Grants for Reporting on Natural Resource Management in Nepal

Eligibility Criteria: Media outlets in Nepal—including newspapers, online media, radio, television, multimedia platforms, and social media channels— are welcome to apply.
Type of Funding: Grant
Region: Asia
Application Language: English, Nepali

Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering Grants for reporting on Natural Resource Management and green growth in Nepal. The scheme will offer two grants of €4,500 each to media outlets in Nepal. 

Thematics

In Nepal, disasters from unplanned development and the unregulated exploitation of natural resources are on the rise. Studies have indicated that Nepal could lose up to 2.2% of its annual GDP to climate change impacts by 2050.

At this juncture, it is key that the media in Nepal deepen their coverage of the country’s natural resource management and green transition. EJN is seeking ideas providing information on but are not limited to the following issues:

• The impacts of poor governance and inefficient budgetary disbursement on natural resources.
• Corruption and mismanagement practices in natural resource management; identifying corrupt practices that hinder the country’s green growth.
• Natural resource fiscal management, benefit sharing, and ownership mechanisms; royalty distribution and community participation.
• The impacts of unplanned and/or unmonitored development activities on natural resources such as riverine ecosystems and freshwater biodiversity, infrastructure development on mountain ecosystems, etc.
• Government strategies, policies and potentially scalable solutions to manage Nepal’s natural resources more effectively.
• Efforts of Indigenous and local community practices that enhance green growth and support climate resilience.
• Accountability and transparency over natural resource management.

Eligibility 

• Media outlets in Nepal—including newspapers, online media, radio, television, multimedia platforms, and social media channels— are welcome to apply.
• Applications must propose one new media programming idea on the themes noted above and include the production of at least two episodes or stories.
• Selected grantees from first and second cohort (2024 and 2025 seed grant calls, respectively) are not eligible to apply.
• EJN will only be accepting applications in English and Nepali.
• Applicants are required to be transparent about the use of generative AI tools, if any.

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. Please download the budget template here.
• Application should be sent no later than February 15, 2026, 11:59 PM (Asia/Kathmandu). 

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