The Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship is a two-year opportunity to promote global food and nutrition security through learning and practical work. Leland Fellows gain experience and professional skills working with host organisations in development or humanitarian placements around the world, and learn to see what works in international development - and what doesn't - and how to make the system more efficient, more effective, and more just. Each class of Leland Fellows forms a learning cohort, sharing knowledge and insight and growing together over the course of the two-year programme. And the Hunger Centre's dynamic leadership development curriculum focuses on the skills needed to create change in the humanitarian and international development sectors.

GAIN EXPERIENCE

Leland Fellows are placed with host organisations - international and local NGOs, multilateral organisations, private sector entities, or United Nations agencies - making substantial contributions to both programme and policy initiatives.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Fellows develop their technical skills, leadership abilities and professional network through direct work experience, as well as through face-to-face and remote Hunger Centre trainings, all in the context of a group learning support. All trainings build the grantees' core capacities, based on the Hunger Centre's twelve-point leadership skills model, and increase the grantees' ability to become effective agents of change on their chosen path.

BRIDGING THE GAP

Addressing the disconnect between public and institutional policy and programme implementation is a crucial step in delivering effective and efficient external assistance. The two Leland Fellows placements are co-ordinated to showcase an issue from two different perspectives and provide experience across the spectrum, identifying ways in which fellows can bridge the gap and make the greatest contribution to eliminating food and nutrition security.

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