Deadline: 15-Jun-2020
The U.S. Embassy in Cameroon announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to identify and celebrate, such as through an award ceremony, examples of high-quality journalism in Cameroon.
Program Objectives
- Promote ethical, high-quality journalism in Cameroon by bringing positive attention to examples of excellence in the profession and recognizing best practices being observed.
- Encourage journalists practicing high-quality journalism to continue doing so.
- Raise awareness with the public and among journalists about what high-quality, ethical journalism looks like.
- Provide role models for other journalists, especially younger generations and journalism students, who demonstrate through their work that it is possible to practice high-quality journalism in the challenging Cameroonian context.
Funding Information
- Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of $15,000 to a maximum of $25,000
- Total available funding: $25,000
- Length of performance period: 4 to 8 months
The following types of activities are not eligible for funding:
- Scholarships for study in the United States or to fund conference attendance or study tours to the United States
- Activities that are inherently political in nature or that contain the appearance of partisanship
- Construction activities
- Programs that support specific religious activities
- Fund-raising campaigns
- Cash prizes for participants
Participants and Audiences:
The work of any Cameroonian journalist (print, broadcast, or online), including professional bloggers, who are working in Cameroon is eligible for consideration within this grant. All types of journalism should be included in a representative fashion. Younger journalists and journalism students are the primary audience for the program objectives, although the work of journalists of all ages should be evaluated to find the examples that best represent journalism excellence in Cameroon.
Eligibility Criteria
- PAS encourages applications from the United States and Cameroon:
- Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks, community associations, and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience
- Individuals
- Non-profit media organizations
- Professional trade organizations
- Non-profit or governmental educational institutions
- For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.
Please ensure:
- The proposal clearly addresses the goals and objectives of this funding opportunity
- All documents are in English
- All budgets are in U.S. dollars
- All pages are numbered
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