Deadline: 31-May-24
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) has announced submissions for the Gender and Communication Rights Program to strengthen public voices and participation of marginalized, excluded and dispossessed people and communities in communication.
WACC seeks to create avenues to raise broader awareness among policy-makers, decision makers, and civil society about the critical role that media and communication play in enabling women and gender minorities to exercise their broader human rights. As such, WACC will work to empower partner organizations to identify and disseminate best practices and lessons learned at various national, regional, and international fora.
WACC seeks civil society partners in DAC-list countries interested in implementing yearlong projects to monitor digital news media using a methodology and tools adapted from WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). Projects may focus on one of three thematic news topics:
- Conflict, peace and security reporting,
- Journalism on gender-based violence,
- Climate change
Funding Information
- WACC will contribute up to EUR 13,000 to the project’s budget.
- WACC will support only up to five (5) projects under this call.
Benefits
- In addition to the grant for a year-long project, partners may be eligible to receive the following forms of support as part of their partnership with WACC:
- Opportunity to attend a knowledge sharing event organized by WACC on the theme of sustainable development and media/communication (pending travel restrictions);
- Opportunity to receive a 600 EUR grant to raise public awareness about the organization’s work;
- Opportunity to work with other WACC partners on a joint initiative to identify and present best practices by attending a national, regional or international conference (pending travel restrictions); and/or
- Opportunity to access resource materials on communication rights and on the link between communication and sustainable development via WACC’s virtual forum for its project partners.
Outcomes
- Projects will achieve the following expected outcomes:
- Quantitative and qualitative evidence on the extent to which reporting in any of the three themes integrates a gender lens.
- Proposals for adaptation of the monitoring instruments and for scaling up the research to the global level.
Who can apply?
- Civil society organizations legally registered in DAC-list countries in Asia, the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and Latin America, are eligible to seek support. WACC will check the standing and credibility of applicants. WACC will consider only one application at a time from each organization. WACC does not accept project applications from individuals or government institutions. WACC supports organizations of all faiths and none.
What does WACC not support?
- Projects whose main purpose is income generation
- Emergency appeals to replace destroyed equipment
- Programmes that are purely denominational in content and outreach
- Purchases and/or maintenance of land, buildings, offices, and vehicles, and recurring expenditures such as rent and utilities
- Institutional operational costs such as regular staff salaries, endowment fund or revolving fund
- Equipment for purely office administration purposes
- Ongoing projects that started before a request for support
- Ongoing or new periodical publications
- Cost of air-time
- Per diems (although direct cost of food and lodging for project activities is supported)
- Debt repayment, contingency and depreciation
- Proposals from individuals not representing an eligible organisation
- Proposals from government entities
- Applications from previous project holders with a poor reporting track record
- Applications previously declined by WACC
- A total budget of more than 30,000 Euros
For more information, visit WACC.