The Community Solutions Program (CSP) is a professional development program for the best and brightest global community leaders working on issues related to the environment, tolerance and conflict resolution, transparency and accountability, and women and gender. Community Solutions is a year-long program that includes a four-month fellowship at a U.S. community-based organization, government office or legislative body.
Contact: csp@irex.org
Participants must:
Albania, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burma, Cambodia, Colombia, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives
Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Palestinian Territories, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Competition for the Community Solutions Program is merit-based and candidates will be considered without respect to race, color, religion, national origin, or gender. Semifinalists will also be required to take an English language exam or submit recent TOEFL or IELTS scores. After the interviews, finalists and alternates will be selected, pending their performance on their English language exam.
Applicants will be considered based on the following criteria: