ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.

UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT MONICA ISABEL JOSE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Ateneo de Manila University | Quezon City, Philippines | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 1, SDG 4, SDG 5, SDG 17 & UNAI 2

" Communities play a key role in the achievement of inclusive development. There must be an emphasis on working with them to work towards their own vision of development. I am passionate about working with communities towards inclusive development where no one will be left behind. Development that does not cater to everyone has no place in our current context. Empowerment of local communities should always be central to the development process. I am excited to work with other students in my cohort so that we may be able to work together towards a just and sustainable future. Millennium Fellowship is a platform for me to work with other people in my cohort to do more good. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project SigLakas
Project SigLakas is a community-based health and development intervention co-created with ERDA Parents and ERDA Youth, a group of parent and youth beneficiaries of the Educational Research and Development Assistance (ERDA) Foundation, Inc. in Barangay 649, Port Area, Manila. SigLakas is a wordplay of the Filipino words “Sigla” and “Lakas” which means vigor and strength, of which the project aims to achieve with ERDA Parents and ERDA Youth. The goal of the project is to address the community’s health and rights-related concerns and aid in the internalization of human rights, especially the right to health. To achieve this, the students came up with 3 workshops that span across individual, team, and community levels reflecting the socio-ecological model of health. Each level aims to inform and capacitate participants on matters that affect and can contribute to the development of involved stakeholders at each level. The project was further aided by the UNODC’s Biophysical model which emphasizes viewing drug dependence from both a physical and psychological lens. Through integrating these models, Project SigLakas was able to operationalize long-existing public health models for a theoretically informed and sustainable community-based health intervention.
About the Millennium Fellow
Monica Isabel Jose is a Development Studies student and Multidisciplinary Creative from the province of Bulacan, Philippines. She describes herself as a hopeful realist, envisioning a world where every child has the opportunity and capacity to dream and play. Over the past years, she has been engaged in various efforts towards inclusive societal development for communities in the Philippines and beyond. Currently, her photography is centered on covering social movements and the stories of those are who forced to live at the margins. She hopes to further explore stories of those who bear the brunt of profit-centered development





