Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Oceania, Continent, Education, Master's, Scholarships Posted by admin | Jan 7, 2023
The Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP) is open to nationals of specific developing nations who are submitting applications to master's degree programs in development-related fields and who have relevant professional experience as well as a history of supporting their countries' development efforts.
JJWBGSP offers scholarships for 45 Participating Master's Programs at 27 universities in the United States, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and Japan, subject to funding availability, in essential development fields such infrastructure management, tax policy, and economic policy management.
Please be aware that you cannot apply for a JJWBGSP Scholarship in 2023 if you are not accepted into one of these 45 Participating Master's Programs.
The subsequent application procedure will be split into two waves in order to fit the JJWBGSP Participating Programs' academic schedules:
First application window
2023-01-16 to 2023-02-28 at 12:00 p.m. Washington time
Applications are being accepted for JJWBGSP Participating Programs through Window #1.
From March 27 until May 26, 2023, at noon, Washington time, Application Widow #2
Applications are being accepted for JJWBGSP Participating Programs through Window #2.
Please be aware that there will be specific application requirements for 3 Participating Programs in 2023.
After receiving their degrees, developing country scholars pledge to go back home and use their newly acquired knowledge to aid in the social and economic development of their own nations.
Tuition, a monthly living allowance, round-trip travel costs, health insurance, and travel reimbursement are all included in the advantages of a JJWBGSP scholarship. View a comprehensive list of benefits.
Who may submit an application?
How to Apply Selection Process Benefits of Scholarship
Who may submit an application?
The Application Guidelines for each call for applications provide information on the eligibility requirements in full, and these requirements are scrupulously complied with. Nothing is exempted.
In general, nationals of Developing Countries are required to:
be a citizen of one of the developing nations on this list that is a World Bank member;
not possess dual citizenship with any advanced nation;
remain healthy;
possess a Bachelor's (or comparable) degree that was acquired at least three years before the application deadline;
possess a Bachelor's (or equivalent) degree and three years or more of recent job experience in the development sector;
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. For information on how to calculate eligible part-time employment toward this three-year requirement, please read FAQs—Window 1. For a suggested list of development-related subjects, please read Annex 2 of the Application Guidelines. Only individuals from developing nations who are citizens of a nation on the list of fragile and conflict-ridden states found in Annex 3 of the Application Guidelines are exempt from this requirement. In these unique situations, we do take into account the Be admitted unconditionally (aside from funding) for the following academic year to at least one of the JJ/WBGSP participating master's programs located outside of the applicant's country of citizenship and country of residence listed at the time the call for scholarship applications opens. Employment opportunities in those nations listed in Annex 3. Before submitting your application, you must upload the letter of admission. To learn more, go to "How to Apply."
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 (defined as a parent, sibling, half-sibling, brother, half-brother, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew) of any of the aforementioned by blood or adoption also nephew.
Please be aware that all qualifying requirements are rigorously followed. Nothing is exempted. During an open call for applications, eligibility requirements WILL NOT change. However, between the end of one application procedure and the start of the next, this information is liable to alter.
How to Use
Application Guidelines for 2023
FAQs for the 2023 Window 1 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 (Weight: 30%)
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
Maintaining a fair distribution of rewards by gender; Considering unusual circumstances or challenges while evaluating an applicant's employment history and other application components;
awarding scholarships to candidates who, other things being equal, do not have easy access to funding for graduate studies researches overseas.
The JJ/WBG 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 Program scholarship from the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat for approval. Soon after the JJWBG Steering Committee's approval, winners are contacted.
Scholarship Advantages
The JJ/WBGSP scholarship offers the following advantages to the recipient:
At the beginning of your study program and shortly 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 flights as well as a $500 US travel reimbursement for each journey;
Your graduate program's tuition and the price of your university-provided basic health insurance.
During the scholarship period, a monthly subsistence grant to cover all living costs is provided while on school (accommodations, food, etc., including books). 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 program.
What is not included in the JJ/WBGSP 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;
Additional travel during the study program; The graduate program does not include language training;
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.
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