AERC Ph.D. Economics Scholarship Program – If you are a professional economist, then you need to read this post. It is very important information for all the economists from both the Francophone and the Anglophone countries in the continent of Africa.
This is an invitation to economists who want to further their profession at the Ph.D. level. The consortium is inviting all interested candidates to pick up a scholarship form for its Ph.D. Scholarship Program for the 2024/2025 academic session.
So in this post, concerned individuals will get full details about the scholarship program. This includes the requirements, eligibility criteria, the application deadline, documents required, how to apply, and the affiliating Universities of the scholarship program.
A Brief History Of AERC
What does the term AERC stand for? It means African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) is an economic capacity-building institution that has been in active business since 1988, although, it was originally founded in 1980.
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) is an institution that helps in making informed economic policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The institution came to being when a group of Africans came to the knowledge that there is a disconnect between economic policy-making and economic research in sub-Saharan Africa.
AERC PhD Economics Scholarship Program (2023 Application)
Right now, the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), is inviting qualified and interested candidates to submit their applications, as it has commenced the collection of acceptance of applications from candidates for the 2023/2024 academic session.
Affiliated Universities Offering The PhD Programme
The economic scholarship program of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), has an affiliation with top-notch Universities in the world, where applicants will undergo their programs. The Universities below are the list of the institutions that the consortium is affiliated with.
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- University of Nairobi, Kenya
- University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- University of Benin, Nigeria
- University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon
- University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
- Félix Houphouet-Boigny University, Côte d’Ivoire
AERC Scholarship Application Procedure
What are the steps that interested applicants are to follow in the course of applying for the scholarship?
Interested applicants are to direct their applications to their choice of institution, from the list of universities above. Then the procedures for application in the various institutions are in the institution’s portal, so applicants are to log into the portal for the application procedure of their university choice.
AERC Application Requirements/Qualification
What are the qualifications and the requirements that applicants need to meet before they can be qualified to apply for the AERC scholarship program?
- Ensure that you have already applied to any of the Universities listed for the CCP scholarship, and be sure that you have been granted admission to that university, that is the first criterion.
- The second condition is that applicants must ensure that they obtain a Second Class Honours (Upper Division) in their results.
- Applicants must be holders of master’s degrees in Economics, Agricultural Economics in a relevant field, from a recognized institution.
- The candidates’s master’s degree must have coursework and its component, The area of coverage of such coursework includes the following microeconomics, macroeconomics, quantitative methods, and econometrics;
- Applicants who have a publication in a recognized journal will be an added advantage
- Candidates must show evidence that they have been involved in any of the following economic management, research, and/or training in the public sector.
- Candidates from post-conflict and fragile states, especially females, (for the AERC Ph.D. Bridge Programme alumni class of 2017 and 2018) are free to apply for the scholarship
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Documents Required for Upload
After a successful application, those candidates who have been offered admission will be given an admission letter, the admission letter signifies that such candidate can proceed with other admission processing.
However, some documents successfully admitted candidates are required to submit or upload immediately after they are offered admission, they are: as follows:
- Application Cover Letter
- Curriculum Vitae
- Evidence of Admission
- Certified Transcripts and Certificates
AERC Application Deadline
When will the AERC application window close? The application has been ongoing for a long time now, and it will come to an end on the 31st of August, 2024. So if you know that you are interested in applying for the scholarship, please rush now and apply before the deadline.
Further Information
For more information about the AERC scholarship, log into the official portal at https://training.aercafrica.org/admissionnewv
Conclusion
The AERC PhD scholarship program has come to build professionalism in the field of economics, and you don’t have to be left out in this program. The outcome will bring meaningful changes and transformation in the economic sectors of those countries that had their citizens in attendance.
