Information on the documents to be submitted to apply to the IFP
Find detailed information on how to apply to the Indigenous Fellowship Program
PRESENTATION AND MOTIVATION FILES:
The document(s) can be in video, audio, image, word, power point or pdf format.
These are some of the questions that candidates should answer in their motivational letter:
Sub-programs 1, 2 and 3:
- Who am I?
- What is my community?
- What have I done/my experience leading or supporting Indigenous Peoples organizations and implementing projects or initiatives with Indigenous Peoples’ communities?
- What am I doing now?
- Why do I want to apply for this fellowship program? And for this subprogram in particular?
- How will it help me to achieve what I want to do?
- Which project am I implementing right now and will be implementing after the fellowship?
- How will I engage with IPARD’s 3 objectives? (Capacity Development, Political Incidence and Economic Development), Which of the three objectives interests you the most? (for sub-program 1)
- Why should I be selected for this program? How will this fellowship program improve my capacities and why do you need it?
Sub-program 4:
- Who am I?
- What is my community?
- What have I done/my experience leading or supporting my community or an organization of Indigenous Peoples and implementing projects or initiatives with Indigenous Peoples’ communities?
- What am I doing now?
- Why do I want to apply for this fellowship program? And for this subprogram in particular?
- What would I do with the new knowledge and skills that I would acquire thanks to my participation in the fellowship program?
Information on the entrepreneurship:
GENERAL INFORMATION:
- Title of entrepreneurship
- Country/province/community of implementation
- Economic sector and crosscutting topics to which it applies
- Including a letter from an Indigenous Peoples’ organization supporting the initiative (with name, address, phone number and a specific contact with name, surname, email and signature)
WHAT?
- Description of the entrepreneurship and its impact in the community
- Number of possible families to be benefited from the proposal
WHO?
- Description of the internal organization of the entrepreneurship, year of creation, contact information, assets.
- What are the identified needs for organizational development and other technical needs to strengthen the entrepreneurship?
WHY?
- Why should this entrepreneurship be selected?
- What is the expected result?
HOW & WHEN?
- How is the accelerating investment going to be used and how will it contribute to Indigenous self-development and Indigenous self-reliance?
- When is it going to be executed?
- A budget and execution schedule should be included.
SUBMIT TWO REFERENCE LETTERS BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ ORGANIZATIONS:
The documents can be in word, in power point, pdf format or a picture.
References cannot be provided by members of the candidates’ immediate family i.e. parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, or grandparents).
This is the minimum information that should be included in the reference letter:
For all sub-programs:
Information on the candidate:
- Name and surname
- How is/was she/he involved in the Organization or in community affairs? (participating member, management team member)
- What does she/he do in the Organization/community/enterprise?
- What are her/his skills that make her/him a good fit for the program that she/he wants to apply?
- What are her/his characteristics. i.e: persistent, committed, honest, avid learner, respectful, hard worker, empathetic.
Information on the organization (or Indigenous Authority) that is writing the reference:
- Name
- Address, including community, municipality and country.
- Phone number
- Specific contact with name, surname, email and signature
- Position of the person who writes the note