Enhancing Climate Justice and Resilience Narratives

In September 2017, CJRF provided a $1 million grant to Internews’ Earth Journalism Network for its project on “Enhancing Climate Justice and Resilience Narratives Around the Bay of Bengal.” Using CJRF funds, EJN and its partner Third Pole aim to build local journalists’ capacity for coverage of climate justice and resilience issues in the Bay of Bengal. Project goals include: to increase access to socio-environmental information; increase inclusion of women and marginalized groups in environmental media coverage; and build peer-to-peer knowledge sharing in the sector. These goals will be achieved through: research on how information flows in the region; workshops, mentoring, fellowships, and story grants for individual journalists; innovation grants for news organizations, NGOs, universities, and other media institutions; partnerships with university communications and journalism departments; and strengthening the online networks of EJN and Third Pole. CJRF funds will directly increase access to information and local storytelling around climate adaptation solutions and issues in the Bay of Bengal.