and Development Department of the IARCSC (Prime minister's Compound, Shah Mahmood Ghazi Watt). Other applications should be submitted to UNITAR (hiroshima@unitar.org).  Please also note that incomplete applications will not be considered by UNITAR.

Should you have any questions please contact Ms. Sharapiya Kakimova at sharapiya.kakimova@unitar.org

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