Oyinlola Awonuga
Grants to support investigative stories on corruption in Nigeria are available for qualified and passionate investigative print, electronic and online journalists.
The grants as part of the Upright4Nigeria campaign of the Strengthening Citizens’ Resistance Against Prevalence of Corruption (SCRAP-C) are from four sectors: Education, Health, Power, and Tax Administration in Akwa-Ibom, Borno, Enugu, Kaduna, Kano, and Lagos.
The requirements for entries for the grants are as stated below:
+ The stories must meet our strict standards of objectivity, clarity, provoke action from relevant authorities, good use of pictures, truthfulness and accuracy.
+ The stories must also meet the following standards: it will detail how one or more specific cases, corruption has negatively affected the lives of Nigerians and stalled development. The story must be accurate and backed by hard evidence. For broadcast journalists, a reasonable level of pictorial evidence must be provided.”
+ Other requirements are: Must detail real people’s lived reality with quotes and relevant images. A multimedia approach to the story for online and print media is paramount. The story must shun support for any political party, partisan political statements, religious orientation and any other tendentious orientation.
+ The story must void of libellous claims, character assassination and strictly conform with all the ethics of journalism and media practice. Your media organisation must be committed to publishing or airing the story. The investigation/production of the story must be concluded and published/aired not later than November 22th, 2019.
Submission of entries closes on 18th October 2019 and all pitches should be sent to scrapc@ccsimpact.org and copy sakioye@ccsimpact.org with the code in the mail subject SCRAP-C PS-2019. Also, all story ideas must be submitted with a detailed budget.
The aim of the publications is to influence social norms and attitudes that help corruption thrive in Nigeria with a view to effect social change.
“All stories after their publication in your different mediums may be published in other forms by ActionAid Nigeria and other consortium partners including Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and Centre for Communication and Social Impact (CCSI) strictly for illustration, with credit given to the Writer.”
About SCRAP-C
The Strengthening Citizens’ Resistance Against Prevalence of Corruption (SCRAP-C) through its Upright for Nigeria; Stand against corruption campaign aims to influence social norms and attitudes that help corruption thrive in Nigeria with a view to effecting a social change. The campaign is leveraging on social capital and social networks to promote a corruption averse mentality.
The campaign, driven by a group of Nigerian Civil Society Organizations, is designed to challenge the current beliefs that make corruption acceptable. It hopes to instil positive values such as integrity, honesty, transparency and hard work, to change the corruption narrative in Nigeria.
The SCRAP-C Project is funded with UK aid from the UK government and is designed to contribute to a reduction in corruption as a result of changing public attitudes that increasingly disapprove of corrupt practices.
Through its Upright4Nigeria campaign, the project seeks to build public demand and attitudes for anti-corruption through strengthened and organized collective and individual actions and voices.
Through its strategy, the campaign will have a national and state-specific engagement in Kaduna, Kano (extending activities to Jigawa), Lagos, Enugu, Borno and Akwa Ibom.
The Upright for Nigeria campaign, will amongst other creative and inclusive strategies, embark on a robust behaviour change campaign including the engagement of civil society organizations and informal sector associations.
#Upright4Nigeria campaign was birthed by the SCRAP-C consortium in April 2018.
