Request for Applications: OML-MENA Fellowship Program

The Fellowship Program aims to equip one million NexGen leaders and social innovators with the required skills to lead positive and sustainable change in their regions by 2030.

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 learnings 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 (50 in OMLA).
  • In this phase, Fellows will also be provided with a series of Masterclasses on key sustainability topics, while they lead the training with their Champions.
• Phase 3: Act-For-Change
  • Fellows enter into a project implementation phase in collaboration with the team they built in Phase 2. Based on a rigorous screening process, selected fellows will be able to do their own projects to innovate around key sustainability challenges in their communities with a micro-grant from NELIS.
  • Fellows may propose themes based on what they perceive to be key social and environmental challenges in their community or country.
• Phase 4: Graduation and Oml Alumni Community
  • All Fellows and Champions who have successfully completed the Fellowship will graduate as OML leaders and may 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 (2-3 months) on the Five OML Fellowship Program Pillars
• Opportunity to mentor young leaders
  • Opportunity to grow as a leader and mentor other NexGen sustainability leaders
• Support for your project
  • Support in your Leadership Challenge and Act-for-Change phase (project implementation)
• Micro-grants for selected projects
  • Unique opportunities to implement your own/your teams’ community projects or social innovation projects (for selected projects)
• Local2Global Networking
  • Local and global networking opportunities for graduates, long-term engagement in the global OML Alumni Community

Eligibility Criteria

• Engaged in social/environmental/sustainability areas
• Committed to lead and mentor other youths for positive social change
• Passionate for sustainable and ethical action and community development
• Willing to commit to complete the training program and have access to the internet
• Age: Between 18 to 40 at the time of application
• Language: Arabic, English

For more information, visit NELIS.