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The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP) Click here for an information bulletin for Palestinian applicants Click on the following links for application forms: Masters - PhD - Short courses - Refresher courses - Tailor-made Training ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ General Information Introduction The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP) are demand oriented fellowship programmes designed to foster institutional development. The NFP is initiated and fully funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the budget for development cooperation. This ministry has contracted the Netherlands Organization for international Cooperation in higher Education (Nuffic) to administer the NFP. The overall aim of the NFP is to help alleviate qualitative and quantitative shortages of skilled manpower and to do so within the framework of sustainable capacity-building directed towards reducing poverty in developing countries. More specifically, the NFP is focused on meeting the need for further training and capacity-building in developing counties. To maximize the fellowships’ impact on capacity-building, NFP funded training must be linked to the institutional development of organizations. A wide range of organizations are eligible-governmental, private and non-governmental. They can include education institutions, planning agencies, ministries, community-based organizations, and private enterprises, for example.
Target group The NFP target group consists of mid-career professionals who are already in employment and who are nationals of and working in one of 57 selected counties. While fellowships are awarded to individuals, the need for training must occur within the context of the organization for which an applicant works. The training must help the organization to develop its capacity. This means that applicant must be nominated by their employers. In fact, an application without the support of an employer will not be considered. Half of the available funding from the NFP budget should be spent on fellowships for female candidates and for candidates from sub-Saharan Africa.
NFP sub-programmes The NFP offers the following options: Individual fellowships for: - Short courses; - Mater’s degree programmes; - PhD studies. Group training: - tailor made training courses; - Refresher courses. For more information of the NFP please visit www.nuffic.nl/nfp/
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The International Institutes Cooperation Program The International Institutes Cooperation Programme (in Dutch “SII”) is one of the education programmes of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Development Cooperation. The SII programme is a higher education programme focused on South-South cooperation. It finances higher education projects with a regional or multi-country focus and in which the activities are demand-driven. The programme may finance (a combination of) activities in the fields of policy development, research (in the field of higher education), capacity building, higher education management, training of trainers, curriculum development, short courses, Master’s degrees, Ph.D programmes, seminars, staff and management training and scholarships. For each project at least one of the beneficiary countries must be a bilateral partner country for Dutch development cooperation. Click here for more information.
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