Deadline: January 15, 2019
Applications are open for APWLD Feminist Development Justice Media Fellowship. APWLD is inviting women media professionals across Asia-Pacific region to participate in the second media fellowship programme that aims to strengthen media advocacy on grassroots women’s issues through a feminist and human rights lens.
Selected journalists will be given a stipend of USD 1,000 to cover expenses for research and travel according to workplans co-developed with APWLD. The fellowship theme this year is on Feminist Development Justice as they wish to strengthen a feminist analysis on development issues in mainstream and alternative media spaces and galvanise public education and support.
The duration of the fellowship will be from March 2019 – August 2019. During this time period women journalists will have an option to produce news articles, features, audio-video content/documentary or digital stories with a feminist lens that highlight the linkages between gender, economic and development issues and its impact on women’s human rights.
They are committed to building feminist movements to advance women’s human rights and Development Justice. If you are deeply committed to covering feminist, progressive movements and challenging structural globalised inequalities, please consider applying for this opportunity.
Fellowship Details
APWLD will invite selected women journalists to Thailand for a three (3) day capacity building workshop on women’s human rights and feminist development justice (20 – 22 March 2019). This will be followed by a three (3) day Asia Pacific Peoples’ Forum on Sustainable Development (APPFSD) (24 – 26 March 2019), and the three (3) day UNESCAP Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) (27 – 29 March 2019). While the selected fellows are required to fully participate in the first two meetings, the last meeting organised by UNESCAP will be optional depending on the space availability.
At the workshop and the APPFSD, the media fellows will have opportunities to meet women human rights defenders and Feminist Development Justice advocates from Asia Pacific. Based on interactions with grassroots activists and experts, the fellows, in consultation with APWLD, will develop a plan on how to produce critical analysis on women, right to development and feminist development justice.
Fellowship Conditions
- During the fellowship period, the fellow journalists will be given a stipend of 1,000 USD to cover expenses for research and travel according to workplans co-developed with APWLD.
- Fellow journalists will be expected to produce three written pieces of 1,000-1,200 words each. Out of the three pieces, one should focus specifically on APWLD members or partners from the country/sub-region the fellow is from, one can cover any other APWLD members or partners, and one should be on the campaign/advocacy priorities of APWLD, e.g. Feminist Development Justice, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), High Level Political Forum (HLPF).
- If fellow journalists alternatively choose an audio-visual medium, they will produce two pieces of at least five minutes each. Out of the two pieces, at least one should focus specifically on APWLD members or partners and cover one of the campaign/advocacy priorities of APWLD, e.g. Feminist Development Justice, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), High Level Political Forum (HLPF).
- Fellow journalists can also choose to work across audio-visual media and text mediums. They will produce two pieces out of which, at least one should focus specifically on APWLD members or partners and cover one of the campaign/advocacy priorities of APWLD, e.g. Feminist Development Justice, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), High Level Political Forum (HLPF). There will be some flexibility in length of written text and audio-visuals on a case-by-case basis.
- Ideally, fellow journalists should submit letters from editors assuring their work will be published.
- The pieces can be long features, advocacy-focused, data driven, or documentary style.
- The fellowship partners will receive continuous support from APWLD Secretariat for shaping the articles and analysis.
- The fellowship partners commit to be in a close, regular communications with APWLD Secretariat.
Eligibility
Applicants whose work covers Cambodia, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Vanuatu are most encouraged to apply.
- The fellowship is open to women media professionals from Asia-Pacific with at least four years of experience.
- Experience in covering women’s human rights, grassroots movements, economic and development issues will be an added advantage.
- Demonstrated commitment to the promotion of women’s human rights in her respective country and /or Asia-Pacific.
- Commitment to feminist movement building.
- Must be able to travel overseas as required.
- Proficient in English and a language from the Asia Pacific region.
Application
The applicant should submit an expression of interest with the following documents:
- A completed application form
- Curriculum Vitae
- Two work samples of any medium
- A letter of endorsement from media organisation if full time employee, or a letter of endorsement from an editor if a freelance journalist
- Letter from editor assuring news stories will be published; Optional for freelance journalists
Please send completed forms via email with the subject line “Application for Media Fellowship 2019” to Andita Listyarini at [email protected] and cc Neha Gupta at [email protected], by no later than 15 January 2019, midnight Bangkok time. Please note that incomplete applications will not be entertained. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
For more information, visit APWLD.
