The YouthHubAfrica’s Child Rights Bill Advocacy Program Media Fellowship is a one-year fellowship designed to equip journalists with the skills and knowledge needed to understand the Child Rights Act advocacy so as to provide for ambitious coverage of critical issues related to the Child Right Act (CRA) to ensure its adoption in Sokoto State.
The aim of this Media Fellowship is to support ambitious coverage of critical issues related to ensuring the passage of the Child Rights Bill, especially as it concerns education and rights of children in Sokoto State and also pitch the Nigerian child as a major stakeholder in the country. The fellowship will avail journalists an opportunity to produce investigative stories on the situation of children in the state. The fellowship also serves as an opportunity designed to advance journalists’ knowledge on the Child Right Law in Sokoto State and develop stories that trigger national engagement on access to 12 years of quality education for the girl child.
The Child Rights Act adopted in 2003 still represents one of the very few legal frameworks from which all the over 10 million out-of-school children in Nigeria can get access to quality universal basic education.
Components of the Fellowship
- Fellows and their institutions retain copyright as well as editorial independence on stories developed
- In addition to this, the fellows will be supported with $1,000 for their out-of-pocket expenses to produce stories that will deepen thoughts, cause conversations and insightful commentaries on the state of the Nigerian child.
- Fellows will be able to participate in capacity-building training on the CRA Act where they will be equipped with skills and statistics to understand issues around girls’ education in Nigeria with a special focus on Sokoto State.
ELIGIBILITY
- The media fellowship is expected to run for a period of one year.
- Our ideal applicants are those with passion and experience for reporting. (priority will be given to applicants from Sokoto state)
- 5 Fellows will be selected – 3 from Sokoto state and 2 from across Nigeria.
- Fellowship is open to passionate and committed journalists with the capacity to develop at least 4 stories.
- Journalists with at least two years’ experience in public or private media houses are encouraged to apply.
- Applications from freelance journalists are also welcomed.
- Applications from media practitioners in print, electronic and online media in Sokoto State are welcomed.
- Applicants from online media must have a considerable level of experience in mainstream media outfits.
- Fellows must be passionate and committed to reporting child rights stories in Nigeria with attention to education.
- Interested journalists must have a strong passion for girl child education and development.
- Applicants must be between ages 18 and 40 at the time of application.
DEADLINE: January 28, 2021
To apply and for more information visit here
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