EJN Media Grants to Support Coverage of Countries’ Progress Toward the 30×30 Marine Conservation Target 2026 ($10,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: November 24, 2025

Applications are open for EJN Media Grants to Support Coverage of Countries’ Progress Toward the 30×30 Marine Conservation Target 2026. EJN is providing media grants to newsrooms and media organizations in coastal nations, with specific give attention to Ghana, Mexico, and the Philippines, to help in-depth and enterprise reporting initiatives, initiatives to practice journalists and different actions designed to enhance media protection and the capability of journalists to report on 30×30 marine conservation targets.

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In December 2022, greater than 190 nations dedicated to obtain ‘30×30’ underneath goal 3 of the Global Biodiversity Framework. This goal requires the efficient safety and administration of 30% of the world’s terrestrial, inland water, and coastal and marine areas, particularly areas of specific significance for biodiversity and ecosystem capabilities and companies, by the 12 months 2030.

Creating marine protected areas (MPAs) and different space-based mostly conservation measures (OECMs) with sturdy guidelines and enforcement are amongst the best methods to preserve marine biodiversity. Yet summits since 2022 have made it clear the world just isn’t on monitor to meet this goal. In reality, up to now nations have solely totally or extremely protected 2.9% of our oceans, removed from 30%.

News organizations and journalists, notably in low- and center-revenue nations, typically lack the sources, data, or capability to report related and excessive-high quality ocean-associated info. Many journalists themselves might not be accustomed to ocean points, 30×30 or MPAs.

To fill this hole, EJN is providing media grants to newsrooms and media organizations in coastal nations. Applications from Ghana, Mexico, and the Philippines might be prioritized. These grants will help in-depth reporting initiatives and coaching of journalists, with the intention to enhance the high quality and amount of protection about progress towards the 30×30 goal and the challenges and options to reaching this aim.

Grant

• They anticipate supporting 5 organizations with grants of $10,000 USD every. One grant might be given for every focus nation—Ghana, Mexico and the Philippines—and two grants to candidates from any eligible nation.

Eligibility

• Newsrooms and media organizations in coastal nations are eligible to apply. Because 30×30 refers to marine conservation, they won’t settle for purposes from nations with a freshwater coast; solely coastal nations with a marine border might be thought-about. In specific, they encourage these from Ghana, Mexico, and the Philippines to apply.
• Civil society organizations, educational establishments, NGOs or environmental teams should not eligible for this OPPORTUNITY. Applications with a give attention to advocacy and/or political campaigning won’t be thought-about.
• For the functions of this grant alternative, they are going to solely be accepting purposes in English and Spanish. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to think about purposes in different languages at the moment. Applicants should both have a working understanding of English or Spanish or have a translator out there to help with communication with Internews employees. Projects might, nevertheless, produce content material in any language greatest suited to their viewers.
• Former EJN grantees are eligible to apply. They will take the efficiency of former grantees into consideration throughout the choice. Organizations with an current EJN grant should not eligible.
• Applicants are required to be clear about the use of generative AI instruments, if any, to revise their proposals. EJN reserves the proper 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, submitting AI-generated content material as their very own.

Judging Criteria

All purposes they obtain are reviewed and mentioned by a panel of worldwide judges, comprising Internews employees and consultants in environmental journalism.

Applications might be evaluated utilizing the following evaluation standards:

• The general high quality of the proposal;
• The relevance of the proposed undertaking in contributing to the goals and priorities of this grant program;
• The potential influence of the proposed undertaking, together with the high quality and effectiveness of the undertaking design;
• The progressive traits of the proposed actions;
• The monetary viability and value-effectiveness of the proposed exercise;
• The capacity of the applicant to carry it out;.
• The geographical unfold of the grantees.

Application

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For extra info, go to EJN Media Grants.