The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) in partnership with Mastercard Foundation and several other universities in Africa, is offering the Mastercard TAGDev Scholarship.
The Transforming African Agricultural Universities to Meaningfully Contribute to Africa’s Growth and Development (TAGDev 2.0) program seeks to strengthen universities and TVET institutions to better serve communities by skilling and empowering Africa’s young people and their institutions to drive inclusive, equitable, and climate-resilient transformation of agriculture and agrifood systems.
The program will support young African students who are economically disadvantaged but academically competent to enable them cto omplete their studies.
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Eligibility
- Be a national of Uganda and East African countries implementing the common East Africa Higher Education Protocol (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan).
- Be economically disadvantaged, from marginalized communities, and/or coming from conflict and post-conflict areas in Uganda.
- Be less than 30 years for undergraduate and less than 35 years for master’s studies at the time of this call.
- Should have completed secondary school and/ or diploma for a Bachelor’s degree application not more than two years from the time of this call. For refugees and internally displaced persons, they should have completed their studies at the previous level at most four years before.
- The applicant should meet admission criteria to the eligible Programs in Gulu University.
- Demonstrate interest in agriculture, agribusiness and entrepreneurship
vii. Demonstrate leadership qualities. - Have commitment to working in agriculture and agricultural value chains.
- Have a strong commitment to community transformation.
- Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Benefits
The benefits of the Mastercard TAGDev Scholarship include a full board comprehensive scholarship that covers:
- tuition fees, research costs, workshop and conference costs,
- living expenses including stipend and hostel, laptop, internship attachment,
- community engagement and field attachment, and entrepreneurship training.
Required Documents
Undergraduate
- BSc. Agriculture
- BSc. Food Bioscience and Agribusiness
- BSc. Biosystems Engineering
- Bachelor of Science in Food Bioscience and Agribusiness
- Bachelor of Business Administration
- Bachelor of Business Education
Masters
- MSc. Food Security and Community Nutrition
- MSc. Agri-Enterprises Development
- MSc. Agronomy
- Master of Science in Environmental Science and Natural Resources Management
Deadline: April 1st, 2025
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