Cash Prize: 5,000 USD

 Deadline: 31st Auguts 2025

Summary 

OWSD announces opportunities for early-career women scientists in the Global South focused on sustainable energy. The five awards will be distributed as follows: one for each of the four regions of the developing world (Africa, Arab region, Asia & the Pacific and Latin America & the Caribbean)

Requirements

1. Applicant must be a woman with a PhD certificate within 10 years before the deadline.

2. Applicant’s current research should demonstrate sustainable, affordable and reliable energy areas.

3. Applicant must have lived and worked for at least 5- 15 years in one of the 66 scientifically and technologically lagging  countries  (STLCs)

The List of STLCs 

• Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
• Arab Region: Djibouti, Palestine (West Bank & Gaza Strip), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen.
• Asia & Pacific: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Lao People’s Dem. Rep., Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
• Latin America & Caribbean: Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay.

For application guidelines and samples, click here

Interested candidates can click here to apply before the 31st of August.