Women and Africa-China Relations Themed Reporting Grants 2016, Deadline: 25 September 2016

The China-Africa Reporting Project (the Project) and From Africa to China are jointly commissioning a series of Themed Grants aimed at reviewing how women are effecting and affected by China-Africa relations.

The Project will publish the resulting articles in a series of briefings and may also invite contributors to participate in discussion activities. From Africa to China will publish each article and document the process of producing the articles in collaboration with the journalists. All selected journalists will be free to submit their work for publishing independently.

Themes and Awards

• Employment and self-development for women:
  • Vocational and technical training facilities
  • Training of 200,000 local African vocational and technical personnel and providing Africa with 40,000 training opportunities in China
• Resource mobilisation and poverty reduction:
  • To what extent have African states and China mobilized resources (including non-governmentalorganizations) to implement 200 “Happy Life” projects in Africa?
  • How successfully have poverty reduction programmes focusing on women and children been implemented by African states and China?
• Exchanges on gender equality and practical cooperation on women and gender affairs:
  • Dialogues between female leaders, seminars, skills training, human capacity development and cultural exchanges
• Other broader thematic areas:
  • The role of women as actors who are influencing Africa-china relations at both state/leadership and grassroots levels
  • The effects of Africa-China relations on women at both state/leadership and grassroots levels
  • The roles of female practitioners (academics, scholars, politicians, business leaders, journalists) in reporting Africa-China relations

Eligibility Criteria

The grants are open to female journalists from Africa and China.

How to Apply

Interested applicants must submit proposals in a prescribed format via email.

Eligible Countries: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Cote d’Ivorie,Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya,Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia,Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, China.

For more information, please visit Themed Reporting Grants 2016.