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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENT SCIENCE JOURNALISM TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS
October 18, 2018 • 0 Comment

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENT SCIENCE JOURNALISM TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS

The Highway Africa Centre, a programme of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa), hereby calls for applications from practising journalists for fellowships to attend a 3-day course on Solutions Journalism with a special focus on Health, Development and Development Science. The course will run from 26-28 November 2018 and includes attendance to the Highway Africa conference (29-30 November).

ABOUT THE COURSE

The course seeks to build the capacity of journalists to use solutions journalism lens in their coverage of Health, Development and Development Science issues using a solutions journalism framework. The Science Solutions course will have three main focus areas. They will lean heavily toward health issues but will not limit a committed science journalist to one particular area of expertise.

  1. The first area will examine the persistent scourge of tuberculosis (TB) and how it affects African populations. It will use cases studies in the Makana area to investigate how medical science battles this contagious infection. Participants will discuss and write articles on:
  2. Drug-resistant tuberculosis – will it lead to incurable strains?
  3. New tests for diagnosing TB in Children
  4. How to manage the side effects of TB medication
  5. Can you get TB from animals or food?

 

  1. The second area will look at water and ways of ensuring that clean water reaches the population. Once again, test cases will be used in the Makana area but these cases will be applicable to other African towns of a similar size.
  2. We will examine ways of storing/transporting water without it getting polluted
  3. Ways of testing water to ensure its safety
  4. Methods of cleaning water on an economically viable scale
  5. Methods of reducing waste

 

  1. The third area will share information on how to cover science stories. As health is of prime concern to most of the population, a large proportion of science journalists become good at various aspects of health journalism. This does not help them however if they have been assigned to cover a science story in an unfamiliar field. The third area will teach participants how to navigate terrain that they have never encountered before. We will apply certain methods and learn how to confront these situations with greater confidence.

 

WHAT IS COVERED

The course will cover;

  1. Air tickets
  2. Airport transfers within SA
  • Accommodation
  1. Group meals

CRITERIA

Journalists who meet the following criteria are encouraged to apply:

  1. Working for a news organisation in a full-time capacity and have a minimum of 5 years’ experience as a journalist;
  2. Has a portfolio of science, health or development-related stories (minimum 5)

HOW TO APPLY

Interested journalists should submit;

  1. An application letter
  2. Curriculum vitae
  • A support letter from their editor/publisher
  1. A 200-word motivation what benefit this training would be to them.

Send documents to:

Tatenda Chatikobo (Mr), Conference Coordinator, Highway Africa Centre, T.Chatikobo@ru.ac.za. Please use email communication only.

DEADLINE

The closing date is  29 October 2018 23:59 (GMT +2).

No late and incomplete entries will be considered.

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2018 Southern Africa Media Award in Social Accountability Reporting
October 4, 2018 • 0 Comment

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2018 SOUTHERN AFRICA MEDIA AWARD IN SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING

Highway Africa, together with the Partnership for Social Accountability (PSA) Alliance, invites journalists in Southern Africa to apply for the 2nd Southern Africa Media Award in Social Accountability Reporting 2018 as part of the 22nd annual Highway Africa Conference to be held on 29-30 November 2018 in Grahamstown, South Africa.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE AWARDS

The award aims to encourage high-quality investigative reporting on issues of social accountability, specifically on HIV / SRHR and food security in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia.

2018 SOUTHERN AFRICA MEDIA AWARD IN SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING

The award recognises three journalists from the PSA Alliance’s project countries – Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia for their outstanding investigative reporting on issues of social accountability related to one of the following categories;
1. HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
2. Food Security.
Applications will be examined by a panel of media experts in the region, and all three winners will be invited to attend the Highway Africa Conference to be held on 29-30 November 2018 to receive the awards in person.

AWARD PRIZES

Three awards will be offered as 1st prize, 2nd prize and 3rd prize.
• USD 450 for 1st prize
• USD 200 for 2nd prize
• USD 100 for 3rd prize
• All travel expenses paid to attend the 2018 Highway Africa Conference for all three winners

CRITERIA

• Eligible entries should consist of investigative reporting on issues of social accountability related to HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Food Security
• Applicants must be based in Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique or Zambia.
• Work must be published between August 2017 and October 2018
• Entries can be in any language spoken in the four countries
• Entries can be in Print, Radio, TV, Multimedia and Photo Journalism
• If submitting multiple entries either in the same category or across multiple categories, complete entry for each story to a total maximum of two entries.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION

26 October 2018 (23:59 GMT +2)

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants are strongly encouraged to read through the following documents to fully understand the requirements for the call before applying. Late and incomplete applications will not be accepted.
1. 2017 winning entry
2. 2017 Press release
3. Social Accountability Reporting Explained
4. Adjudication Criteria
Applicants should fill in the application form HERE >>

BACKGROUND OF THE PSA ALLIANCE

The Partnership for Social Accountability (PSA) Alliance, through the project ‘Strengthening Social
Accountability and Oversight in Health and Agriculture in Southern Africa,’ seeks to improve public
service delivery in agriculture (food security), and health (HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health
and rights). This is done through strengthening the oversight and social accountability roles of five
target groups in the SADC region, specifically: selected parliamentary committees, relevant
government departments, issue-based civil society organisations (CSOs), smallholder farmer
organisations, and the media.
With support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the first three-year
phase (2016-2019) of the project focuses on Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. The PSA
Alliance is a consortium of organisations led by ActionAid International (AAI) and including the Public
Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) of Rhodes University, Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale
Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF) and SAfAIDS.

Social accountability is the broad range of actions and mechanisms beyond voting that citizens can use to hold the state to account. It is accountability that relies on civic engagement, namely a situation whereby ordinary citizens and/or civil society organizations participate directly or indirectly in exacting accountability. It is the right of citizens to demand explanations & justifications for the way public resources are spent, and demand corrective action where necessary.

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