The Al-Mubadarah Fellowship: Arab Diaspora for Development (“Al-Mubadarah Fellowship”) is an innovative and unique program that works to engage diverse global Arab communities and individuals to contribute to professional and economic development in the Arab World, namely in their ancestral homelands.
The Al-Mubadarah Fellowship offers skilled and accomplished Arab Diaspora professionals with the tools to become mentors, advisors and colleagues to promising professionals and institutions in their field throughout the Arab World. The Fellowship aims to empower Arab professionals to realize the great potential in the impact of their professional contributions in helping advance and build institutions and community throughout the Arab World.
It is a ‘PeaceCorps’ for the Arab world that is staffed by Arabs. As part of our commitment to professional development both in the Diaspora and in MENA, Al-Mubadarah provides Fellows with administrative support, legal support, and extensive training and coaching throughout the duration of their Fellowship placement to ensure they have the tools necessary to effectively communicate and share their skills and expertise.
The Arab Diaspora – those of Arab descent who live outside the Arab world – has a crucial role to play in the development of Arab communities and countries. Given the high number of Arabs in the Diaspora, their education levels, and their career successes, the Arab Diaspora can be a catalyst for community development in the Arab world – through the investment of their time, expertise, and entrepreneurial spirit.
The Professional Development Platform will:
· Provide lasting service and skills to local recipient communities and institutions;
· Provide expat/diaspora Arabs a way to ‘give back’ to their homelands by helping pass on skills and knowledge through a transparent and accountable program;
· Mobilize resources for information sharing, knowledge building, and international technical assistance;
· Advance civic participation within recipient communities for an equitable and sustainable future;
· Strengthen professional ties in and between the arab world and its diaspora (emigrant community)
Matching capacities to needs by transferring the knowledge, skills, expertise and passion of Arabs back to their homelands.
Seeking Professional Fields & Areas of Expertise:
· Medicine and Science (advanced surgery, non-traditional medicine, traditional medicine, therapy, medical research)
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· Business and Management
· Education (elementary, higher education, non-traditional)
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The Al-Mubadarah Fellowship Program will work in partnership with other institutions to satisfy the unmet human and intellectual capacity needs of organizations and industries operating in Arab World by providing professional talent to help contribute to operations and programming. Al-Mubadarah will also work in collaboration with institutions to develop target programming to help fill capacity voids in various professions and institutions in the Arab World. We will work with diverse partners in each country and develop programming to reflect local needs.
Fostering growth in diverse stakeholders serves three purposes:
· To meet the needs of communities and institutions in the Arab World while fostering personal and professional development among Fellows;
· To foster a sense of professional activism in Fellows;
· Deliver hope and elevated standards in communities, occupations and host institutions.
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