Deadline: 1 March 2016
To build local capacity in freshwater conservation in Asia, Africa and Latin America, WWF’s Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program (EFN) is offering freshwater fellowships to future conservation leaders to enable them to pursue graduate level study (master’s and PhD) in a freshwater focused field.
Eligible Countries
Bolivia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Honduras, Laos, Nepal, Paraguay, Uganda, Zambia.
Focus Areas
The following are eligible fields of study for the freshwater fellowship:
- Water policy and governance
- Water pricing and economics
- Transboundary water resource management and governance
- Mitigating the impacts of effluents and run-off of sediments and nutrients and other hydrological changes
- Behaviour change and motivation to protect freshwater systems within a specific cultural context
- Scenarios and trade-offs in development planning and sustainable management of freshwater ecosystems
- Impacts of climate change on water use, freshwater ecosystems, water security, and water conflicts
- Impacts of water infrastructure development (dams, levees, irrigation schemes, and others) on freshwater ecosystems and species (e.g. migration patterns ) and/or trade-offs with other ecosystem services
- Natural and nature-based flood risk management
- Methods for collecting and analyzing data and assessing and monitoring environmental health of water bodies and watersheds
Award Information
Applicants may apply for up to two years of funding and request up to $30,000 per year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a citizen and legal permanent resident of an eligible country.
- Applicants must have at least two years of conservation-related work or research experience.
- Applicants must have a demonstrated commitment to working in conservation in an eligible country.
- Applicant’s research or academic program must address one of the focus areas listed.
- Applicants must be enrolled in, admitted to, or have applied to a master’s or PhD program anywhere in the world.
- Applicants must plan to begin your studies no later than January 2017.
- Applicants must commit to working for at least two years in your home country after the completion of your degree.
- Applicants must not have received a Train Fellowship or Scholarship in the past.
- Applicants must contact EFN if you are a WWF employee, consultant, or previous EFN grant recipient.
- Applicants must submit all required documents by the application deadline.
Application Process
Applicants must apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit WWF Fellowships.
