Fellowship overview
To build local capacity in Mozambique, WWF’s Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program (EFN) is offering fellowships to future conservation leaders to enable them to pursue graduate-level study (master’s and PhD) with the goal of advancing conservation in their home country. Applicants may apply for up to two years of funding and request up to $30,000 per year.
Focus areas
The following are eligible fields of study for the Mozambique fellowship.
- Marine and fisheries management (including MPA planning and management, terrestrial to marine connectivity, rights-based fishery management)
- Freshwater conservation (including identification of fish species and freshwater ecology, integrated watershed management, hydrology, or freshwater management, environmental flows to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems)
- Species conservation (including marine turtles, elephants, rhinos)
- Rapid ecological assessments of marine and terrestrial topics
- Social science as related to sustainable economic development
- Community-based natural resource management of forests, reefs, estuaries, and other coastal or freshwater areas
- Climate change adaptation, particularly for marine and coastal habitats and communities
- Policy, law and/or economics ä Physical oceanography and hydrological modeling
Fisherman with boats on the Ilha de Mafamede, Mozambique. Mafamede is part of the environmental protected area of Primeiras e Segundas
Photo: © WWF-US / James Morgan
Eligibility criteria
- You must be a citizen and legal permanent resident of Mozambique.
- You must have at least two years of conservation-related work or research experience.
- You must have a demonstrated commitment to working in conservation in Mozambique.
- Your research or academic program must address one of the focus areas listed.
- You must be enrolled in, admitted to, or have applied to a master’s or PhD program anywhere in the world.
- You must plan to begin your studies no later than January 2017.
- You must commit to working for at least two years in your home country after the completion of your degree.
- You must not have received a Train Fellowship or Scholarship in the past.
- You must contact EFN if you are a WWF employee, consultant, or previous EFN grant recipient.
- You must submit all required documents by the application deadline.
The deadline is March 1st, 2016.
For more information, visit the WWF EFN website.