Full Scholarships for MDF Courses in Netherlands, 2018

Deadline: 30 March 2018
Open to: international students
Fellowship: cover all costs: travel costs, accommodation, meals, excursions, and the training fee

Description

Three MDF courses are currently available with full scholarships which cover all participants support costs: travel costs, accommodation, meals, excursions, and of course the training fee. The courses are 2 and 4 weeks long. Application deadline is 30 March 2018.

Development professionals can apply for these scholarships.

Eligibility

OKP sponsorship:

  • The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, funder of the NFP KOP and MSP programmes, has set a list of eligible countries. Professionals who are nationals of and work and live in one of these 51 KOP countries can apply;
  •  You must not be employed by an organization that has its own means of staff-development. Organisations that are considered to have their own means of staff development are for example:
  1. multinational corporations (e.g. Shell, Unilever, Microsoft),
  2. large national and/or large commercial organisations;
  3. bilateral donor organizations (e.g. USAID, DFID, Danida, Sida, Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs, FinAid, AusAid, ADC, SwissAid),
  4. multilateral donor organizations, (e.g. a UN organization, the World Bank, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, IADB),
  5. international NGO’s (e.g. Oxfam, Plan, Care);
  •  You must have an official and valid passport;
  •  You must not receive more than one fellowship for courses that take place at the same time;
  •  You must have a government statement that meets the requirements of the country in which the employer is established (only if applicable, please check this overview);
  •  you have an employer’s statement that complies with the format Nuffic has provided. All information must be provided and all commitments that are included in the format must be endorsed in the statement that should be printed on your organization’s official letterheaded paper;
  •  You have a good command of English or French to be able to participate fully in the training. MDF Training & Consultancy reserves the right to check this.

MSP sponsorship:

  •  You are a national of, and working and living in, one of the 9 MSP countries;
  •  You are a mid-career professional and are nominated by your employer, who pledges to continue paying your salary and guarantees that you will be able to return to the same or an equivalent position at the end of your fellowship period. While scholarships are awarded to individuals, the need for training must be demonstrated in the context of the organization for which the applicant works. The training must help the organisation develop its capacity. This means that you must have an employer’s statement that complies with the format Nuffic has provided. All information must be provided and all commitments that are included in the format must be endorsed in the statement;
  • You must not be employed by an organisation that has its own means of staff-development. Organisations that are considered to have their own means for staff development are for example:
  1.  multinational corporations (e.g. Shell, Unilever, Microsoft),
  2.  large national and/or a large commercial organisations,
  3.  bilateral donor organisations (e.g. USAID, DFID, Danida, Sida, Dutch ministry of Foreign affairs, FinAid, AusAid, ADC, SwissAid),
  4.  multilateral donor organisations, (e.g. a UN organization, the World Bank, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, IADB),
  5.  international NGO’s (e.g. Oxfam, Plan, Care);
  •  You must have an official and valid passport;
  •  You must not receive more than one fellowship for courses that take place at the same time;
  •  You must have a government statement that meets the requirements of the country in which the employer is established (only if applicable, check this overview);
  •  You must not be over 45 years of age at the time of the grant submission.
  •  You have a good command of English to be able to participate fully in the training. MDF Training & Consultancy reserves the right to check this.

Priority areas

  • The Dutch Ministry who is financing the scholarships aims at a sustainable capacity development of organisations involved in democratic transition processes;
  •  Each of the Dutch Embassies in the MSP countries work within the policy lines of the Dutch government. Within this framework they have set priorities for their field of work. Please visit the Embassy website to find out more;
  •  There is a further priority to provide scholarship opportunities to women.

Fellowship

Three MDF courses are currently available with full scholarships which cover all participants support costs: travel costs, accommodation, meals, excursions, and of course the training fee.

How to Apply?

You only need to apply in Atlas.

  1. Look at their overview of available NFPr&MSP sponsored courses and read the course description.
  2.  Before you start in Atlas, you need to have all the required documents and information ready, as you will need to submit them online during one session. Learn more on how to apply in Atlas (see guidelines).  Required documents are only accepted in pdf format (max 2 Mb).
  3.  A Letter of motivation: Have this prepared so you can copy/paste it into the online application form. This motivation will weigh heavily in the selection procedure. Questions that are asked in your Nuffic application are: What is the issue or problem you want to address in your country?
    How will this course enable you to address this issue?
    How will you address this issue with your position within your organisation?
  4.  The required documents: Copy of a valid passport
    Employers letter, see step 1.
    Government statement, see step 1.
    Admission letter: here we ask you to include your CV of maximum two pages, including also your field of working: please also indicate the focus area.

For more information please visit the official website.