Call for Applications: Barak-Meghna River Basin Storytellers Fellowship 2025

Are you a younger storyteller enthusiastic about river ecosystems, indigenous resilience, and environmental justice? Here’s your alternative to show your lens or pen into a strong agent of change.

The Barak-Meghna River Basin Storytellers Fellowship 2025 is now open for purposes! This prestigious fellowship helps younger people (ideally underneath 35) from India and Bangladesh working as filmmakers, photographers, researchers, writers, or digital influencers, to creatively doc the lived experiences, conservation efforts, and urgent environmental problems with the Barak-Meghna River Basin.

About the Fellowship

Organised by IUCN’s BRIDGE GBM initiative, the Barak-Meghna River Basin Storytellers Fellowship 2025 goals to foster compelling storytelling, community-led narratives that illuminate:

• Climate change adaptation

• Women’s management in water governance

• Ecosystem restoration

• Indigenous water practices

• Policy influence on native communities

Fellows will obtain mentorship, monetary help, and a platform to amplify their tales throughout media.

Key Objectives

• Research & Awareness: Highlight floods, air pollution, and erosion utilizing visible media.

• Policy & Advocacy: Promote youth and indigenous voices in river governance.

• Community Engagement: Showcase Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in motion, led by native stakeholders.

Themes to discover embrace:

• Water justice & inclusive governance

• Youth and women-led local weather resilience

• Restoring ecosystems for sustainable futures

• Sustainability and water safety

Fellowship Grant & Timeline

• Grant Amount: Up to €1,500

• Duration: 6 months

• Reporting: Fellows will submit periodic updates, a mid-term report, and a last influence report.

Each nation (India and Bangladesh) will choose two fellows. Selected candidates will attend an orientation session and obtain steady mentorship from Youth for Meghna (Y4M) and IUCN companions.

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 to 35 years

• Nationality/Residence: India or Bangladesh

• Fields: Environmental storytelling, journalism, communication, pictures, filmmaking, or related analysis

• Desirable: Prior expertise with the Barak-Meghna River Basin or native networks

Application Deadline: 20 June 2025

Submit your proposal and paperwork by way of this Google Form.

🧾 You’ll must submit:

• Personal particulars

• Educational {and professional} background

• Project proposal (theme, aims, format, influence, dissemination platforms)

• Timeline & price range

• Updated CV

Note: The proposed output should goal at sensible options and consciousness—not activism.

Selection & Evaluation

A panel from IUCN and Youth for Meghna will assess proposals based mostly on:

Shortlisted candidates could also be invited for a digital interview. Final picks can be publicly introduced and adopted by fellowship agreements.

For queries, contact:
📧 Md. Tareq Aziz
Programme Officer – Water and Wetlands, IUCN Bangladesh
📨 tareq.aziz@iucn.org

Join the motion. Become a Meghna River Storyteller. Inspire change by the facility of narrative.

Apply now ➡️ Click here to submit your proposal

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