- Africa Threat Capability (ARC) Ltd. and Milliman Inc. have as soon as once more collaborated to provide two extra college students a chance to use for the Africa Scholarship Programme.
- The Africa Scholarship Programme will help college students who can not afford postgraduate research.
- Feminine college students are strongly inspired to use.
- Purposes will open on 1 December 2024 and shut on 31 March 2025.
Following the profitable launch of its postgraduate Scholarship Programme in 2023, Africa Threat Capability (ARC) Ltd. is collaborating with consulting and know-how agency Milliman Inc. once more to provide African college students one other probability to take part within the programme. Purposes will open on 1 December 2024 and shut on 31 March 2025.
ARC Ltd. CEO Lesley Ndlovu, who developed the programme together with Milliman Principal and Consulting Actuary Pleasure Schwartzman, understands the potential impression it may well have. “I used to be a beneficiary of a scholarship which was the muse of my profession. Working with Milliman to arrange our personal scholarship programme is my manner of contributing to increasing entry to alternatives for the following era,” he notes.
“The Africa Scholarship Programme goals to empower the following era of leaders who’re driving options to the continent’s local weather threats. It would help college students who can’t afford postgraduate research and encourage feminine college students to use, with the purpose of selling gender equality within the trade,” says Milliman Chief Sustainability and DEI Officer Christal Morris.
Final yr, 5 scholarships had been awarded to candidates from Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania and Togo.
Ange-Emmanuelle Gblaka from Côte d’Ivoire, Sandrine Dorvale Bassong Bayegle from Cameroon, and Kossi Mose Doumassi from Togo started their research on the Institut de Formation en Alternance pour les Générations Engagées (IFAGE) in Dakar, Senegal in January. Doreen Mulwa from Kenya and Maulid Seleman from Tanzania will embark on their tutorial journeys on the College of Cape City in 2025.
Subsequent yr, two new scholarships might be provided to qualifying candidates. These scholarships are particularly for college students who’ve gained admission to superior programmes in Actuarial Science, Threat Administration and Insurance coverage, or Agricultural Statistics. It covers full tuition, housing, dwelling stipends, and different important bills for as much as two years of full-time research at chosen universities in Africa, together with:
- École Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d’Économie Appliquée, ENSEA, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire;
- The Institut Interafricain de Formation en Assurance et en Gestion des Entreprises, IFAGE in Dakar, Sénégal;
- College of Cape City in South Africa
The programme aligns with ARC Ltd.’s necessary work in Africa, the place it has been providing catastrophe danger insurance coverage to member states since 2014, and in addition helps Milliman’s social accountability objectives. Milliman, which makes use of its actuarial experience and modelling frameworks to assist cut back danger in susceptible nations, will present the funding, whereas ARC Ltd. will implement the programme on the bottom, leveraging its relationships with African member states to make it a actuality.
Graduates may even get the chance to pursue their dream local weather careers. “We need to see these graduates succeed, and due to this fact ARC Ltd. and Milliman may even be offering internships to provide them a robust basis of their chosen careers and an immersion within the challenges of danger administration,” Ndlovu concludes.
Particulars of the scholarship will be discovered within the brochure and the applying varieties can be found on https://africanscholarship.org/.