Extra-Regional Scholarships
Overview
The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) is a risk pooling facility, owned, operated and registered in the Caribbean to serve Caribbean governments and their communities to reduce the economic impact of natural catastrophes.
Through its Scholarship/Professional Development Programme of the wider CCRIF Technical Assistance Programme, CCRIF is providing three scholarships annually for students pursuing a Masters or MBA programme in a number of pre-identified areas (see eligibility criteria).
Eligibility
Applications are invited from individuals who are citizens of one of the following CCRIF member countries: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, and Turks & Caicos Islands.
Eligible programmes include Masters-level (MSc, MA, MBA) courses of study in universities in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada and in one of the following areas:
• (Catastrophe) Risk Management
• Property/Casualty Insurance
• Disaster Management
• Meteorology/Climate Change
• Engineering (Civil/Environmental/Building with disaster focus)
Applicants should be holders of a First Class or Upper Second Class Honours degree (or have a GPA of at least 3.5) and have some related work experience.
Two of the Masters scholarships are valued at a maximum of US$40,000 each. The MBA scholarship is valued at a maximum of US$60,000 and is specifically for those applicants who would have gained admission to an MBA programme with a Major in risk management and/or insurance or a related field.
The scholarships will be awarded to students who have demonstrated exceptional performance in academia, are involved or currently work in the field of disaster risk management or sustainable development in the Caribbean and have a record of broader community involvement.
Preference will be given to individuals with supporting nominations from publically funded (Government) national and regional agencies engaged in the areas of risk management, disaster management, meteorology, engineering and from the Ministries of Finance, Planning, Environment etc.
Important
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Please affix your name to the documents to be uploaded. Names of the uploaded documents must match their contents.
April 13, 2012 is the deadline date for application submission.
For additional information please send an email with your queries to: ccrifscholarships@ccrif.org