Doyenne EXECUTIVE PROGRAM
Doyenne Executive Program (DEP) is a week-long residency, unique and exclusive personal leadership transformative training designed specifically for professional women in public, private, and social sectors in Tanzania.
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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

We are a non-government organization established in Tanzania with a goal to create a generation of female leaders through programs that train, coach, mentor, and inspire university girls in Tanzania. We aspire to empower and equip young girls with the right leadership skills needed to achieve global development, advance their communities, and begin their leadership journey.

Core Values

We believe in diverse traits that make a good LEADER!

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.

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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.

Samina Suluhu Hassan , Tanzania’s Sixth President, 2019
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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.

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.

Samia Suluhu Hassan , Tanzania’s Sixth President, 2019

LEADERSHIP HAS NO GENDER

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