A training, event or programme here can have a fee, and it says so on the page with a named organisation behind it. Being asked for money in private is different: no fee to process, secure or release anything, and nothing paid to a person instead of an organisation. That is a scam - report it.
Twelve months, fully funded, based in Nairobi with travel across the region. For people under 35 already working on climate, not people who want to start.
We fund about fifteen people a year. Last year we had 2,300 applications, so please read the eligibility before you spend a day on the form.
I reached the final round in 2025 and did not get it. Happy to say what I learned. The written task matters far more than the CV. They gave us a real policy problem and 48 hours.
Same experience. Answer the question they asked, not the one you wish they had asked. Two of the people in my group wrote beautiful essays about something adjacent and both were cut.