African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) Fellowship Awards – Research Fellowships and Opportunities

The African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) programme, hosted by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), offers fellowship opportunities to scholars and practitioners in peacebuilding, development and state-society relations across Africa. It provides research fellowships, doctoral funding, training, conferences, seminars and outreach activities to support early- to mid-career scholars and African doctoral students at different stages of their development. The programme includes Individual Research Fellowship, Research Policy Fellowship and three Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships designed to support various stages of doctoral research and policy engagement.

Support for field-based research, dissertation development, and policy-engagement activities across multiple fellowship pathways.

Open to early- to mid-career scholars, practitioners and African doctoral students at different stages of their academic and professional development.

Applications are submitted through the official SSRC APDD awards and fellowships portal.