EAI BCC JOURNALIST FELLOWSHIP

EAI BCC JOURNALIST FELLOWSHIP

Scope of Fellowship: Equal Access International (EAI) a non-governmental organization (NGO) headquartered in Washington, D.C. partners with communities around the world to co-create sustainable solutions utilizing community engagement and participatory media and technology. With funding from bi-laterals, multi-laterals, foundations, and individual donors, EAI has over 20-years of successfully implementing social change projects and currently operates in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, and the Philippines.

Background: The Change Starts at Home (Change I) project was launched by Equal Access International (EAI) in 2015-2018 to evaluate the impact of IPV prevention intervention targeted at married couples in Nepal. The second phase (Change II) 2018-2019 included research to identify the existing pathways of gender norms diffusion from smaller groups to the community level. The third current phase (Change III) 2021-2023) is to test and generate novel insights into the diffusion of social norms and behavior change through individual and community network structures. Overall, the Change project addresses the existing negative social and gender norms, attitudes, and behaviors that perpetuate women's and girls' low status in the family/society and works specifically with married couples to address power imbalances in relationships.

Fellowship Overview: The Change III intervention site, two rural municipalities of Nawalpur district with collaboration community networks, influential leaders, and government representatives formed a "Violence Free Community (VFC)" campaign to implement violence prevention programming to declare violence-free homes, hamlets, networks, groups, and the community.  The 'Violence Free Campaign Committee' is the common platform for violence prevention work at the local level which is the community and the government resource mobilization platform that works as the government community partnership structure. EAI wants to share this initiative with a broader level audience, test the VFC concept in a different way of analyzing its sustainability, and diffuse the FVC campaign at the national and global levels. 

EAI is requesting applications from interested English medium journalists from national and international media platforms working in Nepal for the EAI BCC Journalist Fellowship. The selected journalist will be responsible for reporting with field evidence, publishing in the national/international media, and submitting the final story/product to EAI.

Key Understanding:

• Editorial freedom will exercise all parties on this EAI BCC Journalism fellowship.
• Editorial rights are reserved for the respective media editors before the publication/broadcast.
• Participate in 2 hours concept briefing session with the EAI team.
• Work with independently.
• Develop and submit field plan and story angle and treatment method.
• Prepare the independent story/media product in English language.
• Publish/broadcast the story/media product in the English medium national/international media.
• Provide final written and publish story to the EAI.

Eligibility:

• At least 5+ years of experience in English language national and global media in Nepali
• Experience reporting on sensitive subjects, including gender-based violence
• Fluent in Nepali and English (writing and speaking) Working globally will be prioritized but not compromised with provisions that must be Nepali citizens.

Fellowship Grant: EAI will provide 2 hours VFC concept briefing sessions to the selected journalists and offer agreed amount Nepalese Rupees 50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand) to each selected fellowship.

Period of Performance: The period of performance for this Scope of Work is from July 15, 2023, through August 15, 2023.

Application Instruction:

• Interested applicants are requested to submit their application to: eainepal@equalaccess.org along with their CV and cover letter with previous relevant experience no later than 5th July, 2023. Please mention "EAI BCC Journalist Fellowship” in the subject line of your email.
• Equal Access International reserves the right to change or cancel the requirement at any time during the solicitation process.