{"id":257755,"date":"2023-04-19T00:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T22:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/yali-alumnus-launches-advocacy-leadership-institute?lang=en"},"modified":"2023-04-19T00:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T22:23:48","slug":"yali-alumnus-launches-advocacy-leadership-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/yali-alumnus-launches-advocacy-leadership-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"YALI Alumnus Launches Advocacy Leadership Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c8e1372a80256f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c8e1372a80256f0\" alt=\"U.S. Embassy in Madagascar\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/c8e1372a80256f0\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=251171&amp;press_source=U.S. Embassy in Madagascar\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our 2017 YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF) alumnus Mathieu Rabarinirina for his selection as the 2022 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) award winner.&nbsp; AEIF is a U.S.-government funded global competition through which alumni can qualify for up to 25,000 USD to implement projects that address global challenges facing their local communities.&nbsp; Since its creation in 2011, AEIF has supported nearly 500 alumni-led projects around the world.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Counselor for Political, Economic and Commercial Affairs Jules Kim delivered opening remarks at the official launch of the AEIF Advocacy Leadership Institute, a community-based project that seeks to build civil society capacity and develop partnership agreements with local authorities to advance human rights, on April 7, 2023, at American Corner Antananarivo.&nbsp; The Advocacy Leadership Institute (ALI) will be implemented by Alternatives Madagascar, an organization Rabarinirina founded upon his return from the YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy in Madagascar.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo Congratulations to our 2017 YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF) alumnus Mathieu Rabarinirina for his selection as the 2022 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) award winner.&nbsp; AEIF is a U.S.-government funded global competition through which alumni can qualify for up to 25,000 USD to implement projects that address global challenges facing their local communities.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-257755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/yali-alumnus-launches-advocacy-leadership-institute.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}