Netherlands Fellowship Programs (NFP)
The Netherlands
Fellowship Programmes (relaunced as Orange Knowledge Programme) promote
capacity building within organizations within 51 countries by providing
fellowships for training and education for students.
The NFP was
started and funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Thefellowship
has 3 sub programs for individual fellowships:
1- Short courses
2- Master’s
degree programmes
3- PhD studies
Key Objectives
To increase the
number and the competencies of skilled staff at a wide range of government and
non-government organizations.
Fellowships are
further prioritized as follows:
50% of the
budget is Sub Saharan Africa applicants.
50% of
fellowships female applicants.
The
fellowship: This can be supplemented with the salary that the fellow should
continue to receive during the study period