Reporting Grants for Forest Governance Issues in Africa and Asia

• Eligibility Criteria: Media organizations in Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, Vietnam and Indonesia are eligible to apply. .
• Type of Funding: Grant
• Region: Africa and Asia
• Application Language: English

Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering media organizations reporting grants for forest governance issues in africa and asia. The grant aims to support reporting projects on forest governance that increase media coverage and improve journalists’ capacity to report on the issue. Funding will support nine organizations with grants of 10,000 GBP each, with at least one organization supported in each country.

Forest governance is increasingly recognized as central to global efforts to address climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as poverty and inequality. To highlight the issue, EJN is launching its first call for applications for media grants under its Forest Governance Media Initiative (FGMI).

Thematics

Projects funded by this grant should seek to strengthen the capacity of journalists and media organizations in one or more of the target countries to produce high-quality, evidence-based and engaging stories on forest governance policies, challenges and solutions. Specifically, all projects supported by this grant should at least partly focus on the following country-specific themes:

• Indonesia: Deforestation driven by oil palm plantations and mineral mining, IPLC land rights, forest law enforcement gaps, social forestry, the SVLK timber legality assurance system and FLEGT licensed timber.
• Vietnam: Timber trade, REDD+, implementation of the FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement with the EU, benefit sharing for local communities.
• Cameroon: REDD+, community forestry, illegal logging and related activities, cocoa plantations and forest law enforcement.
• Liberia: Illegal logging, mining and deforestation, financial crimes, EU-Liberia directives and agreements.
• Ghana: Impacts of gold mining and cocoa production on forests, implementation of FLEGT licensing.
• International: International forest governance processes, trade relationships or policies that affect Indonesia, Vietnam, Cameroon, Liberia and Ghana. This can include the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR), REDD+, the Global Biodiversity Framework, etc.

Eligibility 

• This opportunity is open to journalist networks, media organizations, civil society organizations or academic institutions.
• EJN will consider applications by NGOs/environmental groups, provided they help build the capacity of journalists to cover conservation issues. However, it will give preference to applications from or affiliated with professional journalists, media organizations, journalism schools and the like.
• EJN will not consider applications rooted in advocacy or political campaigning.
• Existing or former EJN grantees are eligible to apply.

How to apply

• Applicants should submit proposals by loggin in to or creating an account on the EJN platofrm.
• Applications should provide a detailed budget in an Excel spreadsheet with justification for the amount requested. The budget template can be downloaded here.
• Applications should be sent no later than February 26, 2026, 11:59 PM (Asia/Jakarta). 

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