Sawt Media Fellowships Support Program

Sawt Activity is thrilled to announce the launch of Sawt Media Fellowships Support Program for the year 2024.

This initiative aims to empower journalists and media practitioners by providing them with needed support to pursue fellowships or attend events abroad, enhancing their skills, knowledge, professionalism, and specialisation in key thematic areas that align with Sawt’s priorities, including civic participation and engagement, human rights, sustainable development and environment.

About Sawt

The Strengthening Civil Society and Media Systems (Sawt) Activity is a five-year (2022-2027) cooperative agreement funded by USAID and implemented by Internews in partnership with Mercy Corps and the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL).

Sawt will create a Virtuous Cycle of Civic Engagement through two objectives:

• Good, trusted knowledge-building resource: improve community knowledge on their rights and relevant issues through access to fact-based, trusted, and reliable content from digital media, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and other civic spaces, and
• Participation and Advocacy: increasing opportunities for citizens to participate in regular constructive civic dialogue through building CSO and citizen advocacy capacity to increase trust and government accountability.

About Sawt Media Fellowships Support Program

• For the current year, 2024, USAID Sawt aims to select two journalists and media practitioners applying to benefit from this support program.
• The fellowships and events, for which the applicant is requesting Sawt’s support to join or attend, should preferably take place and conclude during 2024.
• Selected applicants will receive full or partial support with a funding ceiling of up to $12,000, supporting them to join or attend media fellowship and international events that the applicants identify.

Applicants are encouraged to seek fellowships and events that are held in Arabic or English and thematically align with Sawt’s priorities, which include:

• Civic Participation and Engagement
• Human Rights
• Sustainable and Community Development
• Environment and Climate Change

How to apply

The application deadline for this is September 14, 2024. To learn more and apply, please click here.