Deadline: 15 April 2024
Are you an independent media organization in Southeast Asia or Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan or Sri Lanka? Here’s an opportunity for you to grow your business and improve your financial sustainability. MDIF’s unique media coaching program Amplify Asia is accepting applications.
Amplify Asia is an innovative coaching program for independent media working to build their business capacity and financial sustainability. It provides support to independent media based in or serving selected countries in Southeast and South Asia.
Key Features and Benefits
- Careful matching with personal coach from the region to advise on company strategy
- Capacity building plans tailored to the media’s individual needs
- Access to regional specialists
- Technical assistance in areas such as website redesign, SEO services, sales and marketing training
- Possibility of small grants and seed equity facility
Criteria for joining the program
- Media from the following Southeast Asian countries are eligible: Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
- Media from the following South Asian countries are eligible: Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
- Amplify Asia supports the business development of selected media from several countries in South-East and South Asia. There are strict eligibility conditions for participation. Applicants must be:
- Media companies (for-profit) or not-for-profit organizations committed to providing credible, independent news, information or public interest debate for audiences based primarily in South and Southeast Asia. Media from Southeast Asia as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are eligible to apply.
- Independent from the government or any other political or economic interest group.
- Supportive of democratic practices and institutions, political pluralism, transparency, human rights, dignity and equal rights for all, regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion and other subjects of discrimination.
- Operating in countries where access to reliable information is limited.
- Legally registered, except in extraordinary circumstances.
- Committed to developing a path to financial sustainability.
- Having sufficient capacity to produce regular financial reports.
- Willing to commit sufficient time to work with coaches/mentors and carry out assigned tasks.
For more information, visit MDIF.
