Deadline: 31-Jan-23
UNESCO is pleased to announce the launch of the call for project submission to the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC).
Aims
The IPDC Bureau supports projects that aim at:
- Supporting media pluralism (particularly community media) and independence (improving self-regulation and professional standards);
- Promoting the safety of journalists;
- Countering hate speech in media and social media, promoting conflict-sensitive journalism practice and/or promoting cross-cultural/cross-religious dialogue among journalists;
- Supporting law reform fostering media independence;
- Conducting media assessments and research based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators (MDIs), the Gender Sensitive Indicators for the Media (GSIM), the Internet Universality Indicators, the Journalists’ Safety Indicators, or the Media Viability indicators
- Capacity building for journalists and media managers, including improving journalism education (for example, using one of UNESCO’s handbooks for journalism education).
Priority Areas
- Supporting media pluralism (particularly community media) and independence (improving self-regulation and professional standards)…
- Promoting the safety of journalists
- Countering hate speech in media and social media, promoting conflict-sensitive journalism practice and/or promoting cross-cultural/cross-religious dialogue among journalists
- Supporting law reform that fosters media independence
- Conducting media assessments and research based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators, Gender Sensitive Indicators for the Media, the Internet Universality Indicators, Journalists’ Safety Indicators or Media Viability Indicators
- Capacity building for journalists and media managers, including improving journalism education using UNESCO´s Model Curricula for Journalism Education
Funding Information
Grant: 10,000 USD up to 35,000 USD
Eligible countries: Lebanon or a regional project
Criteria
- Incomplete proposals will not be considered.
- Be precise (numbers, locations, actors, beneficiaries…) to increase the chances of your proposal being approved.
- Be realistic and specific in terms of goals and activities. Don’t forget to allocate time for project design, logistics planning, team confirmation and outreach as these are key factors to your success.
- Show evidence (examples and data) to justify how the project will add value to the media sector or enabling environment more broadly.
- One common reason of proposal rejection is poor or incorrect budget justification. Please provide a clear budget breakdown; avoid overestimation of the budget; and only include eligible budget lines that correspond to the content of the project.
- Make sure your project’s outcomes, activities, outputs and budget match. Show how your project achievements will be made sustainable without further assistance from IPDC, once the grant has ended (new partners and donors).
- Be alert to communicating well how your proposed activity will result in change and go beyond the output level (e.g. Increased skills among journalists in covering sustainable development) to encompass an outcome (e.g. More and better journalistic coverage on sustainable development), and how this will implicate impact (e.g. help to increase accountability for achieving sustainable development).
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