IAF Grassroots Development Fellowship Program

Description: Establishing in 1969, Inter American Foundation fellowships offers to a person who is going to have advanced PhD candidacy in any university in the United States. The aim of the fellowship is to provide support to those individual who is willing to conduct any dissertation research in Latin America or Caribbean related with the grassroots topic and the duration should be June to May in a year.

Scholarship Provider: Universities in the United States of America.

Area of Study: The assigned disciplines are mentioned below:

  1. Social Sciences
  2. Physical Sciences
  3. Technical fields
  4. Professions as related with any grassroots development issues.

Benefit of the Scholarship: The benefits to have this fellowship are given below:

  1. Research allowance up to $3000 in between four to twelve months
  2. $1500 stipend in between four to twelve months
  3. International round trip if the fellowship holder needs to travel in research site
  4. Health insurance during the fellowship
  5. The fellowship will offer to attend in a mid-year conference.

 

Eligibility: The candidate should have following criteria to be selected under this program:

  1. Phd candidates who are enrolled under any university of USA and are citizen of United States or Latin America or Caribbean countries except Cuba.
  2. Before applying to the fellowship, the candidate will have to do PhD in Social Science or Physical Science or Technical field or issues related with any grassroots development in USA or Latin America or Caribbean countries.

How to Apply: The process to apply for the fellowship is:

  1. Collect all the required documents
  2. Fill up the prescribed from available in website.
  3. Enroll in any USA university to be eligible for the fellowship
  4. Submit the papers

Contact: To have more information visit the below official website:   http://www.iie.org/Programs/IAF-Grassroots-Development-Fellowship-Program