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Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI) Internship Programme for Young Women 2007

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The Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI) is looking for four young women aged 20-30 years from Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda to join the 2007 Internship Programme. The internship programme takes place every year from April to December.


This programme provides opportunities for learning, interacting and travelling. Its objective is to develop and enhance young women’s skills in leadership, lobbying and advocacy, programme management, report writing and analysis, research and documentation, information management, developing resourceful data bases, website maintenance and resource centre management.

The programme provides an opportunity for the interns to gain hands on experience working within a women’s organisation. They have the opportunity to bring their own perspectives into the work of EASSI and to shape the internship programme. The programme will in return work to shape their approach to feminism and issues at regional and global level that impact on women.

At the end of the internship programme, each intern is expected to produce a research report on an area of their choice but related to the work that EASSI does, based on their experience at EASSI.

Application Info

Applications for the Internship Programme are invited from young women within the sub-region who wish to take up such an opportunity. The interns must be recommended by a national women’s organisation within their country. The recommending organisation should have an interest in developing the young woman for a career in the organisation or elsewhere in their countries of origin. EASSI will provide comfortable accommodation and a monthly stipend for interns.

Applicants must posses a first degree in any field and must demonstrate commitment to gender equity and equality. They must be interested in working on women’s issues in the East African sub-region and be ready to stay away from their home countries for a period of nine months.

Interested people should send their application with a contact telephone and e-mail address, as well as a recommendation letter from a women’s organisation to:

Source

WOUGNET website on October 18 2006, and the WOUGNET-Update Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1.