Cultural Survival has launched the 2023 Call for Proposals for the Indigenous Community Media Fund. The fund aims to strengthen the broadcast infrastructure and systems of radio stations and media outlets from indigenous communities while providing training opportunities to their community journalists through a participatory and dynamic grants program.
The Indigenous Community Media Fund at Cultural Survival seeks opportunities for Indigenous community radio stations and media outlets to strengthen their broadcast infrastructure and systems. The initiative will offer training opportunities to their community journalists through a participatory and dynamic grants program to enhance community efforts to establish and ensure the sustainability of Indigenous community-controlled media.
Past funded projects included improvements to internal organization infrastructure, capacity building, systematization of radio and other community media management experiences, advocacy in national legislation and policies to advocate for access to Indigenous community media, and other innovative strategies that increase political and community impact. Participation and inclusion of women, other genders, and youth as funding priorities for the projects are highly valued.
Cultural Survival advocates for Indigenous Peoples’ rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures, and political resilience, since 1972.
Cultural Survival envisions a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples’ inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.
Cultural Survival empowers and supports Indigenous Peoples to advocate for their rights — human rights, the right to participate and have a voice, the right to practice their cultures and speak their languages, the right to access the same opportunities as others, and the right to control and sustainably manage their assets and resources — so that they may determine for themselves the future they will lead.
All countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa; Canada and the United States; India, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Malaysia are eligible to apply.
Benefits
- Grant of up to $6,000(Indigenous community radio stations and other community media outlets and groups)
- Grant of up to $12,000(Radio network proposals presented by three or more Indigenous radio stations)
Eligibilities
- Indigenous community radio stations
- Indigenous community radio networks
- Networks or groups of Indigenous communicators
- Networks or groups of Indigenous women communicators
- Groups of Indigenous muralists and photographers’
- Other media outlets managed by Indigenous Peoples, including newspapers,
- community television, audiovisual and multimedia production, intranet, and community internet
Eligible Regions: All countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa; Canada and the United States; India, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Malaysia
Application Process
Applicant groups or media outlets should send their narrative proposal and budget (in English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese) in the formats provided by Cultural Survival to [email protected]. Additionally, you can send or attach your radio productions of 5 minutes maximum or a portfolio of your artistic work relevant to the project submitted. For the 2023 call, we are prioritizing Indigenous communication projects that include the following strategies and activities:
- Legal processes to access radio frequencies for Indigenous community stations.
- Institutional development for media outlets, including strategic planning in financial, organizational, legal, and content areas; development of a board of directors; development of environmental and gender policies; design and implementation of security protocols for personnel; and evaluation and monitoring systems.
- Capacity building in audiovisual, writing, and radio skills for Indigenous women, other genders, and youth, recording, editing, production, community investigative journalism, coverage in emergency situations, maintenance, repair, and assembly of radio equipment.
- Capacity building in new communication technologies (streaming, servers, web pages, online radio, digital press, community TV, mobile applications, and software programs).
- Development of audiovisual, written, and radio content on topics related to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other international conventions on Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change; decolonized histories of Indigenous Peoples; strengthening of Indigenous identities; protection of lands, territories, and natural resources; news development; rights of Indigenous women and issues on gender, cultural, and ancestral heritage; national legislation impacting the rights of Indigenous Peoples; public debates; literacy in native languages, and Free, Prior and Informed Consent.
- Strengthening of Indigenous community organizations with an inclusive approach (i.e., women, youth, and other genders) to demand the right to Indigenous community communication.
- Intranet network infrastructures or broadband Internet installation in the stations.
- Community murals or audiovisual and photography projects focused on Indigenous Peoples’ rights, women’s and youth rights, climate change, culture, and Indigenous languages.
Application Deadline: February 15, 2023
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