ADDO Fellowships 2025 for Research & Media Organisations in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal – YOA

Deadline: May 15, 2025

Are you a analysis or media establishment primarily based in Côte d’Ivoire or Senegal in strengthening the capacities of your journalists in open-supply investigations? Apply for the ADDO Fellowships for Research & Media Organisations 2025.

Code for Africa (CfA) is providing eight African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) Institutional Fellowships to strengthen the investigative expertise of analysis and media establishments in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal. The programme goals to equip researchers and journalists at these organisations with open-supply intelligence (OSINT) and social media intelligence (SOCMINT) forensic evaluation expertise to provide proof-pushed analysis of data manipulation and interference (IMI) and coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB), and to assist entry to credible info.

Their targets for the fellowships are to:

• Equip investigative media organisations, analysis institutes, assume tanks, and watchdog civil society organisations with open-supply intelligence (OSINT) expertise and instruments to turbocharge their investigations into info manipulation.
• Support the chosen organisations in establishing in-house groups that produce common analyses monitoring info integrity in their nations.
• Help the taking part organisations attain bigger audiences and construct deeper engagement with the general public for knowledge-pushed discussions on key points.
• Build a powerful pan-African community of OSINT investigators who can collaborate on transnational investigations with friends worldwide to unmask affect operations and info manipulation.

Benefits

The programme will include:

• Grants: Organisations will obtain a modest grant to cowl eligible actions and prices.
• Training and mentorship: CfA will provide fingers-on technical coaching, adopted by one-on-one challenge mentorship with assist from CfA’s knowledge technologists, editors, and forensic investigators.
• Publishing investigative content material packages: As a results of the coaching and mentorship, organisations will publish content material packages together with however not restricted to articles, podcasts, movies, and experiences on hate speech, misinformation, and propaganda points in their platforms. 

Eligibility

• The organisations have to be registered in Côte d’Ivoire or Senegal.
• The organisations should have a minimal of 1 12 months of expertise, with a powerful choice for experience in analytical analysis or knowledge journalism.
• The organisations should present proof of experiences they’ve produced and revealed, with the latest publication being no older than two months.
• The organisations should decide to well timed and open communication from the administration and assigned journalists.
• The organisations should decide to publishing/disseminating their work on an applicable public platform. CfA will help with partnerships/syndications the place applicable.
• The organisations should decide to agreed-upon on-line coaching and mentorship classes.
• The assigned journalists have to be fluent in both of the languages of tuition and mentorship: English or French.

Application

If your organisation is eligible, apply by Thursday, 15 May 2025, by finishing the application type. Institutions with feminine researchers and investigative journalists are inspired to apply.

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For extra info, go to ADDO Fellowships.