Deadline: 22-Apr-22
The Africa-China Reporting Project (ACRP) at the Wits Centre for Journalism in Johannesburg and China Dialogue invite African investigative journalists to apply for climate-focused reporting grants.
The United Nations climate negotiations will return to Africa. African countries are already facing the impacts of climate change, and engaging in a lively conversation on low-carbon development pathways and adaptation, including calling for greater availability of finance.
Themes
The following themes are offered as a guide to help journalists identify specific topics for investigation:
- Climate impacts, mitigation and adaptation
- Energy access and energy transitions
- Just transitions and the social aspects of development
- Critical mineral mining, especially those related to the global energy transition
- Low carbon transportation and electrification
Relevance and Focus
- Relevance is of crucial importance for the ACRP to select proposals that closely adhere to its core ethos, i.e. the ACRP facilitates journalists to investigate complex dynamics and uncover untold stories, with an emphasis on on-the-ground impact and perspectives to illustrate how the lives of the people of Africa are changing amid the comprehensive phenomenon of Africa-China interactions.
- The main objective is for journalists to investigate stories that illustrate how the lives of the people of Africa are being impacted, or how they themselves are shaping their own lives and futures.
- Usually proposals supported by the ACRP will employ the prism of Africa-China relations, i.e. the activities and impact of the Chinese government, companies, financiers and individuals in Africa, to conduct the investigation; but it is not in all cases a requirement to include an overt China angle or involvement. With the Public Health Reporting Grants in 2020, for example, the ACRP selected some proposals that did not have an explicit China focus but that closely adhere to the ACRP’s main objective as outlined above.
Funding Information
- Applicants will be provided with a reporting grant of between US$1,000 and US$1,500 to investigate issues related to the China-Africa relationship and the climate crisis.
Eligibility Criteria
The ACRP requires successful proposals submitted by journalists to be:
- Relevant and focused, and broadly aligned with ACRP requirements, i.e. With a relatively narrow focus around specific projects or issues
- Making use of individuals or communities to tell the story with on-the-ground impact and perspectives
- Detailed and thorough but well organised, comprising a clear “headline” at the outset with a corresponding explanation that effectively “sells” the investigation and its importance in the current climate
For more information, visit https://africachinareporting.com/call-for-applications-china-africa-relationship-and-the-climate-crisis/