Africa No Filter Voices for Climate Justice Program 2026 (up to $4,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 25, 2026

Applications are open for the Africa No Filter Voices for Climate Justice Program 2026. Across a lot of Africa, local weather finance is arriving as debt moderately than because the grants it ought to be. Instead of receiving help that displays the continent’s minimal contribution to the disaster, African nations are being pushed additional into debt by way of loans, with many governments spending extra on debt reimbursement than on well being or local weather adaptation mixed.

Africa No Filter is trying for journalists, content material creators, podcasters, vloggers, muralists, knowledge visualizers from Mozambique, Uganda, Nigeria, Angola, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Tanzania, South Sudan, Malawi, and Zambia to take part within the Voices for Climate Justice initiative.

They are trying for inventive concepts that may assist clarify how local weather change, debt, gender, and fossil fuels have an effect on individuals and communities throughout Africa; whether or not you inform tales by way of video, podcasts, articles, murals, knowledge visualization, they need to hear from you. Selected storytellers will obtain coaching in local weather justice, knowledge storytelling, and narrative framing earlier than working with researchers and companions to develop correct, partaking tales primarily based on analysis.

Benefits

• The 12-month program is delivered in partnership with Comic Relief, and can help 15–20 storytellers with coaching, mentorship, content material amplification and grants of up to US$4,000 to create highly effective tales that spark public dialog and encourage motion. 

Eligibility

You should:

• Must be a storyteller ( journalists, content material creators, podcasters, vloggers, muralists, knowledge visualizers) aged 18 and above;
• Applicants should be primarily based in Mozambique, Uganda, Nigeria, Angola, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Tanzania, South Sudan, Malawi, and Zambia;
• Applicants will need to have an lively and engaged platform ( podcast, YouTube channel, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, publication, knowledge visualization portfolio) with that has been lively and extremely engaged for greater than a yr;
• Applicants should commit to sharing a minimal of 4 gender, debt, and fossil gasoline content material for a interval of not lower than 6 months;
• Content creators and knowledge visualizers will need to have a mixed viewers of 5,000 or extra followers on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter/X and Snapchat. (Journalists might as a substitute display attain by way of publication circulation);
• Content creators should be unsigned (not represented by an agent). Journalists could also be affiliated with a publication, or outlet supplied the submitted work and content material rights stay their very own;
• All candidates’ proposed concepts should be targeted on the marketing campaign’s core themes of local weather justice, gender, debt, and fossil fuels in Africa;
• Only particular person candidates can apply (no organizations or businesses)
• Demonstration of dedication to ANF’s ideas and to moral, survivor-centered storytelling on gender-primarily based impacts.

Application

• Step 1 – Prepare a pitch deck of no more than 5 slides or a video of no more than 60 seconds highlighting your storytelling concept that connects gender, debt, and fossil fuels in Africa.  
• Step 2 – Submit a web-based application on the application portal, hyperlinks to your platforms (social media, publication, or neighborhood community), and a brief description of the viewers/neighborhood you propose to attain. 

All content material shall be delivered in English, or French.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Voices for Climate Justice.