Deadline: 07-Mar-22
Cultural Survival’s Community Media Program announces its sixth call for proposals for Indigenous community radio projects.
The Indigenous Community Media Fund supports 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.
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.
- 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.
- Community organization related to the rights of Indigenous Peoples, focusing on radio as the main means of engaging with the community.
- Capacity building in new communication technologies (Streaming, servers, links, web pages, online radios, digital press, community TV).
- Intranet networks or broadband installation in stations.
Eligible countries
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Nepal, North India, Botswana, Philippines, Indonesia, Congo, Cambodia, Namibia and South Africa.
Who can participate?
- Indigenous community radio stations
- Network of Indigenous Communicators or group of women communicators
- Media managed by Indigenous peoples and leadership of Indigenous women.
For more information, visit https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/2022-call-proposals-indigenous-community-radio-stations