Asia-Pacific Media Grants 2025

• Eligibility Criteria
  – This round of grants will be focused on supporting media outlets, journalism institutions and other organisations that work directly with media or content creators in the Asia-Pacific region. Applicant organisations must be legally permitted to receive grants from foreign organisations.;
  – Civil society organisations, community-based groups and research institutions will not be eligible for this round;
  – For the purpose of this call, they are only accepting applications from low-and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region. They are unfortunately unable to accept applications from Pakistan and Central Asian or Middle Eastern countries;
  – EJN reserves the right to disqualify applicants from consideration if they have been found to have engaged in unethical or improper professional conduct, including, but not limited to, plagiarism and submitting AI-generated content as their own.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Asia-Pacific
• Application Language: English

The Earth Journalism Network is pleased to announce a new round of media grants through its Asia-Pacific Phase 2 project, which aims to boost the quantity and quality of environmental coverage in the region and amplify the perspectives of at-risk communities.

Objectives

Proposed activities should seek to:

• Strengthen the capacity of journalists and media organisations to produce high-quality, evidence-based and engaging environmental stories on the consequences of human impacts on the environment and viable solutions to mitigate and respond to these impacts.
• Improve the quality and quantity of content and/or media coverage on key environmental themes to focus public attention on the interdependence of the health and well-being of humans and their environments.
• Direct public attention to the disproportionate impacts of environmental degradation on women, the poor, youth, Indigenous Peoples, ethnic minorities and other vulnerable groups and increase these groups’ access to high-quality, publicly available environmental information.
• Contribute to positive changes in environmental governance, policy actions, environmental standards in the private sector or consumer habits for a more sustainable way of life.

Project themes

For this round, we are particularly interested in proposals that focus on one or more of the following themes:

• Under-reported environmental issues and their linkages with  health, organised crime, migration, conflict and other issues
• The interdependence of the health and well-being of humans, animals and their environments
• Environmental governance and natural resource management
• The energy transition and climate financing
• Viable environmental solutions for community resilience in the face of interconnected environmental crises

They welcome proposals that seek to:

• Incorporate the ethical use of AI as a tool to support journalists in their reporting on environmental issues.
• Work with social media content creators or include social media outreach to access a diverse and widespread audience online
• Work with marginalised groups, such as women, youth, Indigenous People, ethnic minority groups. people with disabilities, or poor households

Funding Information

• This grant fund has US$100,000 available for awards this year, which would ideally be shared among 5-6 projects.
• The grant amount can range between US$15,000 to US$20,000 depending on the scope of the proposed activities.

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