The Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA) invites African researchers to apply for our 2023-2024 CEGA Fellowship Request for Applications (RFA). CEGA's Fellowship Programme equips early-career African social scientists with the skills to conduct rigorous impact evaluations of economic development programmes and become champions of evidence-informed policy. The selected researchers will audit courses, develop skills in impact evaluation, access a personalised mentoring programme to develop their research ideas, and build their research networks. Successful fellows will be invited to join the Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA). We invite researchers from East and West Africa to apply for one of two opportunities:

1) A scholarship for residents during Autumn 2023 or Spring 2024 in person at the University of California, Berkeley or Northwestern University

2) A non-resident fellowship, a virtual version of our main resident fellowship where fellows are involved remotely for 12 weeks at around 15-20 hours per week.

VALUE
CEGA's resident fellowship programme will cover the cost of room and board in Berkeley, health insurance, visa fees, and round-trip economy airfare for selected fellows. In addition, fellows will receive a monthly stipend to cover any other expenses that may occur during their stay at UC Berkeley (local transport, toiletries, etc.). If taking unpaid leave from work will be a challenge, the Non-Resident Scholarship may be a better option for you.

ELIGIBILITY
Candidates for the CEGA Scholarship Programme must:
Be a national of an East African country or an Anglophone West African country (Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, South Sudan, Uganda, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Somalia, and Cameroon);
Be fluent in English;
Have completed a master's degree or a doctorate within the last 8 years, or be enrolled in a doctoral programme in economics, statistics, epidemiology/public health, or another social science discipline;
Have a current affiliation with a research institution, university or other research organisation in East or West Africa, preferably one that supports policy-relevant quantitative social science research;
[Plan to return to a research institute in East or West Africa after the residency fellowship at UC Berkeley or Northwestern University. If currently enrolled in a PhD programme outside the African continent, scholars may complete their PhD before their return.

To apply and for more information visit here.