EJN Seed Grants for Media Outlets to Cover Natural Resource Management and Green Growth in Nepal 2025 (up to €4,500) – YOA

Deadline: August 21, 2025

Applications are open for the EJN Seed Grants for Media Outlets to Cover Natural Resource Management and Green Growth in Nepal 2025. Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is providing 6 grants averaging 4,500 euros every to media shops in Nepal to assist new media programming on pure useful resource administration and inexperienced progress.

The goal of those grants is to improve the capability of the media in Nepal to present modern and options-oriented data on inexperienced progress and pure useful resource administration to the general public and policymakers. The grants are meant to seed new packages, columns or desks in media shops that target these points or combine these points into present in style packages. Over the course of the grant interval, they count on that chosen media shops will every design and pilot a brand new program, producing not less than two tales or episodes as proof of idea.

Grant

• They anticipate supporting six organizations with grants of 4,500 Euros every.  
• Selected media organizations will obtain extra help from a senior journalist and/or a topic-matter professional to strengthen their capability throughout the grant interval.  

Eligibility

• Media shops in Nepal—together with newspapers, on-line media, radio, tv, multimedia platforms, and social media channels— are invited to apply. Please be aware: Selected grantees from the primary spherical should not eligible.
• Applications should suggest one new media programming thought on the themes famous above and embrace the manufacturing of not less than two episodes or tales. More than one application from the media is not going to be accepted.
• For the needs of this funding OPPORTUNITY, they are going to solely be accepting purposes in English and Nepali. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to contemplate purposes in different languages at the moment. Applicants should both have a working understanding of English or Nepali or have a translator out there to help with communication with Internews employees. However, candidates could produce tales in any language.
• Applicants are required to be clear about using generative AI instruments, if any, in the event of their proposals. 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.

Judging Criteria

Applications can be evaluated utilizing the next evaluation standards:  

• the general high quality of the proposal; 
• the relevance of the proposed mission in contributing to the goals and priorities of this grant program;   
• the potential affect of the proposed mission, together with the standard and effectiveness of the mission design;    
• the modern traits of the proposed actions; 
• sustainability of the packages past the grant interval;
• the monetary viability and price-effectiveness of the proposed exercise;   
• the flexibility of the applicant to carry it out. 

Application

Applications ought to present a easy price range explaining how they are going to allocate the grant funds with justification for the quantity requested. Download the price range template here. All candidates are required to present a signed letter of assist in an official letterhead, explicitly stating that the outlet will publish the content material produced because of this assist. Applicants will even want to submit two samples of reviews or hyperlinks to related work.  

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For extra data, go to EJN Seed Grants.