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WomenLift Health East Africa Signature Leadership Journey for Women In East And Central Africa 2023

WomenLift Health East Africa Signature Leadership Journey for Women In East & Central Africa 2023

WomenLift Leadership Journeys are 12-month, fully-funded programs for participants to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, build an inclusive and diverse network which fosters a strong sense of belonging, learn and practice tools and strategies for enhancing their voice, presence, and influence – while being supported by a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches.

Both Journeys impart contextualized tools & frameworks to address the individual, organizational, and societal challenges that women leaders in global health face today.

Our Signature Leadership Journey is a transformational learning and development experience that brings together mid to senior career women working across multiple disciplines, fields, and sectors in health.

This Journey is aimed at creating the mindset shift needed to solve complex challenges that we are facing in global public health today.

are only 4 rules for the Leadership Project:

It should focus on improving outcomes at the intersection of health and gender equality, or take a gendered lens on a global health issue
It should leverage your leadership skills
It should be within your scope of control or influence, but also stretch you beyond your day-to-day work requirements
You should be passionate about it

Leadership Projects fit into one of four themes:

Centering women and girls in health
Catalyzing institutional change
Optimizing pathways to leadership
Building integrated & resilient health systems

Your Leadership Project could accomplish one or more of the following, but is not limited to:

Answering a research question
Promoting health or gender education in a particular group
Developing a new or better technology
Innovating a better way to collect/analyze/use health/gender data
Improving a gender or health-related process/system in your organization
Empowering or enabling women in your community or organization to be successful
Incorporating a gendered lens into a policy, practice or research project where it was absent

About Women Lift Health

Achieving today’s complex global health goals requires greater and more diverse leadership talent across sectors and countries.

And yet women are an untapped talent pool, representing 70% of the health workforce but only 25% of executive positions and 5% of CEO-level positions.

WomenLift Health will work with partners around the world to accelerate the advancement of talented women into senior leadership by investing in mid-career women and influencing the environments in which they live and work.

Benefits of WomenLift Health East Africa Signature Leadership Journey for Women In East & Central Africa 2023

Free (all program costs, including travel and lodging, are covered)

Requirements for WomenLift Health East Africa Signature Leadership Journey for Women In East & Central Africa 2023

You are eligible for consideration if you meet all of the following criteria:

Identify as a woman Work in a role that focuses on public health policy, practice, and/or research (your work and partnerships serve populations at the national level in your country of residence or East Africa regional level and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.)

READ: UNESCO Internship Program 2024

Mid-Career Leader: Possess sufficient years (10 – 20 years) of experience in public health Reside and work within Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan or Tanzania Must be a national of one of the five countries Possess fluency and ease in written and verbal communication in English to express the next level of emotional processing required for the Journey.

We require participants to be living in the Central Africa (CAT) or East Africa (EAT) time zones for at least 75% of the program as we believe time zone compatibility is essential to your ability to participate at the touchpoints and to engage with your peers within and outside of the sessions.

WomenLift Health is committed to selecting diverse cohort members, representing different sectors (public, private, academia, NGO, philanthropy), disciplines, and cultural backgrounds.