Implementing agency: the Mandela Rhodes Foundation
Project duration: 2007 – 2011
Total amount allocated: NOK 17,5 mill.
The purpose and goals of the project are to:
• Contribute to the fulfilment of the overarching mission of the MRF: to build exceptional leadership capacity in Africa, by providing excellent educational and training opportunities to individual Africans with leadership potential, as well as by creating over time a network of well- rounded leaders of talent, effectiveness and integrity across African society.
• Make a strategic contribution to the fight against HIV and AIDS in Africa, by aiming to recruit 15 students by 2011 directed towards areas relevant to HIV and AIDS within social and medical sciences, thereby building increased awareness and knowledge about the HIV/AIDS epidemic among future leaders.
• Contribute to the vision of the Mandela Rhodes Scholarships Programme: to bring into being by 2015 a considerable network of leaders, with different educational expertise but similar leadership capacity, who support and inspire each other and who are distinguished by their ability to facilitate individual and social development, promote peace and reconciliation, pursue fundamental human freedoms and promote prosperity and respect for the continent and its people.
The Project aligns with the philosophy, administrative systems and implementation cycle of the Mandela Rhodes Scholarships Programme. Each tertiary institution nominates students annually based on the criteria of the Mandela Rhodes Scholarships Programme. Candidates nominated must be intending to do an Honours or Masters Degree in any field, on a full time basis. Socio- cultural and gender aspects are taken into consideration in selection process.