Joint Japan World Bank Scholarship

Apply for the Joint Japan World Bank Scholarship! Scholarships are offered by the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC), which supports the organization’s aim of developing innovative strategies for capacity building and knowledge exchange in developing countries.

It is a crucial part of the countries Bank’s initiatives to support economic growth and shared prosperity by funding human resource development, capacity building, and education in the developing countries.

Since 1982, the DEC’s scholarship programmes have contributed to the formation of a pool of more than 6,000 development experts and scholars, altering their nations and having a positive impact on future generations.

The Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Programme (JJ/WBGSP) is open to women and men from developing countries who are applying to master’s degree programmes in development-related fields and who have relevant professional experience and a history of helping their countries’ development efforts.

• Degree level: master’s
• Deadline: 28 February/26 May 2023 (annual)
• Study in: Selected nations
• The academic year: 2023–2024
• Host Institutions/Programs of Study: The JJWBGSP grants scholarships to universities in the United States, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and Japan for Participating Programmes.
• Target Awardees: Nationals of developing nations who are also citizens of World Bank member countries.

Scholarship Worth/Components and Duration:

The Joint Japan World Bank Scholarship offers the following advantages to the recipient:

• At the beginning of your study programme and immediately following the conclusion of the scholarship period, economy class air travel from your home country to the host university is included. Scholars will also get two round-trip airline tickets as well as a $500 US travel reimbursement for each trip.
• Your graduate program’s tuition and the price of your university-provided basic health insurance.
• A monthly subsistence grant to cover all living costs (housing, food, etc., including books) while on campus throughout the scholarship period. Depending on the host nation, the allowance varies in size.

Please be aware that all JJ/WBGSP scholarships only cover the first two years of the graduate programme.

What is not included in the graduates Joint Japan World Bank Scholarship:

• Application fees for visas
• Costs associated with supporting and/or bringing a scholar’s family.
• Extracurricular training or courses.
• Courses that don’t have enough credits to qualify for a graduate degree.
• The graduate programme doesn’t offer any language instruction.
• Additional travel during the course of the study programme.
• Costs associated with internships, field excursions, workshops/seminars, additional books for the classroom, or research; or
• Equipment used in education, such as computers.
• Permit charge for residents.

The JJ/WBGSP scholarship is not intended to replace any other financial aid or fellowship that you may be receiving; rather, it is intended to augment it. If you have other scholarship funding sources, you must inform and provide documentation to the JJ/WBGSP at the time you are told that you are a semi-finalist or if you are awarded a scholarship.

Eligibility for the Joint Japan World Bank Scholarship

The candidates for this Joint Japan World Bank Scholarship must satisfy the following prerequisites:

• Possess citizenship from one of the nations listed here.
• Not possess dual citizenship in any advanced nation.
• Possess good health.
• Possess a bachelor’s degree (or its equivalent) that was earned at least three years before the application deadline.
• Have a Bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree and at least three years of recent job experience in development.
• Be working in a paid, full-time position doing development-related work at the time you submit your scholarship application. possess a bachelor’s degree (or an equivalent university degree) that you earned no more than 3 years ago and that you obtained no more than 6 years prior to the application deadline.
• Being accepted unconditionally (aside from funding) to at least one of the JJ/WBGSP participating master’s programmes outside of the applicant’s country of citizenship and country of residence listed when the call for scholarship applications opens on or before the scholarship application deadline date. Before submitting your application, you must upload the letter of admission.
• Not be an Executive Director, his/her alternate, and/or staff of any type of appointment of the World Bank Group or a close relative of the aforementioned by blood or adoption with the term “close relative” defined as: Mother, Father, Sister, Half-sister, Brother, Half-brother, Son, Daughter, Aunt, Uncle, Niece, or Nephew.

Also Read: University Of Montreal Scholarship Program For International Students 2023-2024

Application Guidelines

You must first apply and be unconditionally accepted for admission to at least one of the Participating Programmes in order to be eligible for a JJ/WBGSP scholarship. YOU MUST UPLOAD AN UNCONDITIONAL LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE FROM A PARTICIPATING MASTER’S PROGRAMME in your application. Once the scholarship is available, applications are submitted online. Depending on the participating programme, there are 2 application windows:

• First Application Window
– Beginning at 12:00 Washington time on January 16, 2023, and ending on February 28, 2023
– JJWBGSP Participating Programs accepting applications under Window #1

• Second Application Window
– Between March 27 and May 26, 2023, at noon, Washington time
– JJWBGSP Participating Programs accepting applications under Window #2

Selection Process

The JJ/WBGSP employs the following procedure to evaluate qualifying scholarship applications from citizens of poor countries with the goal of selecting the applicants with the greatest potential to have an impact on their countries’ development after completing their graduate studies.

Each eligible application is evaluated independently by two competent assessors, who then rate each application on a scale of 1 to 10, taking into account four key elements and the degree of interdependence between them:

• Professional Experience Quality (30% weight)
• Professional Recommendation Quality ( 30% Weight)
• Quality of Your Home Country Commitment (30% weight)
• Background education level quality (10% weight)

The JJ/WBGSP Secretariat chooses the finalists based on the following criteria and the average score of the two assessors:

• keeping the regional distribution of awards fairly diverse
• preserving a fair distribution of rewards by gender
• When evaluating the employment experience and other aspects of an application, take into account unusual circumstances or hardships.
• Awardsing bursaries to candidates who, other things being equal, have little access to funding for international graduate studies.

The Joint Japan World Bank Scholarship Steering Committee, which is made up of members of the World Bank Board of Directors and WB management, receives the finalist list for the Participating Programme scholarship from the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat for approval. Soon after the JJWBG Steering Committee’s approval, winners are contacted.

Visit the Application Guidelines official website (link provided below) as soon as possible for comprehensive instructions on how to apply for this scholarship.

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