US EMBASSY ANNOUNCES HUMPHREY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

18.05.2006 [10:51]
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The US Embassy to Azerbaijan has announced Humphrey fellowship program 2007-2008 for mid-career professional development in the United States.

The Humphrey Fellowship Program provides mid-career professionals from designated countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Europe and Eurasia with an opportunity to enhance their professional capabilities through participation in specialized, 10-month, non-degree programs developed specifically for small clusters of Humphrey Fellows at selected U.S. universities. The Humphrey Program was initiated in 1978 to honor the memory and accomplishments of the late Senator and Vice President, Hubert H. Humphrey.

Fellows are selected based on their potential for national leadership and commitment to public service, in either the public or private sector. The program provides a basis for establishing long-lasting productive partnerships and relationships between citizens of the United States and their professional counterparts in other countries, fostering an exchange of knowledge and mutual understanding throughout the world.

Funding for the Humphrey Program is provided by the U.S. government through the United States Department of State and other co-sponsors.

Eligible fields for the program are as follows: natural resources and environmental management, public policy analysis and public administration, economic development, agricultural development/agricultural economics, finance and banking, human resource management, urban and regional planning, drug abuse education, treatment, and prevention, public health policy and management, technology policy and management, educational planning and administration, law and human rights, communications/journalism, teaching of English as a foreign language, HIV/AIDS policy and prevention, trafficking of persons, prevention and policy.

US EMBASSY ANNOUNCES HUMPHREY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

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