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Application Closes: 23th Auguts 2025
Application Opens: 23th June 2025
What is the FLA Programme?
The Fempower Leadership Ambassador Programme 2025 - 2026 is a fully-funded, 4-month skills training and incubation experience to help you build your skills and your own project to transform agrifood systems and advance gender equality. Application is free and the programme is 100% tuition-free.
Whether you’re an educator, entrepreneur, or changemaker regardless gender, age, or background—no prior experience is needed to apply. Upon successful completion of the programme you’ll also be eligible—if you choose—to receive official accreditation to represent the Fempower brand in your region to launch your own local Fempower Chapter, deliver bootcamps, and organise events under a royalty-free licence.
To keep the programme accessible and sustainable, selected applicants will be asked to contribute a one-time admin fee $20 USD for participants from the Global South. This small fee helps us cover certificate issuance, platform access, and translation resources.
The programme includes 12 expert-led masterclasses (1 per week) covering our six priority areas, from food systems, biodiversity conservation, agroecology, regenerative agriculture, plant-based innovation, food tech, biodiversity credit markets, to rural womens education in agrifood systems, among others.
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FLA Programme Information
The programme includes an incubation project in one of six priority areas. Through 6 hands-on bootcamp workshops, you'll apply the Fempower methodology, an edutainment approach using games, boardgames, and gamification to bring your project to life and experience the entrepreneurial journey in a fun, practical way.
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Earn a Skills Certificate in Agrifood Systems Transformation — plus a Specialisation Certificate as a Fempower Leadership Ambassador, trained in our Entrepreneurial Methodology for Gender Equality, when you successfully complete the programme and present your project in your chosen focus area. Boost your credentials while driving real change on the ground.
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FLA Application Form Guidance
The FLA Programme at a Glance
What is the FLA Programme really about?
At its heart, the Fempower Leadership Ambassador Programme is a leadership and education training experience. It’s designed for people who want to become changemakers in women’s empowerment—especially in rural communities.
The selected cohort of Leadership Ambassadors will focus on transforming agrifood systems—because empowering rural women goes hand-in-hand with changing the way we grow, share, and consume food. By tackling agrifood systems, we address the real challenges rural women face every day, while helping build local economies that are more just, sustainable, and resilient.
Through the programme:
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You’ll learn how to educate, lead, and support women to become entrepreneurs and agents of change.
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You’ll explore six key areas that connect that with agrifood system transformation.
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You’ll then develop your own project, choosing the area that matters most to you and your community.
So while the methodology is rooted in women’s empowerment, this year’s pilot edition offers a hands-on, practical path to apply that empowerment in the field of agrifood systems. Fempower prepares you to lead. Agrifood systems give you the real-world challenge to practice that leadership. Together, they create meaningful change.
The FLA Programme is a fully-funded, 4-month skills training and incubation experience designed to support emerging leaders who want to drive real change by advancing women’s empowerment and transforming agrifood systems. You’ll gain access to our newly updated Fempower methodology—rooted in years of practice and impact across Mexico—and learn how to apply it to your own context and community.
What’s in it for you?
As a selected Fempower Leadership Ambassador, you’ll receive:
✔️ A 3-month Skill-Building Programme
✔️ A 1-month Project Incubation Sprint
✔️ Full access to the Fempower Methodology
You’ll also have the optional opportunity to:
✔️ Launch your own Fempower Chapter Project in your country
✔️ Use the Fempower methodology in your work
✔️ Organise Fempower Bootcamps and events
✔️ Pay no licence fees or royalties—ever
This is your project. Your leadership. Your impact.
Fempower gives you the platform. You bring it to life.
Programme Format
The FLA runs over four months and culminates in an online Graduation Ceremony. While session recordings will be available for flexibility, participants are expected to attend at least 80% of the live sessions to make the most of the experience.
Choose 1 of the 6 Programme Priority Areas
What will you work on?
You will explore six key areas that connect that with agrifood system transformation. Then You will develop your own project, choosing the area that matters most to you and your community.
1. Empowerment of Rural Women in Agrifood Systems Transformation. This category is for projects that put rural women at the centre—amplifying their leadership, rights, and economic power to reshape local food systems. If you work directly with women in farming, food, or land-based livelihoods, this might be your space.
2. Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship for Agrifood Systems Transformation. If your project is about improving how food is produced, distributed, or consumed—especially through innovative ideas, technology, entrepreneurship, community-based initiatives or new business models—this category is for you. We welcome initiatives focused on regenerative practices, nature-based solutions, biodiversity entrepreneurship, conservation entrepreneurship, among others. The goal is to shift away from extractive systems and drive the transformation of agrifood systems toward more sustainable, inclusive, and regenerative models.
3. Biodiversity Conservation for Regenerative Agrifood Systems. This category is for projects that protect, restore, or enhance biodiversity—whether that’s preserving native seeds, reviving pollinator populations, regenerating landscapes, or working with Indigenous ecological knowledge to ensure our food systems are rich in life and resilience.
4. Food Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Plant-Based Solutions for Regenerative Agrifood Systems. Are you working on healthy, sustainable food? This category is for projects that promote plant-based diets, food justice, or culinary innovation rooted in cultural or ecological wellbeing. It could be a product, a recipe, an education campaign, or a business—what matters is that how can we feed people without destroying the ecosystems that make food possible?
5. Creative and Cultural Industries for Systemic Change in Agrifood Systems. This space is for changemakers using artistic expression—art, music, design, or cultural heritage—to inspire new food narratives, shift behaviours, and transform how people relate to food and nature.
6. Educational Toolkits & Learning Strategies for Systemic Change in Agrifood Systems. If your work is about building awareness and knowledge—through digital and physical toolkits, boardgames, workshops, digital platforms, or educational programmes for schools, incubators or ecosystems—this category is for you. Education is a powerful force for change, and we welcome tools that teach, engage, and empower.
How to Navigate the Application Form?
The application is divided into three main sections:
1. About You
This section includes multiple-choice questions and basic personal
information to help us understand your background and context.
2. About Your Project
Here, you’ll find a mix of tick-box options and two short-answer questions:
○ A brief description of your project or idea (max. 150 words)
○ A project title that best represents your work and helps identify your
application
3. About Your Leadership
○ This final section asks you to reflect on your leadership journey in a
response of up to 500 words.
○ You’ll also be asked to upload your CV (maximum 2–3 pages).
Please note: Each question in the form includes a brief instruction to help you answer clearly. These individual instructions will not appear in this overview PDF application form guidance but are available directly within the application form.
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Why Should I Join The FLA Programme?
Why should I join the FLA Programme?
As a Fempower Leadership Ambassador you will have the opportunity to develop your own project during the programme—this is the core focus of the FLA experience. Additionally, if you feel called to go further, you’ll have the optional opportunity to replicate the Fempower model in your country. This means you can create your own independent Fempower Chapter Project, with access to a perpetual, royalty-free licence to deliver Fempower Bootcamps, organise Fempower events, and use our brand to drive local impact. This offers a pathway to generate your own income using the Fempower brand—without paying any royalties or licence fees—while creating meaningful social change. You’ll be supported by your cohort of FLA, but your project will remain independently led by you, tailored to your community and vision.
Benefits include during the FLA Programme:
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Live online training & masterclasses led by global experts
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Personalised 1:1 mentoring in the final month to strengthen your project or idea
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Digital access to the fempower methodology guide
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Present your project on the Graduation Ceremony Demo Day
Exclusive Benefits for the FLA Alumni Network:
1. Join the first FLA global community for continued peer support. You may use the Fempower brand and endorsement to increase the visibility and credibility of your initiative. Gain lifetime access to the first FLA Network, connecting you with peers across the globe to exchange resources, knowledge, and mentorship.
3. Professional Recognition & Opportunities. Gain a Certificate in Leadership and Skills Training from international organisations and universities allies to strengthen your CV and boost your visibility when applying for jobs, fellowships, or further study, awarded upon successful completion of the programme.
5. A Collective Creation: The Fempower Legacy Book. All selected Ambassadors will be featured in the first official book, a collective anthology celebrating your story, project, or artwork. Each chapter will showcase your unique vision and impact as part of this inspiring first global cohort.