*Applications Closed on 17 October, 2021

The 5th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) will be one of the biggest gatherings of world leaders in 2023. Note: the conference has been postponed from January 2022. It aims to set a new and ambitious development agenda for the world’s most vulnerable countries. It needs to deliver on that aim, given that decisions made here could transform the lives of a billion of the world’s most vulnerable people.

On the road to LDC5, the UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) and the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) are partnering to facilitate a bespoke journalism fellowship for journalists from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the autumn of 2021.

The programme will equip a cohort of selected journalists throughout the LDCs with better reporting skills, so that people living in these countries are aware of global decisions being made on their behalf, can connect multilateral processes to their own lives and can hold decision makers to account.
 

SELECTED FELLOWS WILL:

Take part in an online training programme by region

Be offered the opportunity to travel and participate in the LDC5 conference in Doha, Qatar

Take part in a 2-day in-person workshop with TRF trainers at LDC5

Receive guidance from TRF trainers for the duration of LDC5

One outstanding fellow will be selected for a fully-funded fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University

 

 

	WHO CAN APPLY?  The Fellowship is open to applications from journalists with a minimum of five years of experience who are reporting in any of the 46 Least Developed Countries.   Eligibility Criteria
HOW TO APPLY Applications are open from 29 September - 17 October 2021 23:59 EST. Late applications will not be considered. Applications Closed
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