EJN Media Grants 2026 to Strengthen Reporting on Forest Governance Issues in Africa and Asia (up to £10,000) – YOA

Deadline: February 26, 2026

Applications are open for the EJN Media Grants 2026 to Strengthen Reporting on Forest Governance Issues in Africa and Asia. This media grant OPPORTUNITY will award up to 9 grants in whole to media organizations in Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, Vietnam and Indonesia, for tasks that may improve media protection and/or enhance journalists’ capability to report on forest governance subjects. This work is funded with UK International Development from the UK authorities.

Projects funded by this grant ought to search to strengthen the capability of journalists and media organizations in a number of of the goal nations to produce excessive-high quality, proof-based mostly and partaking tales on forest governance insurance policies, challenges and options. Supported tasks ought to goal to amplify the voices of marginalized teams straight affected by these points, whereas drawing public and resolution-maker consideration to the threats to—and options for—equitable and sustainable forest administration.

Grant

• They anticipate supporting 9 organizations with grants of 10,000 GBP every, with at the least one group supported in every nation. In normal, proposals with smaller budgets might be extra aggressive. Larger grant quantities might be thought-about for tasks that use modern approaches and could also be extra resource- and time-consuming.

Eligibility

• Media organizations in Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, Vietnam and Indonesia are eligible to apply. .
• This alternative is open to journalist networks, media organizations, civil society organizations or tutorial establishments. Although they may contemplate purposes by NGOs or environmental teams wanting to construct the capability of journalists to cowl conservation points, desire might be given to purposes from or affiliated with skilled journalists, media organizations, journalism faculties and the like.  
• They won’t contemplate purposes rooted in advocacy or political campaigning.   
• For the needs of this grant alternative, they may solely be accepting purposes in English. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to contemplate purposes in different languages right now. Applicants should both have a working understanding of English or have a translator out there to help with communication with Internews workers.
• Existing or former EJN grantees are eligible to apply. They will take the efficiency of present or former grantees into consideration throughout the choice.
• Applicants are required to be clear about using generative AI instruments, if any, to revise their proposals. EJN reserves the precise 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.
• All grantees that intend to help the manufacturing of tales as part of their challenge might be knowledgeable of the FGMI challenge’s excessive-high quality journalism requirements and are anticipated to encourage their supported journalists to produce work in line with these requirements. These embrace—however will not be restricted to—the inclusion of marginalized sources, complete and honest protection with illustration of all stakeholders, attributable quotes, private narratives and different components to be mentioned throughout onboarding for this grant alternative.

Judging Criteria

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

Applications might be evaluated utilizing the next evaluation standards: 

• The total high quality of the proposal;
• The relevance of the proposed challenge in contributing to the targets and priorities of this grant program;  
• The potential impression of the proposed challenge, together with the standard and effectiveness of the challenge design;  
• The modern traits of the proposed actions;
• The monetary viability and value-effectiveness of the proposed exercise;
• The capability of the applicant to carry it out;
• The geographical unfold of the grantees.

Application

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For extra data, go to EJN Grants.