Media Engagement Activity in BIH – Rolling Innovation Fund

• Eligibility Criteria: To be eligible for the USAID Media Engagement Activity in BiH:
  – Independent content creators applying for the Call must be citizens residing in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). They must also provide brief biographies (CVs), including links to previous stories content and the contacts of two references.;
  – In the case of legal entities (media organisations), applicants must be registered in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Application Language: a B/H/S language version or English

The goal of Internews’ activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina through USAID Media Engagement Activity (MEA) is to strengthen the information space in BiH.

The Rolling Innovation Fund is an open-call funding opportunity under the USAID MEA project implemented by Internews in partnership with FHI 360 and local partners, open to all the media, civil society organisations and individual media professionals interested in developing innovative solutions in content creation and distribution.

Through this Fund, the Media Engagement Activity will support projects that explore new approaches in the media industry or search for new ways of using existing methods. They welcome ideas that aim to improve the quality and reach of diverse content, using new and insufficiently researched channels of transmitting credible information to a wider audience.

Your ideas may include, but are not limited to:

• Use of relevant new technological and digital trends;
• Experimental media to target underreported, younger, or hard-to-reach audiences;
• Re-purposing of the existing content;
• Use of data analytics for improvement of content production;
• Use of data visualisation in storytelling;
• Exploring new platforms and formats;
• Renewing trust between media outlets and audience;
• scrollytelling; and
• piloting new approaches to marketing, monetisation, and business models.

Eligible costs

Examples of eligible costs under this grant call:

• Time of staff members/consultants working the proposed project
• Applicable fringe benefits (income tax; health insurance)
• Materials and supplies needed to complete the project
• Services needed to complete the project
• Local travel associated with reporting or audience research for the project (in BiH only)

Funding information

This fund is available for individual applications (up to $2,950) and media organisations (up to $12,000 each).

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