Partner with us
Fund the workforce your market needs to exist.
Why organisations partner with this
If you hire compliance talent, you already know the pool is small, the poaching cycle inflates cost, and junior talent has no route in. The Fellowship manufactures that route and lets you observe 30–40 high-potential professionals delivering real work for sixteen weeks before you make a hiring decision.
If you operate in a regulated digital asset market, the quality of supervision in your jurisdictions is a direct input to your cost of doing business. Weak capacity produces licensing backlogs, unpredictable enforcement and de-risking. Strong capacity produces markets you can plan around.
If your mandate is development, this is a measurable, replicable capacity-building instrument with published outputs, tracked employment outcomes, deliberate public-sector inclusion and independent evaluation after Cohort 3.
If you need policy voice, the Dialogue convenes regulators and industry in the same room, and the research is authored in Africa about African markets.
Partnership tiers
- Founding Anchor Partner · from USD 150,000 over three years
- Naming rights on a programme element · board observer · Summit keynote · named scholarships · first access to the Talent Pool · co-branded research
- Strategic Partner · from USD 75,000 a year
- Named scholarships · faculty seats · Summit platform · Talent Pool access · Annual Report recognition
- Programme Partner · from USD 35,000 a cohort
- Sponsored track or module · mentors · recruitment access · recognition
- Scholarship Partner · from USD 10,000, five seats at USD 2,000
- Named scholarships · direct engagement with sponsored Fellows · recognition
- Faculty Partner · in-kind, valued from USD 5,000
- Recognition · Talent Pool access · Summit invitation
- Placement Partner · USD 7,500 a cohort
- Priority Demo Day access · candidate pre-screening · talent briefings
- Institutional Endorser · no fee, in-kind
- Logo association · member communication · CPD recognition
- Media Partner · in-kind
- Content access · interview access · co-branded output
Figures are indicative entry points for Cohort 1 and are set against a delivery cost of [USD 180,000 to 240,000], or [USD 5,100 to 6,900] per Fellow. Multi-cohort commitments, in-kind contributions and blended packages are negotiated on the same published basis. A single named scholarship is USD 2,000, the full tuition cost of one seat.
What your funding buys
Cohort 1 costs between [USD 180,000 and 240,000] to deliver: around [USD 5,100–6,900] per Fellow.
- Programme staff: Director, Academic Director, Programme Office, Track Leads
- 45%
- Faculty honoraria and specialist facilitators
- 12%
- Demo Day and Graduation Summit
- 12%
- Technology platform
- 10%
- Marketing and recruitment
- 8%
- Research, editorial and publication
- 7%
- Fellow support: data stipends, accessibility
- 4%
- Contingency
- 2%
We publish the full budget framework in the concept note. We would rather be transparent and negotiated down than opaque and distrusted.
What we ask and what we don't
- We will not
- sell editorial control. Research publication is approved by an independent Research Council, and the funding behind any output is disclosed.
- We will not
- guarantee hiring outcomes to partners, any more than we guarantee them to Fellows.
- We will
- report honestly, including against targets we miss.
- We will
- conduct due diligence on partners through Legum Compliance, and we expect the same scrutiny in return.
Partner with us
Fund the workforce the rules depend on.
Sponsorship funds Fellow seats, research and the Dialogue programme.
Named partners are announced only once agreements are signed.