- Grant Amount – $500
- Deadline – June 10, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
The Environmental Defenders is pleased to launch a new call for news reporting grant proposals from journalists in Uganda.
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This initiative will support 10 original, in-depth, and investigative stories focused on critical environmental and human rights issues in the Albertine region.
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This call comes at a time when forests, biodiversity, and frontline communities across the Albertine region are highly threatened by extractive industries, land grabbing, displacements and land degradation for industrial and social infrastructure development.
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The initiative seeks to empower local voices through journalism that educates, informs, investigates, and promotes environmental and human rights, holding duty bearers and perpetrators accountable.
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Aims
- They aim to:
- Promote environmental reporting from rural and underreported forest-dependent communities.
- Expose economic practices harmful to the environment and highlight grassroots solutions.
- Promote the flow of credible (fact-based) information to the public and policymakers.
Thematic Areas
- Story pitches must cover one or more of the following:
- The story pitches should address the impact of oil project developments on environmental and human rights.
- The effect of huge and ever-expanding agricultural businesses, like sugarcane growing, monoculture forestry plantations, biodiversity, and land rights.
- Rapid economic developments are leading to changes in wildlife movement patterns and habitats.
- The ecosystems of Lake Albert, fishing communities, and shoreline livelihoods are under threat.
- The impact of land use changes and extractive projects on women and youth is gendered.
Funding Information
- Environmental Defenders will award $500 to each of the 10 journalists qualifying for the grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- The opportunity is available to Ugandan journalists, whether freelance or staff, who are employed in radio, print, online, or multimedia platforms.
- Applicants must have demonstrated experience in environmental or human rights reporting.
- They especially encourage applications from rural-based journalists, international and national journalists working in the Albertine region, women reporters, and young journalists, among others.
- Formats and Story Lengths:
- Written investigative articles: 800 to 2,500 words.
- Radio programs, features, or podcast stories have a maximum length of 10 to 30 minutes.
- Radio documentaries or features should be between 5 and 15 minutes long.
- Multimedia storytelling or data-driven pieces.
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