Each year, up to 30 Pacific women Australia Awards scholars are selected to participate in the Women’s Developmental Leadership Program.
Through a range of offerings, participants establish the foundations of developmental leadership, develop their own leadership style, and foster regional and country-based connections to drive lasting change. Alumni of the program continue to access bespoke support to exercise developmental leadership upon their return to the Pacific.
Applications for 2025 are now closed.
One-on-one issues-based and collective ontological coaching sessions give participants and alumni a safe space to strategically work through barriers holding them back from reaching their leadership potential.
Two week-long residential leadership intensives help participants build deep connections, learn from prominent Pacific and Australian leaders, and test understandings of, and approaches to, leadership in their own contexts.
By identifying and addressing real-life developmental issues in their own communities, countries and regions, participants test and embed leadership learning and skills. Opportunities to expand these efforts are available through the Leadership Fund.
Selected participants and alumni are supported to design, seek and secure work placements and internships in the Australia-Pacific that build skills, networks and readiness to take on take on leadership roles upon their return home.
Applications opened on the WLI website
Applications closed at 11:59PM (Australian Eastern Daylight Time)
Successful applicants notified, online induction sessions
First residential intensive in Tharwa and Canberra, ACT
First residential intensive in Tharwa and Canberra, ACT
Second residential intensive in Clear Mountain, QLD
Introduction to the WLI alumni network, access to ongoing support, funding and opportunities
To be an eligible applicant you will:
Cook Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
New Caledonia
Nauru
Niue
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Republic of Marshall Islands
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Wallis and Futuna
