The Internews Earth Journalism Network (EJN) Asia-Pacific project announced two competitive grant opportunities in the beginning of the year. The Media Grants are available to media and other environmental information generating organizations to support their creation, growth, and capacity building. These grants aim to improve the overall quantity and quality of news coverage of climate change, natural resources and the environment. The Story Grants are targeted at individual journalists to support the production of in-depth stories that can empower communities at risk from the impacts of environmental and climate change.

We received a total of 77 applications for media grants and 79 for story grants with good representation across the region. Two judging panels consisting of Internews EJN staff reviewed the proposals, deliberated and shortlisted applications for interviews. After all the interviews were completed, the panel convened again to select the final grantees based on three primary considerations:

• The quality of ideas;
• The fit with the grant objectives;
• Financial feasibility of the project, based on the budget.

The judging panel selected 12 organizations for the media grants and 28 journalists for the Story Grants.

Recipients of EJN Asia-Pacific Media Grants

Name of Organization	Location of work
Climate Tracker	Indonesia
Fundasaun Media Development Centre (FMDC)	Timor-Leste
The Isaan Record	Thailand
Tribal News Network	Pakistan
Pacific Environment Journalists Networks	Tonga
Indigenous Media Foundation	Nepal
Academy of Journalism and Communication – Faculty of Broadcasting	Vietnam
China Dialogue Trust	South Asia
Centre for Hands-on Actions and Networking for Growth and Environment (CHANGE)	Vietnam
Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists	Indonesia
Verafiles Incorporated	Philippines
Cambodia Institute for Media Studies	Cambodia

 

Recipients of EJN Asia-Pacific Story Grants

Name of Journalist	Location of Work
Sonali Prasad	India
Purple Chrystyl S. Romero	Philippines
Tessa Toumbourou	India
Luke Duggleby	Thailand
Mary-Rose Abraham	India
Peter Schwartzstein	Bangladesh
Amrita Gupta	India
Arshed (Muhammad) Rafiq	Pakistan
Wang Yan	China
Moushumi Basu	India
Tran Thi Thuy Binh	Vietnam
Soumya Sarkar	India
Abhaya Raj Joshi	Nepal
Hartatik	Indonesia
Golam Mourtoza	Bangladesh
Mahima Ashok kumar Jain	India
Aude-Emilie DORION / Sophie PECQUET	New Caledonia
Scott Waide	Papua New Guinea
Ronald Flier TOITO’ONA	Solomon Islands
Matt Blomberg	Cambodia
Md Abu Bakar Siddique	Bangladesh
Athar Parvaiz	India
Ma. Victoria (Mavic) Conde	Philippines
Jency Samuel	India
Nithin Coca	Indonesia
Nicolas Landa Tami	Indonesia
Yombi Kep	Papua New Guinea
Anna Valermo	Philippines