SIWI Journalist Grant (no later than 30 April)

SIWI offers five jour­nal­ists from low or low-mid­dle income nations the oppor­tu­ni­ty to vis­it World Water Week which takes place in Stock­holm between 26 – 31 August 2018.

The SIWI Jour­nal­ist Grant cov­ers:

• Round-trip air tick­et to Stock­holm, Swe­den
• Pub­lic (or equiv­a­lent) trans­port between air­port and hotel on arrival and depar­ture
• Full week reg­is­tra­tion fee for World Water Week
• Cer­tain social events dur­ing World Water Week
• Hotel stay dur­ing World Water Week
• Meals on half board dur­ing World Water Week
• Per diem for meals not pro­vid­ed at World Water Week venue

The SIWI Jour­nal­ist Grant does not cov­er:

• Visa, and visa-relat­ed costs
• Any insur­ance
• Trans­port in Stock­holm (exclud­ing pub­lic trans­port to and from Arlan­da air­port)
• Any extras

Who is eli­gi­ble to apply?

• You must be a cit­i­zen of a nation list­ed as a low- or low-mid­dle income coun­try by the World Bank. See which coun­tries that are eli­gi­ble in this list.
• You must be an employ­ee of a media out­let in your coun­try (news­pa­per, mag­a­zine, radio, TV, rec­og­nized dig­i­tal pub­li­ca­tion) or be able to show proof of con­tin­u­ous free­lance jour­nal­ism activ­i­ties dur­ing the past three years.
• You must have a doc­u­ment­ed inter­est in water and water-relat­ed issues.
• Since the offi­cial lan­guage of World Water Week is Eng­lish, you need to be able to work in Eng­lish, even if you pub­lish sto­ries in anoth­er lan­guage.

Find sto­ries by pre­vi­ous years’ win­ners in the right hand-col­umn.

How to enter:

Send us your appli­ca­tion, by email only, to journalist-grant@siwi.org, no lat­er than Mon­day 30 April, 2018. The appli­ca­tion must be in Eng­lish and include the fol­low­ing:

• Attach­ments con­tain­ing scans of, or func­tion­ing links to three articles/pieces on water or water-relat­ed issues, pub­lished in the past three years (2015–2018).
• A brief CV
• A moti­va­tion let­ter (why you want to vis­it and cov­er World Water Week) of max­i­mum 400 words

We will noti­fy grant win­ners in ear­ly June, 2018.

For more infor­ma­tion about World Water Week, please vis­it www.worldwaterweek.org

About the Grant

The SIWI Jour­nal­ist Grant aims to build capac­i­ty in water and water-relat­ed issues among jour­nal­ists active in devel­op­ing coun­tries, there­by cre­at­ing poten­tial for raised aware­ness among large audi­ences of read­ers, lis­ten­ers and view­ers. In the long term, a raised lev­el of water knowl­edge in the jour­nal­ist corps will con­tribute to influ­enc­ing key deci­sion- and pol­i­cy mak­ers in water and devel­op­ment issues.

We hope that jour­nal­ists leave World Water Week with a renewed pas­sion for water issues, as well as the abil­i­ty to car­ry for­ward rel­e­vant ideas for their com­mu­ni­ties that raise aware­ness and gal­va­nize civic engage­ment.

Con­tact:
Ms Rowe­na Bar­ber, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Man­ag­er, Out­reach & Media Rela­tions rowena.barber@siwi.org +46 8 121 360 39