Deadline: January 30, 2025
Applications are open for the Earth Journalism Network Asia Pacific Media Grants 2025. They are seeking innovative project ideas from media outlets, journalism institutions and other organizations that work directly with media or content creators in the Asia-Pacific region.
Proposed activities should seek to:
- Strengthen the capacity of journalists and media organizations to produce high-quality, evidence-based and engaging environmental stories on the consequences of human impacts on the environment and viable solutions to mitigate and respond to these impacts.
- Improve the quality and quantity of content and/or media coverage on key environmental themes to focus public attention on the interdependence of the health and well-being of humans and their environments.
- Direct public attention to the disproportionate impacts of environmental degradation on women, the poor, youth, Indigenous Peoples, ethnic minorities and other vulnerable groups and increase these groups’ access to high-quality, publicly available environmental information.
- Contribute to positive changes in environmental governance, policy actions, environmental standards in the private sector or consumer habits for a more sustainable way of life.
Project Themes
For this round, they are particularly interested in proposals that focus on one or more of the following themes:
- Under-reported environmental issues and their linkages with health, organized crime, migration, conflict and other issues
- The interdependence of the health and well-being of humans, animals and their environments
- Environmental governance and natural resource management
- The energy transition and climate financing
- Viable environmental solutions for community resilience in the face of interconnected environmental crises
They welcome proposals that seek to:
- Incorporate the ethical use of AI as a tool to support journalists in their reporting on environmental issues.
- Work with social media content creators or include social media outreach to access a diverse and widespread audience online.
- Work with marginalized groups, such as women, youth, Indigenous People, ethnic minority groups. people with disabilities, or poor households.
Funding
- This grant fund has US$100,000 available for awards this year, which would ideally be shared among 5-6 projects. The grant amount can range between US$15,000 to US$20,000 depending on the scope of the proposed activities.
Eligibility
- This round of grants will be focused on supporting media outlets, journalism institutions and other organizations that work directly with media or content creators in the Asia-Pacific region. Applicant organizations must be legally permitted to receive grants from foreign organizations.
- Civil society organizations, community-based groups and research institutions will not be eligible for this round.
- For the purpose of this call, they are only accepting applications from low-and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region. They are unfortunately unable to accept applications from Pakistan and Central Asian or Middle Eastern countries.
- EJN reserves the right to disqualify applicants from consideration if they have been found to have engaged in unethical or improper professional conduct, including, but not limited to, plagiarism and submitting AI-generated content as their own.
Judging Criteria
The jury evaluates all eligible applications in a comparative context and makes funding decisions based on the availability of funds, the program objectives, and the following assessment criteria:
- overall quality of the proposal and effectiveness of the project design
- relevance of the proposed project in contributing to the objectives and priorities of this grant program
- potential of proposed project to bring about positive change
- innovativeness of the proposed activities
- financial viability and cost-effectiveness of the proposed project
- the ability of the applicant to carry it out;
- The long-term sustainability of the project and of the organization
- geographical spread of the grantees
Application
For more information, visit EJN Asia Pacific Media Grants.
