Funded Programs

Community Partners Leadership Fellows Program, Phase I: Scenarios from Africa

The Community Partners Leadership (CPL) Fellows Program provides fellowship opportunities at Emory to proven community leaders working for community-based organizations (CBOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) located in Africa. This fellowship program is unique in that it targets community leaders, who are typically not eligible to apply for traditional academic fellowships. The program helps small- and medium-sized CBOs/NGOs that are partnering with Emory to develop their capacity by training the community-based leaders who are essential to their success. CPL Fellows are selected from nominations from global health program partners working with Emory on specific projects. In Phase I of the program, the CPL Fellows are selected from a pre-existing pool of identified and experienced community leaders associated with the Scenarios from Africa (SfA) program. SfA is an HIV/AIDS communications process that has been underway since 1997. It is carried out in partnership with hundreds of local organizations in over 20 African countries. CPL Fellows remain at Emory between six weeks and five months, with each fellow’s program being individually designed so that it meets the specific needs of his or her CBO/NGO. However, common activities for Phase I CPL Fellows focus on building leadership skills and qualitative analysis research skills using SfA archives currently housed at Emory.

For more information, contact:
Kate Winskell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University
swinske@emory.edu

To view examples of SfA films, please click here.