Deadline- 15 March 2013
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa is pleased to invite eligible applicants for Southern African Development Community(SADC) Water Fellowships program reporting on water issues in southern Africa, the Southern Africa Water Wire (SAWW). The mission of this program is to address issues of water management; water governance, infrastructure development, capacity development, climate change adaptation, and/or social development, making the critical linkage between these priorities and the impact on ordinary people.
Through this program three fellows from the SADC region will be awarded to produce a short documentary, photo reportage or short publication that tells a compelling story of the importance of water as a resource in any one of the SADC river basins. The story telling should draw the linkages between water as a life-giving resource and any one of the range of development objectives and priorities that are critical to the sustainability of water resources.
Fellowship offers-
Three fellowships will be awarded up to a maximum of US$8000. The winners will have four months to produce their outputs. Each fellow will be guided and supported by a media mentor selected by IPS to ensure the best possible story telling.
Submission required-
- Applicants should submit concepts that outline, in no more than two pages-
- Story idea
- The geographical area applicant intend to cover
- Who applicant would speak to/interview as part of story
- The medium applicant intend to use and why
- Expected overall budget
- Please send concept, together with CV.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Applicants must be nationals of any SADC member state and currently residing within the SADC region
- Applicants must have completed or be in the final year of tertiary media training and be able to demonstrate a specialisation in the medium they intend to use in their story telling
- Proposals may be submitted for story telling in any medium – print, audio, video, stills, animation, etc or a combination
- Applicants can be groups or individuals
- The story of water can be told in English, French, or Portuguese but please specify which language you intend to use for each output.
- Applications from women and people with disabilities are encouraged.
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