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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Tanzania Media Fund

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The Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) offers four types of grants for individuals and two types of institutional grants, designed to support journalistic stories and media production in Tanzania. According to TMF, learning is an important aspect of all TMF grants. All individual grantees are assigned a personal mentor, and mentorship services are provided to institutional grantees according to need.

The six grant categories are:

  • Rapid Release Grant (Individual grant) - is a modest grant meant for covering urgent news within a short timeframe, producing a story that will have an impact on transparency and accountability in Tanzania.
  • Rural Dispatch Grant (Individual grant) - This category is open to any journalist with the demonstrated desire to publish or produce news that focuses on rural issues. Journalists must have a demonstrated desire to work on rural-based stories, and be willing to spend time in rural areas to pursue their stories.
  • The Fellowship Programme (Individual grant) - This six month fellowship gives experienced journalists the opportunity to do quality, in-depth reporting for six months on specialised subjects/issues of public interest and, where possible, investigative reports, that contribute to increased accountability in governance in Tanzania.
  • New Media Grant (Individual grant) - This is a new grant of TMF that seeks to give e-journalists, bloggers and mobile phone reporters the opportunity to develop and improve on their craft.
  • Institutional Transformation Grant (Institutional grant) - This is a collaborative partnership between TMF and a media organisations for a period of one or two years, with the aim of building a long-lasting legacy in the partner institution, or with the aim to contribute to structural changes in the media environment.
  • Content Grant (Institutional grant) - Under the content grant, media actors can apply for support on a particular, time-specific project that focuses on content development. This is open to media houses, media production companies, and officially registered media institutes in Tanzania.

Click here for more information about the grants and detailed application information.

Application Info

TMF invites young or mid-career print journalist with a passion for being an ace reporter, a desire to specialise in maternal health, business and economic reporting or extractive industry reporting to apply for the individual grants. The deadline for the Rural Dispatch Grant and Content Grant proposals is November 30 2012.

Applications for the Rapid Release Grant and the institutional Transformation Grant are open throughout the year. Proposals can be sent to TMF using the application forms and application procedures found on TMF’s website.

Click here to download each grant’s application form in English and KiSwahili.

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Tanzania Media Fund website on November 5 2012.