Deadline: 17-Oct-21
The Thomson Reurters Foundation (TRF) is seeking applications for its LDC5 Journalism Fellowship.
The 5th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) will be one of the biggest gatherings of world leaders in 2022. It aims to set a new and ambitious development agenda for the world’s most vulnerable countries. It needs to deliver on that aim, given that decisions made here could transform the lives of a billion of the world’s most vulnerable people.
On the road to LDC5, the UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) and the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) are partnering to facilitate a bespoke journalism fellowship for journalists from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the autumn of 2021.
The programme will equip a cohort of selected journalists throughout the LDCs with better reporting skills, so that people living in these countries are aware of global decisions being made on their behalf, can connect multilateral processes to their own lives and can hold decision makers to account.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Fellowship is open to applications from journalists with a minimum of five years of experience who are reporting in any of the 46 Least Developed Countries.
- The Fellowship is open to applications from journalists with a minimum of five years of experience and a good level of spoken and written French or English who are reporting in any of the 46 Least Developed Countries.
- Applicants must have a passport for international travelling valid until Jan 2023 (at least).
- Applications must include proof that the applicant is working for local media and publishing for local audiences. In the case of freelance journalists, proof of regular publication by a recognized local media is required.
- The UN-OHRLLS reserves the right to verify the eligibility of all applicants.
Selected Fellows will:
Take part in an online training programme by region
- 15 – 26 November 2021 – Group C (conducted in English):
- Mozambique, Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Comoros, Madagascar, Tanzania
- 29 November – 10 December 2021 – Group A (conducted in French)
- Haiti, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Guinea, Burundi, Djibouti, Senegal, Benin, Chad, Mauritania, Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo
- 29 November – 10 December 2021 – Group D (conducted in English)
- Afghanistan, Yemen, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Kiribati, Bhutan, Lao PDR, Nepal
- 30 November – 16 December 2021 – Group B (conducted in English)
- Central African Republic, Guiné-Bissau, Liberia, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho, Rwanda, Gambia, São Tomé e Príncipe, Sierra Leone.
- Be offered the opportunity to travel and participate in the LDC5 conference in Doha, Qatar
- Take part in a 2-day in-person workshop with TRF trainers at LDC5
- Receive guidance from Thomson Reuters Foundation trainers for the duration of LDC5
- One outstanding fellow will be selected for a fully-funded fellowship in the autumn of 2022 at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.
For more information, visit https://www.trust.org/media-development/opportunities/?sfid=a053z00000uqkdkAAA&sfProgId=a15D0000018F0LaIAK&areaOfFocus=Media%20Sustainability