Mongabay Africa Scholarships for Environmental Journalism 2024

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must aspire to pursue a career as an environmental journalist
• Applicants must be able to work remotely with a good internet connection and webcam, and commit to a total of 10 hours of work per week. 
• For this first cohort, candidates must reside in one of the following countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger or Togo. 
• No level of education is required to apply. This scholarship program is not linked to any university. 
• All application documents must be submitted in the appropriate language (French for the French-speaking program).
• All documents must comply with the guidelines below or risk disqualification. 

Required Qualifications

• Understanding of the basics of reporting and interest in writing news articles 
• Interest in nature conservation issues
• Aspire to a career as an environmental journalist 
• Proven information and writing skills
• Ability to meet scholarship program planning requirements
• Any affinity towards multimedia content will be carefully considered

Offered Benefits

• The scholarship program runs twice a year: from April to June and from October to December, and targets six countries on the African continent, which differ depending on the cohorts. 
• Each scholar receives $500 USD per month during the 3 months of the program, for a total of $1,500 USD. He will work closely with the editor-in-chief of scholarship programs as well as other journalists in the editorial office to produce a total of three reports. 
• Each fellow thus undertakes to work 10 hours per week to produce an average of one report per month. His productions are intended to be published on the Mongabay site.  

Application Process

• Apply here for the French-speaking program .
• Apply here for the English program .
• Apply here for the Spanish speaking program.

Required Documents:

On the application form, you will be asked to fill in your contact details, answer a few questions about your interests and upload the following documents:

• A CV (1-2 pages maximum)
• A cover letter (1 page maximum) to introduce yourself and answer these questions: 
  • What are your career goals? How are they linked to environmental journalism?
  • Why should Mongabay select you for this program? 
• An example of a text (published or not) written in a journalistic style, linked to an environmental theme.