Deadline: October 26, 2023
Applications are open for the EJN Media Grants to Strengthen Media Coverage of Environmental Crimes in the Amazon 2024. Internews’ EJN, in alliance with USAID and WCS, is offering organizational grants of $5,000 to $12,000 to media outlets, NGOs, academic institutions, and other interested groups to support media and journalism activities related to environmental crimes in the Amazon Region in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
This opportunity seeks to strengthen the capacity of media outlets, journalist organizations or associations, and Indigenous and community-based organizations involved in communication and journalistic reporting to produce high-quality, factual and engaging public information about the impacts of environmental crimes in the Amazon.
Interested organizations will be awarded grants on the strength of their proposals to produce training courses, run workshops and webinars, and support the production of investigative and/or collaborative stories on environmental crimes. Selected media grantees will receive guidance, feedback and editorial support from Internews’ Americas team and EJN.
Grants
- They anticipate supporting 5-8 organizations with funding of $5,000 to $12,000 each. In general, proposals with smaller budgets will be more competitive. Larger grant amounts will be considered for projects that use innovative approaches and may be more resource- and time consuming.
Eligibility
- Media organizations, networks of journalists and/or communicators, universities, and journalistic institutions focusing on environmental crimes reporting in the Amazon region are invited to apply.
- Civil society organizations, community groups and research institutes will also be considered, provided they operate with strong media and communication components. Note that they will not consider applications focused on advocacy, activism or political campaigning.
- They welcome applications from organizations in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, with a preference for those with established networks in the Amazon region and those willing to carry out transboundary work involving the four target countries that are the focus of the project. They generally prefer to support organizations that carry out work in the country where they are based, but they will consider applications from organizations seeking to collaborate with groups in the Amazon region of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.
- Organizations must be legally registered in their country and maintain a bank account with the capacity to receive international funds.
- For this grant opportunity, they will only accept applications in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Unfortunately, they cannot consider applications in other languages at this time. Applicants must either have a working understanding of English, Spanish or Portuguese or have a translator available to assist in communication with Internews staff. However, note that project activities, such as publishing stories, can be conducted in any language.
- Organizations that have received support from Internews or EJN in the past are eligible and EJN will consider past performance during the selection process.
- EJN reserves the right to disqualify applicants who have engaged in unethical or improper professional conduct.
Judging Criteria
Applications will be evaluated using the following assessment criteria:
- The overall quality of the proposal;
- The relevance of the proposed project to the objectives and priorities of this grant program and the Together for Conservation project goals;
- The emphasis in the proposal on environmental crimes in the Amazon region;
- The potential impact of the proposed project, including the quality and effectiveness of the project design;
- The innovative characteristics of the proposed activities;
- The financial viability and cost-effectiveness of the proposed project;
- The ability of the applicant to carry it out;
- The geographical spread of the grantees.
Application
Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered. Consider submitting it at least one day before the deadline to avoid any issues.
For more information, visit EJN Grants.
