Gabo Foundation Scholarships for Journalistic Coverage of Colombian Amazon

The program is focused on Colombia, so it will award four journalistic production scholarships to journalistic projects that address leadership processes by women that promote care, protection and sustainability of the Colombian Amazon; as well as on violence and damage to the environment; mining and hydrocarbon exploitation, and disaster risk reduction in this region.

The selected projects must aim to investigate and make visible the situations and affectations in the Amazon, some strategies led by women for their defense and the guarantee of their economic, social, environmental, cultural and territorial rights.

Topics to apply

• Although journalistic investigation projects with open themes will be received, proposals that fall within the following lines will be positively valued:
  • The work of women in defense of the Amazon.
  • Violence and damage to the environment in the Amazon.
  • Mining and exploitation of hydrocarbons in the Amazon.
  • Disaster risk reduction in the Amazon.

Benefits

• If you are one of the people selected as a grantee from this fund, you will receive the following benefits:
  • Economic stimulus: resources of $8,000,000 (eight million Colombian pesos) for research and publication of your project.
  • Mentoring: access to journalistic mentoring during the two months that the project lasts. A mentor person will be assigned according to the thematic line or format of the project.
• Note: The resources cannot be used for the purchase of equipment.

Who can participate?

• Colombian journalists who work or collaborate with any media outlet in the country, in which they must publish the investigation carried out.
• Journalists with collaborative projects that imply the alliance or sum of efforts of various media, as long as they are based in Colombia.
• Work proposals will be accepted in written, sound, audiovisual or web formats.
• Those who participate may compete with an unpublished story, written in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
• Work carried out collectively or anonymously will not be accepted. Each contestant may present only one story.
• Papers will be received in word, pdf, jpg or png format.

For more information, visit Gabo Foundation.