Niongoze Fellowship 2024
The Niongoze Fellowship is the flagship program of Doyenne Organization, designed to recruit young female leaders in universities across Tanzania for a year-long leadership training, mentorship, and coaching fellowship.
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Niongoze Fellowship Class of 2022
The class of 2022 was endowed with a total of 15 fellows from 11 universities across Tanzania. The class includes divers professionals ranging from social workers, scientists, accounts and so forth.
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Leadership has no gender!
Gender disparity in leadership stands as a challenge that both the government and private sectors strive to solve in Tanzania and the World at large.
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The Niongoze Fellowship Journey
The Niongoze Fellowship is our stellar program commenced in 2021 with 9 students from different universities in Tanzania. Click the button below to read more about the program.
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DOYENNE

Who we are
We are the non-government organization established in Tanzania with the goal of developing a generation of qualified female leaders through programs that train, coach, mentor, and inspire high school and  university girls in Tanzania.

Our Values

We are passionate about developing the next generation of female leaders. We believe in
diverse traits that make a good LEADER as our core values. These values guide us as a way
of our being and signify the commitment we make to ourselves and the people we are serving.

LOYALTY

We are committed to driving our mission and serve our community with the quality of unswerving allegiance.

EMPATHY

We are dedicated to perceive and relate to the thoughts, emotions, or experiences of people we are obliged, by understanding their needs and be aware of their feelings and thoughts.

AUTHENTICITY

We are true to ourselves and the values we hold dearly and devoted to transmitting them to the community we are serving.

DECISIVENESS

We are staunch to make clear-cut and timely decisions with the appropriate amount of information.

EQUALITY

We are intentional in building a more inclusive and diversified working environment by value and treat equally the people we are working with and for.

RESPECT

We are deliberate to treat everyone well for their qualities or character traits with the manifestation of high dignity towards them.

News & Updates

Keep up to date with our latest news and updates

Keep up to date with our latest news and updates.

OUR IMPACT

The Niongoze Fellowship aim at providing the best possible leadership training to young women and girls so as to bridge the gap and provide equal leadership opportunities regardless of gender roles.

Inclusion of women in the economy makes good economic sense. We can’t transform Africa without bringing women to the forefront. There has to be a leadership ready to correct this historical injustice on women.

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Halima Msofe

University of Dodoma
Class of 2022
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Alvina Minja

University of Dar es Salaam
Class of 2022
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Khadija Msumi

University of Dar es Salaam
Class of 2022

Upcoming Events

Don’t miss out Doyenne activities by keeping yourself up to date with our events calendar.

First Colloquium: Niongoze Fellowship Class of 2024
Saturday, September 21st, 2024
Lushoto Tanga
Inauguration Ceremony for the 2nd Cohort Niongoze Fellows
Thursday, October 6th, 2022
Dutch Embassy, Dar es Salaam
First Colloquium: Niongoze Fellowship Class of 2022
Monday, October 10th, 2022
Lushoto, Tanga

Inclusion of women in the economy makes good economic sense. We can’t transform Africa without bringing women to the forefront. There has to be a leadership ready to correct this historical injustice on women.

LEADERSHIP HAS NO GENDER

Join our hands and let us make a difference by preparing young girls to become great leaders.