Deadline: 7-Jun-21
British Council has announced the applications for its Women Reporters on Climate Change.
Women in Nepal are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with issues such as rising water scarcity and more frequent and intense natural disasters dis-proportionality affecting them.
Women are also increasingly seen as crucial leaders in the fight against climate change. This means that reporting on women in Nepal in the context of climate change is becoming ever more vital.
Through the Road to COP26 campaign, the British Council is offering women reporters in Nepal the chance to take part in a specialised five-week media workshop on the links between gender and climate change, followed by mentoring and grant support to publish original reportage. The workshops and mentoring will be virtual.
Course Outline
- Week 1
- Overview of climate science, basics of gender and climate
- Workshop: Reporting on science papers
- Week 2
- Climate impacts in Nepal, impacts of climate change in Nepal on women, climate attribution
- Workshop: Solutions journalism
- Week 3
- Empowering women as a climate solution, agriculture and women in Nepal, gender representation in reporting, Nepal and climate change in international media
- Workshop: Narrative forms and creative formats
- Week 4
- Women and climate adaptation, how to find climate stories, climate migration
- Workshop: Perfect your pitch
- Week 5
- The Paris Agreement and COP26, Nepal’s role in UN climate negotiations, climate change and gender in UK media
- Workshop: Finalising grant proposals
Funding Information
- Throughout the workshop, participants will develop their own story relating to climate and gender, focussed on their local community and areas. On completion of the workshop they will receive a reporting grant to support the development and publication of this story. You will need to have completed the workshop, written a developed proposal of your non-fiction, reported story, and submitted a budget proposal to receive the attached grant.
- Grant awards will range between NPR 75,000 to 150,000 and will depend on the scale of reporting required for the story.
- They will accept stories which will be published in the following formats: print, radio, television, online. Grant outputs should be published by 30 September. You can submit pitch(es) and tentative budget(s) for your idea(s) through the application form.
Eligibility Criteria
- This workshop is designed for Nepali reporters who are interested in exploring the intersections of climate change and gender. They are looking for people from across Nepal’s diverse geography and climate zone who are currently reporting on their local contexts through digital, television, print or radio using journalistic, multimedia, and creative outputs.
- This workshop is designed to support those who identify as women, female, LGBTIQ+. They encourage those with disabilities and from minority communities to apply.
- To apply for this opportunity, you must:
- Be a Nepali citizen
- Be female-identifying, women-identifying, queer, trans, intersex and/or non-binary
- Have an interest in exploring and reporting on climate change and gender, even if you’ve never reported on this before.
- Be aged 18 and above on 7 June 2021
For more information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.org.np/workshop-and-grant-opportunity-women-reporters-climate-change