Applications are open for the CFJ’s Second Year Fellowship Program for African Women Lawyers in 2024. Read on to learn how to apply for this exciting program.
When is Application Deadline:
Opening: Monday, July 15, 2024
Closing: Sunday, August 4, 2024, at 11 p.m. SAST.
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Tell Me About the Award:
After a successful first year, the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) launched the second year of its Waging Justice for Women Fellowship today. Ten early-career women lawyers in Africa will receive an annual salary funded by CFJ and an opportunity to work with leading human rights organizations across Africa to promote gender justice for women and girls. The Fellowship is administered in partnership with the Legal Empowerment Fund at the Fund for Global Human Rights.
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Which Fields are Eligible?
Law
Type:
Fellowship.
Who can Apply for the CFJ’s Second Year Fellowship Program for African Women Lawyers?
A qualifying law degree
Practice Certificate:
- Admitted to practice as a lawyer in at least one of the countries of the host organizations
- Fellows must be admitted to practice as lawyers in the respective country of their host organization of choice.
Work experience:
- At least two years of post-qualification experience in the legal field. (As this fellowship is for early-career women lawyers, we will be less likely to consider women with more than five years of legal experience post-qualification)
- Experience in women’s rights and working in human rights organizations preferred.
Citizenship or work authorization:
- In either Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, or Liberia
- Costs relating to international relocation and acquiring work authorization cannot be supported
Skills/competencies:
- Experience working with survivors and/or impacted communities
- Experience integrating gender and child-sensitive perspectives into substantive work
- Interest in gender equality and women’s rights
- Commitment to the mission and goals of the Clooney Foundation for Justice and relevant host organizations
- A demonstrated ability to conduct complex legal analysis and fact-finding
- Excellent research, writing and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter with excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Demonstrated commitment to social justice and human rights and creativity in crafting strategies to advance justice in our priority areas
- Willingness to travel
- Fluency in English required; proficiency in other working languages relevant to the countries of host organizations preferred.
Which Countries are Eligible?
Afircan countries
Where will Award be Taken?
How Many Awards?
Ten awards.
What is the Benefit of Award?
The benefits of the CFJ’s Second Year Fellowship Program:
- Each of the 10 fellows will be placed in a different organization across Africa.
- The fellows will spend one year working with their host organizations on a wide variety of women’s and girls’ rights issues.
- They support at least one strategic litigation case designed to advance women’s and girls’ rights in national, regional, or international courts, or UN human rights mechanisms.
- The fellows receive mentorship, monthly online training, and access to leading lawyers, activists, and academics from across Africa and around the world.
How Long Will the Award Last?
Fellowships will be full-time, one-year opportunities, running from January 2025 – December 2025.
The ten host organizations partnering with CFJ on the Fellowship Program in 2025 are:
- AdvocAid, Sierra Leone
- Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL), Liberia
- Centre for Human Rights Education Advice and Assistance (CHREAA), Malawi
- Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Female Lawyers Association Gambia (FLAG), The Gambia
- Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA), South Africa
- Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), The Gambia
- Katiba Institute, Kenya
- Pan-African Lawyers Union (PALU), Tanzania
- Women Lawyers Association (WLA), Malawi
How to Apply for the CFJ’s Second Year Fellowship Program for African Women Lawyers:
Click here now to apply.
If you have any questions or have technical issues arise in completing the application, please email [email protected].
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