U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa PAS Notice of Funding Opportunity

The summary for the U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa PAS Notice of Funding Opportunity grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the US Mission to Ethiopia, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa PAS Notice of Funding Opportunity: The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa announces an open competition for non-governmental and non-profit organizations to submit applications for a project that seeks to support both state- and private media in Ethiopia entitled Roles and Responsibilities of Media in a Democracy. The selected partner is required to design a series of comprehensive weeklong media trainings for journalists from both state and private media throughout the country, up to 20 trainings in total. There should be at least 15-20 participants at each training with at least 25% female media practitioners in attendance. Based on feedback from and in close collaboration with the U.S. Embassy, the partner will implement these trainings nation-wide for hundreds of public and private media actors. The content of media trainings will address the media's roles and responsibilities in a democracy.The goal of this project is to enhance the professional capacity of both state and private media through needs-based and focused trainings. Applicants are encouraged to explore interactive, creative approaches to ensure media participants get hands-on practice in writing and producing non-biased content across media platforms.