United Nations Foundation Polio Press Fellowship for Individual Reporting to Africa 2025 (up to $10,000)

Deadline: January 3, 2025

Applications are open for the United Nations Foundation Polio Press Fellowship for Individual Reporting to Africa 2025. This fellowship is geared in the direction of journalists interested by reporting tales on polio eradication in Africa.

Upon taking part in a collection of digital polio coaching periods, chosen journalists will obtain funding to journey independently to a number of nations in Africa on the forefront of the polio eradication effort to collect tales and interviews with polio survivors, well being care employees, group members, households, and well being authorities. Preference can be given to reporters interested by touring to the next nations: Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, Nigeria, Madagascar, and Mozambique.

Polio is a extremely contagious illness that primarily impacts kids beneath the age of 5 and might trigger paralysis and even dying. Due to complete eradication efforts, together with an efficient vaccine, world detection and reporting networks, strong authorities funding, and devoted well being employees, polio instances have decreased dramatically worldwide. Global polio eradication is in sight, as instances have dropped by greater than 99% since 1988.

Funding

• Funding for this press fellowship is made attainable via monetary assist from the Gates Foundation. Two award classes can be found, small awards (beneath $5,000) or giant awards (up to $10,000).

Eligibility

• They will contemplate initiatives throughout all media platforms (together with print, images, audio, and video) for publication by a number of nationwide or worldwide media shops. This fellowship can’t be used to fund books, feature-length movies, or works of fiction or to buy tools.
• Applicants are anticipated to display sufficient expertise producing and publishing related information content material for respected world or nationwide shops.
• The Foundation is dedicated to supporting journalists from various backgrounds and of all nationalities. While tales could also be printed in any language, primary English abilities are obligatory to take part within the fellowship interviews, coaching, and different required actions.
• Freelance journalists are welcome to apply.
• Multi-person groups could submit a joint undertaking proposal, nonetheless, the utmost award quantity per undertaking stays the identical.

Application

Interested and eligible journalists should submit an software that features a undertaking proposal and price range. Applications ought to mirror every journalist’s distinctive curiosity in polio eradication and will contain themes similar to: developments and improvements in polio vaccination and surveillance; the connection between gender and polio; boundaries to reaching unvaccinated kids; and the affect of local weather change, misinformation, urbanization, battle, and different world challenges to polio eradication.

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For extra data, go to UN Foundation Polio Press Fellowship.