Africa Finance Corporation Fellowship

The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) Fellowship is both a leadership development programme and a place for dialogue and exchange between leaders of the rising generation across the global South and North. The focus is our shared climate challenge and other key global issues. It will strengthen the capacity of a cohort of dynamic emerging leaders who, as they progress in their careers, will build bridges between the global North and South and find new ways to address the climate crisis.

The AFC Fellowship is a collaboration between Common Purpose and Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). The AFC Fellowship builds on the success of the pilot programme which ran in 2023 with 50 participants from around the world.

Benefits of Africa Finance Corporation

Participants will:

• Enhance their ability to Lead Beyond Authority equipping them to work across boundaries; a pre-requisite to solving any complex problem.
• Grow new networks by connecting with diverse participants, contributors and speakers from the global North and South who they would otherwise never meet.
• Stretch their analytical and creative skills by exposing them to a new approach to innovation.
• Develop their influencing skills by putting them in front of senior decision-makers to present their findings.
• Generate new ideas and approaches to meet this hugely important challenge.

Eligibility for Africa Finance Corporation

Successful applicants will be from different sectors, backgrounds, countries, and communities across Africa, the wider global South, and the global North.

They will be:

• Emerging leaders (typically with over 5 years professional experience).
• Highly motivated individuals who show commitment to bringing about positive change, and who can demonstrate their leadership potentials and/or capability.
• Interested in climate issues and in addressing the imbalance between the global North and South.