Scholarships

The Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program 2024

Apply for the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP) 2024. This award program is devoted to candidates from assigned advancing nations. Candidates for the program often have a level of specialized skill and a record of accompanying their nation’s development actions. For one to be deemed, you must apply to study a master’s degree course in a development-associated subject.

Chosen candidates for the course will be selected from more than 48 qualified courses at different institutions in major development fields in the United States, Europe, Africa, Japan, and Oceania. Obtainable programs include economic policy management, infrastructure management, and tax policy. You must be accepted to one of the partaking courses to gain from the scholarship.

The scholarship will be obtainable for the complete period of your selected Masters program. After this program, you will devote yourself to returning to your home nation and putting the experience and specialties you have gathered into practice. This will be a considerable chance to contribute to your nation’s social and economic growth.

Advantages

If chosen for the program, the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program award will offer you with the following benefits:

  • You will obtain an economy-class flight ticket for a trip between your home nation and the host institution.
  • Scholars will also acquire a travel stipend worth $500 for every journey
  • The scholarship will protect your tuition for the chosen graduate degree course.
  • You will obtain protection for the expense of fundamental medical insurance acquired via the institution.
  • The scholars for the program will receive a monthly subsistence stipend to protect all living costs.

Qualification

  • You are required to be a citizen or national of one of the chosen World Bank member-advancing nations. These countries include Zimbabwe, Republic of Zambia, Yemen, Venezuela, RB West Bank and Gaza, Vanuata, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Uganda, Benin, Bhutan, Tuvalu, Tonga, Togo, Burkina Faso, Timor-Leste, Tanzania, Tajikistan, Nigeria, Haiti, Ghana, Burundi, Malawi, Cabo Verde, Sudan, Syrian, Arab Republic, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Liberia, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Rwanda, Niger, Nepal, Pakistan, Guyana, Guinea, Maldives, Madagascar, Papua, Mali, Guinea Bissau, Ethiopia and other nations.
  • Applicants are not required to handle dual nationality of any advanced nation.
  • Candidates are required to have a bachelor’s program or its equivalent. The program must have accomplished at least three years at the time of the application.
  • You must have gathered at least three years of work skills in a development-associated study area.
  • Applicants must be hired in a development-associated job in a reimbursed full-time role while presenting the scholarship application.
  • You are required to make an application and be accepted to a minimum of one of the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Programs, partaking in a master’s course at an institution situated outside your nation of nationality and country of residence.

Application

Candidates must first apply for one of the qualified Master’s degree courses at an institution outside their nations. You are required to secure your acceptance before the deadline for the Scholarship Application.

Upon receiving your acceptance letter, you must fill out and present your application form for the scholarship. Together with your application, you are required to submit the accompanying documents below:

  • Two letters of recommendation, presented online, from individuals who directly understand the candidate’s occupational work skills.
  • Documents that ascertain that you satisfy the qualification conditions with consideration to the number of years of current development associated job.
  • Your Bachelor’s degree course, and if relevant, also the diploma of your most progressed graduate program.
  • The candidate’s current curriculum vitae uses the structure offered in Annex 4 and is composed using English.
  • You are required to attach the unconditional admission letter for the upcoming educational year to the Joint Japan/ World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program partaking in the Master’s course.

Deadline: 29th February 2023