Applications Invited for Earth Journalism Network Asia Pacific Media Grants 2025

About the Organization

Created in 2004, EJN is now a very international community of reporters and media retailers in nearly each area of the world.

Environmental and local weather change reporting is now extra pressing than ever, however journalists face myriad and mounting challenges in protecting these matters. The media business is in disaster, and misinformation is on the rise. Reporters working for cash-strapped information companies typically haven’t got the assets to analysis a narrative correctly; freelancers, even much less so. That’s the place EJN is available in.

About the Grant

In 2024, nations throughout the Asia Pacific skilled scorching heatwaves and droughts and grappled with monsoon rains that triggered catastrophic floods and landslides.

According to the Asian Development Bank, local weather impacts alone might result in a 17% GDP drop throughout Asia and the Pacific by 2070 beneath a excessive carbon emissions situation, which might rise to 41% of GDP by the top of the century.

And because the local weather disaster accelerates, it exacerbates challenges throughout the area: claiming lives, threatening livelihoods and kids’s educations, rising the burden of poverty, meals insecurity and illness, and additional destabilizing ecosystems and biodiversity.

These interconnected international crises pose a grave menace to susceptible nations, and current funding commitments do little to fulfill the necessity for adaptation, mitigation and resilience.

To increase public consciousness of those points – and the pressing want for cross-sectoral options – the Earth Journalism Network is happy to announce a brand new spherical of media grants via its Asia-Pacific Phase 2 mission, which goals to spice up the amount and high quality of environmental protection within the area and amplify the views of at-risk communities.

This mission has acquired beneficiant monetary assist from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

Objectives

Proposed actions ought to search to:

• Strengthen the capability of journalists and media organizations to supply high-quality, evidence-based and interesting environmental tales on the results of human impacts on the surroundings and viable options to mitigate and reply to those impacts.
• Improve the standard and amount of content material and/or media protection on key environmental themes to focus public consideration on the interdependence of the well being and well-being of people and their environments.
• Direct public consideration to the disproportionate impacts of environmental degradation on ladies, the poor, youth, Indigenous Peoples, ethnic minorities and different susceptible teams and improve these teams’ entry to high-quality, publicly accessible environmental data.
• Contribute to optimistic adjustments in environmental governance, coverage actions, environmental requirements within the non-public sector or shopper habits for a extra sustainable lifestyle.

Themes

For this spherical, we’re notably all in favour of proposals that target a number of of the next themes:

• Under-reported environmental points and their linkages with  well being, organized crime, migration, battle and different points
• The interdependence of the well being and well-being of people, animals and their environments
• Environmental governance and pure useful resource administration
• The power transition and local weather financing
• Viable environmental options for group resilience within the face of interconnected environmental crises

We welcome proposals that search to:

• Incorporate the moral use of AI as a instrument to assist journalists of their reporting on environmental points.
• Work with social media content material creators or embrace social media outreach to entry a various and widespread viewers on-line
• Work with marginalized teams, equivalent to ladies, youth, Indigenous People, ethnic minority teams. folks with disabilities, or poor households
• Examples of actions or outputs that may be supported embrace, however should not restricted to:
• Training workshops for journalists and/or content material creators, to extend the standard and amount of local weather and environmental data in information retailers and/or social media
• Story grants and mentoring for journalists and/or content material creators
• The growth of reporters’ assets and/or e-learning instruments to profit environmental reporters and their audiences
• The growth of progressive mapping, information visualization and/or fact-checking instruments to assist reporting and/or the distribution of environmental tales
• Transboundary, collaborative, investigative and/or data-led reporting initiatives that facilitate peer-to-peer studying and content material sharing amongst media retailers primarily based in several areas or nations
• The institution of latest storytelling platforms
• Partnerships and network-building actions such because the formation of an environmental journalists’ community or an investigative reporting collective
• Cross-sectoral collaborations and information change between journalists, data suppliers, researchers and policymakers

Grant Size

This grant fund has US$100,000 accessible for awards this 12 months, which might ideally be shared amongst 5-6 initiatives. The grant quantity can vary between US$15,000 to US$20,000 relying on the scope of the proposed actions.

Eligibility

• This spherical of grants shall be targeted on supporting media retailers, journalism establishments and different organizations that work straight with media or content material creators within the Asia-Pacific area. Applicant organizations have to be legally permitted to obtain grants from international organizations.
• Civil society organizations, community-based teams and analysis establishments won’t be eligible for this spherical.
• For the aim of this name, we’re solely accepting purposes from low-and middle-income nations within the Asia-Pacific area. We are sadly unable to just accept purposes from Pakistan and Central Asian or Middle Eastern nations. 
• EJN reserves the suitable to disqualify candidates from consideration if they’ve been discovered to have engaged in unethical or improper skilled conduct, together with, however not restricted to, plagiarism and submitting AI-generated content material as their very own.

How to Apply

Deadline: 30 January, 2025, 11:59 PM (Pacific/Niue)

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