One Million Leaders Asia Fellowship Program 2025

OMLAS aims to transform the lives of people in Asia by connecting, inspiring, and empowering youth. To help realize the Asia Vision 2030, they will provide youth with leadership and social entrepreneurship training tailored to local contexts. They will also create networking opportunities and platforms for young leaders across Asia to implement their social innovation ideas through transparent and participatory mechanisms.

Program Phases

• PHASE 1: Fellows’ Intensive Training
  • Fellows’ Intensive Training is the first phase, where selected young leaders receive intensive training based on the five pillars of the OML Fellowship Curriculum. These selected young leaders are referred to as Fellows. There will be two to three live virtual sessions in the evening of every week in this phase.
• Phase 2: Leadership Challenge
  • Fellows take on a leadership challenge to connect, inspire, and empower young leaders in their communities as they pass on their learning and build a team. They call this second tier of young leaders Champions, and each Fellow is expected to build a team of at least 20 Champions in their communities and networks.
  • MLAS Secretariat will provide sessions on five pillars. Then, Fellows have a choice to collaborate with other Fellows to train Champions or do it independently. Each Champion after the training phase must go through assessment to be eligible for OML Leader recognition and certificate.
• Phase 3: Act-For Change/Oml Summit
  • In October (17-19) 2025, Fellows and Champions will participate in virtual as well as physical (hybrid) OML Summit. Fellows who are interested to do projects are encouraged to find their own funding to implement the projects.
• Phase 4: Graduation and Oml Alumni Community
  • All Fellows and Champions who have successfully completed the Fellowship Program will graduate as OML leaders and join the global OML Alumni Community. They will help connect, inspire, and empower NexGen leaders around the world and gain access to the networking and empowerment opportunities provided in and through the Alumni Community.

Curriculum Pillars 

• Pillar One
  • Base Camp
• Pillar Two
  • Sustainability Essentials
• Pillar Three
  • Ethical and Transformative Leadership
• Pillar Four
  • Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
• Pillar Five
  • Personal Wellbeing and Resilience

What to Expect?

• Training
  • Intensive online training (3 months) on the Five OML Curriculum Pillars. This will equip Fellows with skills, tools, and knowledge to lead and inspire positive change
• Opportunity to mentor young leaders
  • Opportunity to grow as a leader and mentor other NexGen sustainability leaders.
• Opportunity to host and lead OML Summit
  • In October (17-19) 2025, NELIS Global and OMLAS Secretariat will host OML Summit (Virtual) and local physical summit. Fellows and Champions could lead and organize this global as well as local summit.
• Local2Global Networking
  • The networking opportunities with leaders from all Asian countries is invaluable. It will provide long term engagement with leaders and change-makers in the Global Alumni Community.

Eligibility Criteria

• Engaged/interested in social problem solving/leadership development/Social entrepreneurship
• Committed to lead and mentor other youths for positive social change
• Passionate for sustainable/Nature based solution and ethical action and community development
• Willingness to commit to complete the all four phases of the Program from March to November 2025
• Age:
  • Between 18 to 40 at the time of application.
• Language:
  • English (be conversant).
• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree running or above. Any academic background is acceptable.
• Country:
  • Country of origin and country of residence should be same and from Asia Pacific during the Program (March to November)

For more information, visit NELIS.