Deadline: 12-Feb-21
Cultural Survival’s Community Media Program announces its 5th call for proposals for Indigenous community radio projects to support community radio and other media platforms run by Indigenous Peoples as tools to strengthen their broadcast infrastructure and systems, and provide training opportunities in journalism, broadcasting, audio editing, technical skills and more to Indigenous community radio journalists and media producers around the world.
The purpose of the Indigenous Community Media Fund is to strengthen the impact and influence of Indigenous radio through improvements in radio station infrastructure, internal organization, programming, political and community advocacy, new and better production capacities, as well as systematization of successful management experiences.
The Fund supports stations in revitalizing Indigenous cultures, identities, languages, histories, worldviews, and promoting Indigenous rights, the protection of ancestral territories and natural resources, as well as in elevating the leadership of women and youth communicators.
Funding Information
- Individual radio stations can apply up to $6,000 USD.
Cultural Survival is interested in, but not limited to, the following types of communication projects:
- Legal processes to access radio frequencies for Indigenous community stations (Applies to Mexico only).
- Institutional development for community radio stations including: strategic planning, radio sustainability (financial, organization, contents and legal areas), development of a board of directors, development of environmental policies, gender policies, design and implementation of personnel security protocols, monitoring and evaluation.
- Capacity building and technical skills in radio recording, editing, production, community investigative journalism, coverage in emergency situations, maintenance, repair and assembly of radio equipment, and the management of an Indigenous community radio station.
- Evaluation of the radio station’s reach and the impact of radio programs on local communities.
- Development of radio content on topics related to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), decolonized histories of Indigenous Peoples, strengthening of Indigenous identities, protection of lands, territories and natural resources, news development, rights of Indigenous women and issues on gender, cultural and ancestral heritage, national legislation impacting the rights of Indigenous Peoples, public debates, literacy in mother tongues and Free, Prior and Informed Consent.
- Updating and purchase of new radio equipment (limited to 30% of the total grant budget.)
- Community organization related to the rights of Indigenous Peoples, focusing on radio as the main means of engaging with the community.
- Internships at other community radio stations for skill-building.
- Systematization and sharing of successful management experiences.
- Capacity building in new communication technologies (Streaming, servers, links, web pages, online radios, digital press, community TV.)
Eligible countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Nepal, north-east India, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.
Eligibility Criteria
- Indigenous community radio stations;
- Indigenous communicators networks;
- Indigenous community radio networks (with more than three radio stations);
- Other media managed by Indigenous Peoples.
For more information, visit https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/2021-call-proposals-indigenous-community-radio-stations