Funding Opportunities at The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI)

The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) is an initiative of the United States Department of State. It was begun in 2010 by President Barack Obama. YALI is a programme aimed at educating and networking young African leaders with activities including the Mandela Washington Fellowship which brings them to study in the United States for six weeks, with follow-up resources, and student exchange programs.In 2014, the program was expanded to include four regional "leadership centers" in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and South Africa.

As part of efforts to decentralize and to reach a lot of young leaders, the Young African Leaders Initiative program created regional leadership centers across Africa known as the YALI Regional Leadership Center (RLC).Participants of the Regional Leadership Centers go through online and in-person training and are provided with professional development opportunities in these three track areas; Business and Entrepreneurship, Civil Society Management and Public Policy and Management.