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International Women’s Media Foundation
http://www.iwmf.org/our-impact/african-great-lakes-reporting-initiative/
Application Information: http://www.iwmf.org/our-impact/african-great-lakes-reporting-initiative/application/
The IWMF is now accepting applications from
women journalists to
participate in one of two international reporting fellowships, both tentatively
scheduled to take place February 13-23, 2015. As part of its African Great
Lakes Reporting Initiative, the IWMF will lead delegations of six journalists
each to Rwanda and Uganda to
cover underreported economic and rural development issues. Deadline to
submit applications is December 20, 2014.
African Great Lakes Reporting
Initiative
http://www.iwmf.org/our-impact/african-great-lakes-reporting-initiative/about-the-initiative/
ABOUT THE INITIATIVE
The IWMF
is proud to announce a $5 million grant from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation
to expand its reporting initiatives in Africa’s Great Lakes region. The African
Great Lakes Reporting Initiative will provide training and support for
in-country women journalists, as well as opportunities for international
correspondents to work in regions of East and Central Africa that receive
limited coverage abroad. These efforts will include essential security training
to help journalists stay safe in the field.
“Women are vital to
international development, so it is critical that their voices are well
represented in the global conversation. The IWMF’s unique programs are designed
to include women’s perspectives in international news reporting. We need more
of those perspectives brought to Africa’s Great Lakes region, a part of the
world that has so much potential and yet faces so many challenges to
development.”
– Howard
G. Buffett
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“Women
are vital to international development, so it is critical that their voices
are well represented in the global conversation. The IWMF’s unique programs
are designed to include women’s perspectives in international news reporting.
We need more of those perspectives brought to Africa’s Great Lakes region, a
part of the world that has so much potential and yet faces so many challenges
to development,” explained Howard G. Buffett. In
addition to continuing its work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2015 the IWMF will lead
groups of women journalists to the Central African Republic, Rwanda, South
Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda to report on the intersections between
conservation and conflict, agriculture and food security, democracy and
governance. Over the next four years, the IWMF plans to work with more than
350 journalists to reshape the media narrative about the region. To
address growing safety concerns for journalists, the IWMF will expand its
security training to benefit both international reporters and hundreds of
journalists living and working in the African Great Lakes region by
conducting hostile environments training for all of its program participants.
In addition, the IWMF will launch its journalism security app, Reporta™, to
facilitate the implementation of security protocols and to gather information
about incidents of violence and threats against journalists around the world.
“Media
organizations, even those with an interest in Africa’s underreported stories,
are hard-pressed to find the resources to pursue them. With the generous
support of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, we will build a network of
journalists around the world devoted to producing outstanding news coverage
in and about Africa.” said Elisa Lees Muñoz, Executive Director of the IWMF. For
more information on how to submit an application, please click here and follow the IWMF on Twitter and Facebook.
Established
in 1999, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation (HGBF) is a private family
foundation working to improve the standard of living and quality of life for
the world’s most impoverished and marginalized populations. The Foundation
looks for opportunities where funding is the catalytic capital that seeds
sustainable, transformational change. |