The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), in collaboration with the Government of Grenada, invites suitable applicants to apply for postgraduate scholarships and internships for 2021.
CCRIF Scholarship Programmes offered 2021:
- Disaster Risk Management (DRM)
- Disaster Risk Financing
- Natural Resources Management
- Risk Management
- Climate Change
- Civil with Environmental Engineering
- Actuarial Science
- Meteorology
ELIGIBILITY:
- Scholarship recipients must be citizens of CARICOM member or associate member countries and/or CCRIF member countries in the Caribbean.
- Applicants must already be admitted to a university.
- Extra-Regional Scholarship: United Kingdom, United States or Canada
- Regional Scholarship: University of the West Indies, University of Technology (Jamaica), Northern Caribbean University (Jamaica), University of Guyana, University of Suriname, University of Trinidad and Tobago
Both online and face-to-face programmes are considered.
VALUE OF SCHOLARSHIP:
- Extra-Regional: up to US$40,000.00
- Regional Scholarship: up to US$11,000.00 each
For further details on qualified universities and their eligible programmes and application forms, please follow the link: https://www.ccrif.org/scholarship
Application deadline: on or before 15 June 2021
CCRIF Regional Internship Programme 2021
Caribbean university graduates are invited to apply for an internship to work with a Caribbean organisation in an area related to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation.
The programme will have 2 modes of operation:
- Virtual internships — working remotely with a national or regional organization in the Caribbean
- On-site internships — working face-to-face in the intern’s own country with a national or regional organisation where the local situation allows.
For further details on the internship opportunity and application form, please follow the link:
https://www.ccrif.org/regional-internship-programme
Application deadline: on or before 15 June 2021
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