Global Health Journalism Grant Programme for France

We award stipends for in-depth journalistic research on global health, health policy and development related issues to be published in French media

Open to French freelancers and journalists on staff

€ 15,000 /Avg

Deadline Aug 08, 2019
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European Publisher Longterm Reporting Grant

We award grants for long-term innovative reporting of selected United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs).

Open to media organisations in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom

€ 130,000 /Avg

Applications are now closed
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Innovation in Development Reporting Grant

We award reporting grants for production of out-of-the-box stories on international development topics.

Open to journalists and media organisations

€ 20,000 /Avg

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Andrea Jeska

Germany

Biography

Working freelance for major German and Swiss newspapers and magazins like GEO, Chrismon, Die Zeit, NZZ, Tagesanzeiger. Specialized on Sub-Saharan-countries, writing mainly reportage. Various journalistic awards, published books on terror in the North Caucasus, war in Chechnya, women in the Bundeswehr, political situation in Zimbabwe and others. Love to write poetry in my freetime.

Funded project

Fistula, A Life In Shame

​Millions of women in Africa are suffering from vesicovaginal or rectovaginal fistula mostly because they have no access to appropriate health care or are victims of rape as a weapon of war. Fistula is a disease that confines women to