Emerging Public Leaders in Kenya
Public Service Emerging Leaders Fellowship (PSELF)
In 2022, EPL and our partners, welcomed the inaugural cohort of 51 future government leaders into the Public Service Emerging Leaders Fellowship program focused on public-sector leadership development, ethics cultivation, and citizen-centered government delivery.
The second cohort of 65 fellows began their training in June 2023. They are working diligently with their trainers, supervisors, and mentors to develop best practices in citizen-centered policy design and strengthen trust in the public sector through ethical leadership. Six week long training sessions, or ‘segments’, will be delivered throughout the year.
Over the year, the fellowship trains and develops Kenya’s most promising young public servants for future leadership, providing them with responsive training, supporting them with mentors, and connecting them with a network of peers in Ghana and Liberia for support throughout their public service careers.
The Fellows experience a specially contextualized curriculum incorporating ethical leadership, responsive training, inclusive policy development, and leadership modules from national and international pedagogy. Designed in collaboration with the Chandler Institute of Governance, an international non-profit organization based in Singapore, the curriculum's defining attribute is a strong practitioner orientation.
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About PSELF
The Public Service Emerging Leaders Fellowship (PSELF) program of Kenya marked Emerging Public Leaders' entry into East Africa. In a three-way partnership, EPL works with the Public Service Commission and Emerging Leaders Foundation Africa to curate a cadre of young public servants to continue Kenya’s government's efforts to re-engage youth in public service and administration and build an effective civil service corps that bridges the intergenerational divide.
In a signing ceremony on November 23rd, 2021, Emerging Public Leaders, ELF-Africa and the Public Service Commission of Kenya commemorated two years of co-creation and development of the program and committed to a partnership that would deliver a program sustaining leadership throughout the public sector.