Aswatona Fund for Media Development: Strengthening the Voices of Women, Youth & Rural Communities, Deadline: 9 September 2016

Applications are open for the Aswatona Fund for Media Development funded by European Union with a motive to foster media pluralism, public voice and civil society participation in the media and to strengthen the voices of women, youth, remote and rural communities, and marginalised groups.

Organisations supported by the Aswatona Fund will be locally-based, independent media and civil society organisations, plus key stakeholders including professionals associations.

Grant Information

• Exchange of experience and good practice: Grants in the range 1,000 EURO to 3,000 EURO to support exchanges between two or more countries involving media, civil society and/or educational organisations.
• Audience development and sustainability: Grants in the range 2,000 EURO to 10,000 EURO for activities that contribute to improvements in media coverage, audience awareness, media sustainability, media literacy and audience engagement, including listener clubs and public accountability measures.
• Social action and cultural content production: Grants in the range 2,000 EURO to 10,000 EURO for activities that consist of media productions of social action or cultural value, including transnational productions, leading to broadcast campaigns including on gender and equal opportunities, rights of minorities and indigenous people, right of disabled people, environment, youth, elections anddemocracy.
• Promotion of media policy dialogue: Grants in the range 2,000 EURO to 10,000 EURO for country level and regional activities that bring together policy makers, regulators, public officials and civil society organisations to promote media policy dialogue and better enabling environments for community media.
• Network development and solidarity: Grants in the range 5,000 EURO to 15,000 EURO for thematic regional or sub-regional events on community media development to promote co-operation, exchange, solidarity and dialogue.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Fund is not open to individual applications.
• Organisations to be eligible must be legally registered entities, not run for profit, not affiliated with any political or religious organisation, and primarily working in one or more of the below mentioned countries.

How to Apply

Interested applicants must apply online via given website.

Eligible Countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Syria orTunisia.

For more information, please visit Aswatona Fund for Media Development.