Funding opportunity on SDGs Reporting Open (Ghana)

Deadline: 10 October 2017

As part of efforts to mainstream the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in development reporting in Ghana, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ghana, is offering funding opportunity to Ghanaian journalists to support quality and thorough reporting that focus on the SDGs.

This initiative forms part of activities under MFWA’s project ‘Mainstreaming the SDGs in Development Reporting.’ The project seeks to advance public knowledge on the SDGs to ensure inclusive and participatory delivery of the Goals in Ghana.

Also under the project will be an Awards ceremony to reward four (4) best SDGs stories in Ghana whether such stories were financially supported by the MFWA or not.

Funding Information

Best Story Gets GHC 10,000

Eligibility Criteria

• The funding opportunity is opened to journalists from print, electronic and online media.
• Applicants must be journalists currently working with and for a recognised Ghanaian media organisation.
• Stories to be supported under this call must be produced and published/broadcast between September 1 and October 9, 2017.
• An entry for the SDGs Reporting Awards must have been published or broadcast between July 1, and October 9, 2017.
• The entry should be an original work published through a media outlet in Ghana and must show date of publication/broadcast and the medium in which the work was published.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted at the address given on the website.

Eligible Country: Ghana

For more information, please visit MFWA.