Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) Story Production Grants 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 20, 2025

Applications for the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) Story Production Grants 2025 are actually open. The MFWA is inviting functions from journalists in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo to apply for story grants to provide high quality indepth and impactful tales on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and Digital Public Goods and Services.

The story grants type part of the help being prolonged to journalists within the 4 goal nations (Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo) to provide impactful tales beneath the second part of its Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Journalism Fellowship. The application is open to all journalists within the 4 nations, together with the present DPI Fellows, DPI Journalism Fellowship Alumni and all journalists no matter media style.

Areas of Interest

The DPI/DPGs tales that may qualify for grants should cowl any of the areas outlined beneath:

• Educational/sensitization tales or documentaries about DPI/DPGs and their significance
• DPI and instantaneous fee methods
• Collaboration between digital fee platforms and central banks – platforms, successes, challenges areas of enchancment
• DPI/DPGs and points of information safety, cybersecurity and fraud particularly in digital fee sector
• How DPI/DPGs are facilitating monetary inclusion
• DPI and cellular cash – deployment, rollout, inclusions, challenges and associated points
• Country-level comparative analyses about DPI/DPGs rollout – charges, successes, challenges, classes, areas of collaboration, and so on.
• Implications of taxes on instantaneous fee methods and implication on monetary inclusion
• Data alternate platforms and safety points
• Implementation of inclusion and safeguards in DPI/DPG deployment
• Demonstration of DPI/DPGs progress within the respective nations by case research
• Educational/sensitization tales concerning the Universal Safeguards Framework
• Showcasing the financial worth within the deployment of DPI/DPGs
• Procurement points round DPI
• Other DPI/DPGs points not talked about above

grant

• On the typical, every story shall be entitled to an quantity of USD $300. The quantity could also be kind of relying on the story and its anticipated affect.

Eligibility

• Applicant have to be a journalist working in one of many 4 challenge nations – Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo;
• Must have a narrative concept on DPI/DPGs which have the potential to enhance consciousness; spark public and coverage debates; and/or lead to actions; statements or commitments from related stakeholders;
• Must have a observe document of manufacturing impactful tales;
• Must have a letter of help from the journalist’s media home confirming the media outlet’s settlement to publish the tales that might be produced from the story grant.

Application

• Share your story pitch(es) on this form. The pitch should present an concept concerning the subject and the story, the method, doable sources for the story, and most significantly, the anticipated affect.
• Provide a price range for the story manufacturing with some particulars concerning the price range gadgets.
• Upload a signed consent letter out of your media home.
• Confirm your willingness to work with the DPI Journalism Fellowship Editors in your story.
• Submit your application.

For extra data, go to MFWA Story Production Grants.