Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Journalism Fellowship 2024 (Fully-funded) Deadline: 10 April, 2024

Applications are open for the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Journalism Fellowship 2024. Are you a journalist from the world’s 39 Small Island Developing States (SIDS)? Apply for this fully funded opportunity for you to cover the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) in Antigua & Barbuda from 27-30 May.

SIDS4 will bring together the international community to review SIDS’ sustainable development progress and propose a new decade of partnerships and solutions to supercharge their path to resilient prosperity. This is a United Nations initiative designed to promote SIDS based reporting, and to attract both developing and accomplished journalists from SIDS member countries to cover the pivotal Fourth International Conference on SIDS (SIDS4).

This initiative recognizes the critical role journalism plays in shaping the sustainable development narrative, including shining a spotlight on the unique challenges and opportunities faced by SIDS, by emphasizing issues such as climate change, disaster risk reduction, access to finance, sustainable tourism, economic transformation etc. The initiative is spearheaded by the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).

Benefits

• The selected journalists will receive full funding to report on the conference from Antigua and Barbuda from May 27 to 30 2024.
• Stand a chance to participate, connect with fellow journalists, policymakers, and experts at the intersection of SIDS issues at SIDS4.
• Gain insights into priority and emerging sustainable development for SIDS, and the new SIDS agenda.
• Your reporting can drive positive change for SIDS.

Eligibility

• Open to journalists from the 37 SIDS member countries.
• Participants must be at least 18 years old.
• Applicants must have at least three years of journalistic experience.
• Participants must be currently employed or freelancing as a journalist working for a recognized media outlet or freelancing, whose work has been regularly published by a recognized media outlet.

Application

Submission dicuments include:

• A short biography (500 words max.) detailing journalistic experience, languages spoken, and areas of expertise.
• Work samples:
  • Two published works of journalism covering environmental issues, sustainable
    development, or SIDS-specific issues.
  • Submissions should demonstrate storytelling ability and the impact of the journalist’s work.
• Reporting Proposal (500 words max.):
  • Outline the unique perspective and story angles you intend to explore during the SIDS Conference.
  • Describe how your coverage will contribute to the understanding of the sustainable development challenges facing SIDS.

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For more information, visit SIDS Journalism Fellowship.