SADC Water Fellowships: apply now!
Call for Applications / SADC Water Fellowships: Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
Deadline: 15 March 2013
Applications are invited for the SADC Water Fellowships offered by Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa as part of its SADC programme on reporting on water issues in southern Africa, the Southern Africa Water Wire (SAWW). The SADC Water Fellowship will be awarded to three fellows from the SADC region to produce a short documentary, photo reportage or short publication that tells a compelling story of the importance of water as a resource in any one of the SADC river basins. The story telling should draw the linkages between water as a life-giving resource and any one of the range of development objectives and priorities that are critical to the sustainability of water resources. Applicants can address issues of water management; water governance, infrastructure development, capacity development, climate change adaptation, and/or social development, making the critical linkage between these priorities and the impact on ordinary people.
Three fellowships will be awarded up to a maximum of US$8000. The winners will have four months to produce their outputs. Each fellow will be guided and supported by a media mentor selected by IPS to ensure the best possible story telling. The fellows will present their productions at a major event to be held later in 2013.
Application procedure
Applicants should submit concepts that outline, in no more than two pages:
-Your story idea
-The geographical area you intend to cover
-Who you would speak to/interview as part of your story
-The medium you intend to use and why
-Your expected overall budget
Applications that get through the first round will be expected to further develop their ideas into a proposal with a detailed budget to compete in a second and final round. The deadline for concept submissions is 15 March. Successful applicants for the second round will be informed by 29 March.
Please send your concept, together with your CV to africahq [at] ips [dot] org with the subject line SAWW Fellowship_your name. Due to the high volume of applications we receive only successful short listed applicants will be responded to.
Eligibility & Criteria
-Applicants must be nationals of any SADC member state and currently residing within the SADC region
-Applicants must have completed or be in the final year of tertiary media training and be able to demonstrate a specialisation in the medium they intend to use in their story telling
-Proposals may be submitted for story telling in any medium – print, audio, video, stills, animation, etc or a combination
-Applicants can be groups or individuals
-The story of water can be told in English, French, or Portuguese but please specify which language you intend to use for each output.
Applications from women and people with disabilities are encouraged.
About IPS Africa Inter Press Service (IPS) is a communication institution with a global news agency at its core. IPS Africa is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa with a regional office in Cotonou, Benin. Focusing on Africa’s untold stories, IPS strives to produce regular features and multi-media products focusing on development issues. The Southern Africa Water Wire provides in-depth coverage of a range of water-related issues in Southern Africa, linking water to economic development, social well being and environmental protection. Local journalists from across the region explore the challenges, failures and successes of managing this vital resource.