Good news for students and engineers in their final year of training in the fields of water and sanitation in Africa. For the academic year 2024-2025, they could benefit from a scholarship worth $1,000 per student, to carry out their research work. To do so, they will have to apply to the call for applications recently launched by the African Water and Sanitation Association (AfWASA), as part of its capacity-building program for African players in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector – AfWASA Capacity Building Program (AfriCap).
A total of 15 scholarships will be awarded to students across Africa.Applicants to the scholarship program will formulate their research topics in relation to one of the nine themes proposed in the call for applications, namely:Approaches to reducing non-revenue water in water utilities, Improving water quality control, Water services in low-income urban areas, Improving urban and peri-urban sanitation, Use of ICT (digitization) in water and sanitation services, Water resources management, Water, sanitation and gender, Circular economy, and Climate change. Indeed, many countries on the African continent still suffer cruelly from insufficient access to these essential services. And so research could help accelerate progress.
Students interested in this call for applications have until April 14, 2024 to apply. In addition to fulfilling all administrative formalities, “the applicant must above all be a citizen of a sub-Saharan African country eligible for funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)”, says the AfWASA. AfriCap is funded by USAID.
The list of AfWASA water and sanitation scholarship recipients for the 2024-2025 academic year will be published by June 15, 2024. All research work will have to be sanctioned by a scientific report, which can be exploited by players in the Wash sector as part of the implementation of projects, as well as by governments as part of the development of water, sanitation and hygiene management policies.
For more information on the call for applications, click here.
Inès Magoum