EJN Seed Grants for Media Outlets to Cover Natural Resource Management and Green Growth in Nepal 2026 – YOA

Deadline: February 15, 2026

Applications are open for the EJN Seed Grants for Media Outlets to Cover Natural Resource Management and Green Growth in Nepal 2026. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is providing two grants of 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 enhance 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 supposed to seed new applications, columns or sections that concentrate on these points, or combine these points into present common applications. Over the course of the grant interval, they anticipate that chosen media shops will every design and pilot a brand new program, producing no less than two tales or episodes as proof of idea. 

Benefits

• They anticipate supporting two organizations with grants of 4,500 euros every.
• Selected media organizations will obtain further help from a senior journalist and/or a topic-matter knowledgeable to strengthen their capability through the grant interval.

Eligibility

• Media shops in Nepal—together with newspapers, on-line media, radio, tv, multimedia platforms, and social media channels— are welcome to apply. Applications should suggest one new media programming concept on the themes said and embrace the manufacturing of no less than two episodes or tales. More than one application from the media is not going to be accepted.
  • Note: Selected grantees from first and second cohort (2024 and 2025 seed grant calls, respectively) will not be eligible to apply. 
• For the needs of this funding OPPORTUNITY, EJN will solely be accepting purposes in English and Nepali. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to take into account purposes in different languages at present. 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 correct 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

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

Applications will probably be evaluated utilizing the next evaluation standards: 

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

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to EJN Seed Grants.