Dear NL alumnus,

If you had € 3000 to spend on something that would aid your community, what would you do with it? Organise a workshop? Design a social media campaign?  Create a vlog with community leaders? Share your ideas for interventions on Security and Rule of Law in Nuffic’s Alumni design challenge! 

Can I join?
Sure thing! The design challenge is open to all NL alumni from Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia and Uganda. Individuals and groups of alumni are welcome to join. You should be a professional working on Security and Rule of Law or closely related topics (or you aspire to become one) to participate in the challenge.

What’s in it for me?
Apart from the honour of creating a great intervention for your community and working on the intervention together with experts in the field, the 6 winners will also receive an individual reward of € 3.000 to put their idea into practise. That means besides a budget to implement the concept, you will be linked with experts from the Netherlands and the Horn of Africa in the field of Security and Rule of Law. We expect participation of (Dutch) business communities, public and private sector partners and of course knowledge institutions from all countries involved. You get to exchange on academic and professional level and link with other alumni as well. The winning ideas will be presented during an online conference on November 4^th.

Sounds good, so what do I need to do?
Not much! We have set up a survey that you can use as template for your intervention. This survey describes the following: What type of intervention do you have in mind? What is the expected impact of the intervention? Who could be of assistance? Of course, the creation of the intervention and actual implementation is in your hands. But you can find the outline here: https://www.nuffic.nl/en/alumni-challenge-2021-horn-of-africa

The deadline for sending in interventions is October 4^th at 12.00hrs (CET).

We are looking forward to receiving your idea. Good luck!


On behalf of,

NAAs of Kenya and Uganda

Nuffic