Call for Proposals: Community Radio Transmitters

Deadline: 02-Jul-21

The Cultural Survival is launching its second call for proposals for Community Radio Transmitters Program. It is for Indigenous community radio stations to acquire transmitters and complementary equipment.

Cultural Survival advocates for Indigenous Peoples’ rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience since 1972. They promote the creations, visions, and dissemination of communication initiatives from the perspectives, experiences, and knowledge of Indigenous Peoples.

This call for proposals seeks to strengthen the communication capacity of community radio stations in the regions where Cultural Survival works, including Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Additionally, this call for proposals is specifically geared towards those radio stations that have demonstrated work in the area of revitalization of Indigenous languages, and to those that have promoted access to and educational outreach to Indigenous youth within their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

These grants will support projects in the field of Indigenous community radio that meet the following criteria:

Promote educational practices via community radio, literacy, and remote education during the pandemic, especially where Indigenous communities have difficulty accessing the internet.
Strengthen and use Indigenous languages within their programs.
Radio stations that have recently started similar projects which are ongoing for at least 6 months, and are developing content geared towards children will be considered.

Funding Information

The maximum grant amount awarded will be $4000 USD.

Eligibility Criteria

Indigenous community radio stations.
Indigenous organizations and collectives working on collaborative radio productions.
The following criteria must be met to apply:
- Radio stations in Latin America, Namibia, Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Nepal, and India.
- Demonstrate radio content (capsules, programs, podcasts, spots and campaigns) related to the promotion and use of the Indigenous languages and the use of radio in literacy and education support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Three letters of recommendation from any of the following two sectors:
  - traditional authorities, community and grassroots organizations, that support and recognize the work of the radio station; or
  - schools with whom collaborative work has been carried out.
- Demonstrate the need for a transmitter and complementary equipment.
- The radio must be a station committed to the development of its community through its educational, informative, and opinion content.
- Have not been beneficiaries or prior grant partners in Cultural Survival’s previous calls for transmitters.
- Have successfully completed projects, if they have been partners of Cultural Survival in the past in other grant calls.