2015 Global Development Conference Essay Competition for Young Students from the MENA region

As part of its 16th Annual Global Development Conference, GDN organizes an essay competition with the support of Economic Research Forum (ERF). This competition is dedicated to young students from the MENA region who are between 21 and 29 years old.

It aims at selecting 20 students who will be invited to attend the Conference from 11 to 13 June in Morocco.

Participants have to write an essay of 2000- 2500 words on the following subject: Rural Development Strategies in the MENA Region. Submissions will be judged for both their analytical rigor and their quality of exposition and written expression.

Eligibility

Age: students who are between 21 and 29 years old (on 10 June 2015) are eligible to apply.
Countries: participants must be registered in a university from one of the countries mentioned in the following list: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey,United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Past grantees and individuals that have been awarded a prize by GDN (including the finalists of the 2014 essay competition invited in Accra) are not eligible to apply.
Only individual submissions will be considered.

Benefits:
Travel and accommodation costs will be bear by the organizers.
The selected students will have the opportunity
(i) to attend the Conference and interact with seasoned researchers, civil society representative and policy makers,
(ii) to interact with each other and make new contacts,
(iii) and to attend a specific workshop tailored for them (the day before the Conference) so that they present their ideas to a high level panel.

Application Deadline: 10 April, 2015 http://goo.gl/adLsId