Deadline: 7 December 2018
The U.S. Embassy Kyiv of the U.S. Department of State has announced an open competition for organizations to submit applications aimed at supporting free, fair, and transparent Presidential and Parliamentary Elections 2019 in Ukraine.
Projects will increase media organizations’ role in promoting participation, transparency, and integrity based on European standards during Ukraine’s upcoming 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Activities
Proposed projects may include (but are not limited to) the following activities:
- Providing regional reporting on candidates’ platforms, and programs offered by political parties and party coalitions, transparency of election committees, voter registration, violations of election law and other election integrity issues.
- Increasing public participation and awareness of candidates’ platforms and parties/coalition programs through TV and radio debates, thematic inserts, online forums, and press events with presidential candidates and/or political parties or party coalition representatives.
- Encouraging young and first-time voters to exercise their right to vote.
- Identifying and encouraging special groups to increase public participation, including internally displaced persons, Roma, veterans of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, and elderly populations. Content can also focus on specific geographical locations.
- Training journalists on themes including, but not limited to their rights concerning access to information; fact-checking; journalism ethics; and providing balanced and free election coverage.
- Identifying and countering the use of disinformation through pro-active reporting, promoting media literacy, and other creative programs.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $200,000
- Award Ceiling: $20,000
- Award Floor: $7,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Ukrainian media NGOs and independent media outlets (print, radio, TV or electronic).
- Eligible organizations and their members may not represent any political party, or serve as appointed or elected public officials at the time of application or for the duration of the grant. Media organizations, which belong to and/or are financially supported by any political party (other than via intermittent advertising), are not eligible to apply.
- State and local government (communal) owned media are not eligible to apply.
- Eligible organizations may not make any expenditures with their own funds on behalf of candidates, political parties, party coalitions, or their representatives.
- Grant money cannot contribute to any political campaigns or offset the expense of contributing to any political campaign.
- Eligible organizations may not publish or communicate anything that explicitly favors or opposes any political candidate, political party, or party coalition.
- Application to, or receipt of funds from this thematic competition, does not disqualify any organization from competing for other U.S. government funds, including the general competition for the Media Development Fund, or other thematic competitions.
How to Apply
Project proposals must be submitted at the address given on the website.
For more information, visit https://bit.ly/2FszcGw