ANNOUNCING THE 7TH ROUND
OF FORD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM FOR THE 2009/10
ACADEMIC YEAR
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Complete Announcement
Deadline for application has been
extended to Monday, 31st March 2008.
The International Fellowships Program (IFP) is a program based in New York, and supported by the Ford Foundation. It is administered in Tanzania as IFP-Tanzania in collaboration with the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF).
IFP-Tanzania is hereby announcing the fellowships for advanced study,
of up to three years of study to exceptional individuals with potential
qualities and who will use their education to further development
in their own communities and the nation, ultimately bringing about
greater social and economic justice in the country and also worldwide.
IFP fellowships will be awarded to applicants from diverse backgrounds,
more specifically, to those from social groups and communities that
lack systematic access to higher education.
These fellowships are tenable anywhere in the world, were the program has Strategic Partnership Universities (SUPs).
A total of Sixteen (16) fellowships will be awarded
to deserving Tanzania, for the 2009/10 academic year.
Eligibility Requirements:
Applicant must
- Be resident or resident nationals of Tanzania or other official
resident of Tanzania
- Hold an honours bachelor's degree- for those applying for Masters
Fellowships and a Masters degree- for those applying for Ph.D.
- Have demonstrated leadership skills and commitment to community
service and/ or national development.
- Have significant relevant professional or other work experience
related to proposed field of study, of not less than three (3)
years.
- Intent to pursue a post-graduate degree that will directly enhance
their leadership capacity in an academic, policy, practical or
artistic discipline and field corresponding to one or more of
the Foundation's areas of endeavor.
- Present a plan specifying how they will apply their studies
to social problems in their own countries.
- Commit themselves to working on these issues after completing
the fellowship period
Applicants for Ph.D. MUST also provide a synopsis of their
intended research in not more than five (5) pages.
Special Notes:
Priority will be given to people living and working with communities outside the major cities or
Those working with marginalized groups in rural or urban poor.
Applicants are cautioned that background checks would be run on short-listed candidates.
Applications must be labeled on top of the envelope to indicate the degree being applied "MASTERS "or "Ph.D."
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ATTENTION TO APPLICANTS
Deadline for application has been
extended to Monday, 31st March 2008.
Deadline for applications is not later than 5.00
p.m. on Monday 31st March 2008. Late applications will NOT be processed.
ONLY SHORT-LISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED.
Interested persons can obtain the Application Forms from the City Librarian at the Tanzania Library Services Headquarters in Dar es Salaam or from the Regional Librarians at the following Regional Libraries: Arusha, Bukoba, Dodoma, Iringa, Kigoma, Mbeya, Morogoro, Moshi, Mtwara, Musoma, Mwanza, Shinyanga, Singida, Songea, Sumbawanga, Tabora, Tanga and Manyara.
Applicants from Zanzibar can obtain the Application Forms from ANGOZA Offices, the Zanzibar Library Service and also from the State University of Zanzibar.
Forms will also be distributed by selected NGOs and individual
IFP Alumni and Fellows Elect.
THE APPLICATION PROCESS
Do not Fax or Email your Application.
All applications must be posted through EMS or delivered by hand
at the IFP Tanzania Office which is situated at the Economic and
Social Research Foundation (ESRF) in Dar es Salaam in envelopes
clearly marked "MASTERS" or " PH.D" To:
The Program Coordinator
Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program in Tanzania
Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF)
51 Uporoto Street, Ursino Estates
P.O. Box 31226
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania
Telephone: +255 22 2762473 / 2760260
Telefax: +255 22 2762472 / 2760062
E-mail: ifp@esrf.or.tz
Website: http://ifptanzania.esrftz.org/
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