UNITAR Fellowship for Afghanistan 2015 Cycle - Call for Applications
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Hiroshima Office has the pleasure of announcing the launch of the Call for Applications for the twelfth annual cycle of its highly successful UNITAR Fellowship for Afghanistan Programme. The Fellowship is a six-month long initiative, which builds the capacity, and enhances the leadership, management and professional skills of a core group of senior government officials, academics and practitioners from Afghanistan. Sharing Hiroshima's lessons in post-conflict reconstruction, the Fellowship examines important themes such as organization development and change, project design and management, and human resource development/management, and has thus far trained over 500 Afghan nationals, over an 11-year period.
The 2015 intake for the Fellowship will include 55 representatives of the Public Service, NGOs and the Private Sector of Afghanistan. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Download the application form for the programme.
Note
- Applications must be received by Wednesday 29 April 2015.
- Applications without the required documents, as outlined in the application form and not named in the correct manner will not be examined.
Objectives
The Fellowship’s two long-term objectives are:
- To support an Afghan cadre in the application of their increased knowledge, and confidence in the transformation of their respective departments and ministries
- To build a committed and highly capable Fellowship community in Afghanistan which can serve as a resource base for planning and implementing capacity-building and training activities at the local and national levels
Structure
The Fellowship’s substantive topics are, in part, determined by the needs of the Fellows, but in general come from the following themes:
- Organizational development and change
- Project design and proposal writing
- Project management and reporting
- Accounting and budgeting
- Leading and mentoring groups for development and change
- Team-building and teamwork
- Communication skills
- Strategic planning
- Social Capital
- Social Entrepreneurship
Workshops
The Fellowship consists of four Workshops, each standing as a milestone in the programme, and allowing for a review of Assignments, as well as the imparting of knowledge in preparation for the subsequent one. The timetable is as follows:
- Workshop I: Kabul
- Workshop II: Abu-Dhabi
- Workshop III: Kabul
- Workshop IV: Hiroshima
Fellows
First-time participants in the programme. Fellows are the main beneficiaries of the Cycle, and are divided into ten Groups at the beginning of the Fellowship.
Coaches
- Coaches are selected from the stand-out Fellows of previous Cycles and are tasked with providing unity and guidance to the Groups.
- They are also responsible for being the main contact point between Mentors and the Groups as a whole.
Afghan Resource Persons (ARPs)
- Selected from the stand-out Coaches of previous Cycles, ARPs act as apprentice faculty and work to contextualise the training being offered to the changing realities in Afghanistan.
- ARPs are also being offered further training in a module specifically designed for them, examining social entrepreneurship.
Mentors
Mentors are experts, practitioners or academics in various disciplines from around the globe.
The 30 Mentors in this Cycle come from the following countries:
- Afghanistan
- Canada
- Chile
- Japan
- Singapore
- United States of America
They are individuals willing to volunteer and share their knowledge, to guide and advise where requested, and are comfortable in a two-way learning relationship.
Mentors may also act as Resource Persons.
Resource Persons
Resource Persons provide the main presentations for the programme and attend workshops, either in person or electronically.
Related links
The application form for the programme (word document)