The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) 2025 for African-born Academics (Fully Funded)

Application Deadline: September 18, 2024.

Applications are now open for the 2025 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program. The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions. Offered by IIE, the program is funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY). A total of 705 African Diaspora Fellowships have been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013. CADFP exemplifies CCNY’s enduring commitment to higher education in Africa. IIE manages and administers the program, including applications, project requests and fellowships.

Scholar Eligibility

To be eligible for the CADFP, an African-born diaspora scholar must:

1. Have been born in any African country, as evidenced by the biographical data in the scholar’s passport;
2. Live in the United States or Canada;
3. Hold a terminal degree; and 
4. Be employed full-time at an accredited college or university in the United States or Canada.

Fellowship Benefits

African-born Diaspora Fellows receive the following:

1. a $150/day stipend
2. visa costs (if required)
3. supplemental health insurance coverage
4. round-trip international air travel and ground transportation costs to and from the scholar’s home to the North American airport
5. potential opportunities to apply for supplemental funding to cover knowledge production activities and workshop attendance.

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a fellowship program for African institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and member institutions of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and partner universities with the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) to host an African-born scholar to work on projects in research collaboration, graduate student teaching/mentoring and curriculum co-development. The application process has two parts.

Projects and scholars submitted to the CADFP are evaluated through a three-tiered review process.

• Tier One–Technical Review:  This process is conducted by IIE staff and confirms that the host institution and scholar are eligible to participate in the CADFP, and that all application materials have been submitted.  Incomplete applications may be given time to submit required materials.
• Tier Two–Discipline and Regional Review:  Eligible project-scholar packages are assigned to committees made up of scholars representing an array of disciplines, all of whom have experience working in academic systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Disciplinary committees either recommend applicants for final selection, or do not recommend them, in which case the project goes no further and will not be funded.  Notifications are sent to all hosts and scholar applicants informing them of the recommendation status of their submissions.
• Tier Three–Advisory Council Selection:  The Advisory Council of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program reviews all recommended projects and scholars and makes the final selection of which projects will receive CADFP funding.  IIE makes notifications to all projects and scholars that had been recommended as to the final status of their applications.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program