Description
The Pan African Fellowship Programme provides an opportunity for African grassroots activists to deepen their theoretical and practical understanding and experience of strategies for effective organizing and creating meaningful change. The objectives of the Pan African Fellowship programme are as follows: * To inspire grassroots organizers to derive theories that explain their struggles and organizing; * To meet the demand for commonly produced knowledge, experience, and skills among African activists that initiates sustained processes of reflection, action, and analyses on local and continental struggles; * To build a cadre of politically conscious and organic intellectual-activists who are able to alter power relations around their struggles for sustainable change.Details
Name of Primary Programme Pan-African Fellowship Programme – Fahamu |
Programme Start Date 2011 |
Telephone Number +254 20 3749346 |
Programme Type Leadership Mentorship Programme |
Numbers of programme participants annually 25 - 250 |
Telephone Number - alternate +254 20 3749347 |
Programme Funders Government, Philanthropic, Corporate |
Region from which participants are selected East Africa |
Organisation website |
Government funding Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency |
African country or countries of programme delivery Kenya, Senegal |
Programme Contact email info@fahamu.org |
Philanthropic funders Arcus Foundation, New Field Foundation, Ford Foundation, Karibu Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Sigrid Rausing Trust, The Swift Foundation, Trust Africa, UHAI-EASHRI, Urgent Action Fund-Africa, Atlantic Philanthropies |
Region of programme delivery Sub-Saharan Africa |
Country of operation Kenya |
Corporate funders AgroEcology Fund, Our Afrikan Heritage, American Jewish World Service, Christian Aid, Christensen Fund, FK Norway, Grassroots International, Hivos, IBON advocates, Inter Pares, Oxfam GB, |
Are programmes continuing? Yes |
Organisation Name Fahamu |
Leadership organisation location
Peponi Plaza, Nairobi, Kenya