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Agenda 2063 in Power Spaces - Cohort 3
Host entity: United Nations Development Programme
Application deadline: 03/09/2026
Mission and objectives
UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so countries can sustain progress. As the UN’s development agency, UNDP plays a critical role in helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Through the Agenda 2063 Academy, UNDP, P4D, AUC, and partners in the Technical Working Group on Agenda 2063 supports learning, practice and collaboration around Africa's long-term transformation. Agenda 2063 in Power Spaces is a seven-week online traineeship that helps participants move from understanding Agenda 2063 as a continental framework to locating and strengthening their own contribution to The Africa We Want.
The programme is built around the proposition that Africa's future will be shaped through millions of everyday Power Spaces—governments, businesses, universities, communities, development organizations, schools, families, professional networks and other environments in which people make decisions and create value.
The traineeship therefore seeks to strengthen individual agency for Agenda 2063: from knowing Agenda 2063 to seeing oneself as an agent capable of helping deliver it.
Assignment context
Agenda 2063 provides a long-term vision for The Africa We Want. Translating that vision into reality requires more than knowledge of the continental framework. It requires people across Africa and beyond to recognize the Power Spaces available to them and deliberately use those spaces to create value.
Agenda 2063 in Power Spaces - Cohort 3 will provide participants with a structured seven-week leadership journey.
Participants progressively develop seven leadership tools:
1. Contribution Statement - What value do I create?
Participants locate themselves within Africa's transformation and identify the value they create through their Power Space.
2. Moonshot - What future am I committed to creating?
Participants articulate a sufficiently consequential future to challenge the gravitational pull of present circumstances.
3. Delivery - What must change?
Participants identify the critical shifts required between present reality and their desired future.
4. Leadership Values - Who must I be?
Participants identify the values required to guide consequential choices during the journey.
5. Leadership Routines - What must I repeatedly do?
Participants translate intention into repeated practices capable of accumulating into results.
6. Letter from the Future - What does life look like because I succeeded?
Participants experience their desired future as a lived reality and use that future to reconsider present choices.
7. Future Review - What have I learned - and what should I now revise?
Participants develop the practice of Return → Review → Revise → Recommit, enabling them to continue using the tools after the formal traineeship ends.
The programme therefore seeks to become more than a seven-week training experience. It is designed as a leadership practice for the journey to 2063. Participants retain their Leadership Portfolio and Letter from the Future and are encouraged to return to them periodically as their experience, capabilities and Power Spaces evolve. This seven-tool architecture is explicit in the Reader's final synthesis.
Cohort 3 will also contribute to improving and testing the learning materials, facilitation approaches and participant experience required to make this practice accessible to increasingly large numbers of people.
Task description
Online Volunteers will experience learning Agenda 2063 in Power Spaces - Cohort 3. The Online Volunteers will:
1- Study and become familiar with the Agenda 2063 in Power Spaces learning materials, including the Reader and associated learning resources.
2- Support participant engagement during the seven-week traineeship, including understanding the weekly concepts, questions and exercises.
3- Engage in small-group learning conversations, where assigned, encouraging participants to connect the tools to their own Power Spaces rather than simply reproduce course content.
4- Contribute to a structured end-of-cohort review, identifying what worked and what could strengthen future cohorts.
Online Volunteers will work remotely.
The assignment does not require volunteers to be experts on every aspect of Agenda 2063. It requires curiosity, disciplined engagement with the provided materials, willingness to learn, and the ability to support other people to translate ideas into their own contexts.
Skills and experience
Candidates should demonstrate:
1- Strong interest in Agenda 2063, African development, leadership, development practice, public policy, business, education, community development or related fields;
2- Ability to read and engage critically with learning materials;
3- Strong written and interpersonal communication skills;
4- Ability to provide concise and constructive feedback;
5- Commitment to completing the assignment throughout the Cohort 3 period.
Applications are welcomed from professionals, practitioners, researchers, entrepreneurs, educators, students and community leaders across different sectors and Power Spaces.
Full eligibility requirements, conditions of service and application instructions are available on the official UNV platform.