Media Fellowships
MAMTA Health Institute for Mother and Child
Location: Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Last Date: April 25, 2010
Email: fello...@mamtahimc.org (Reference: DevNetJobsIndia.org)
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MEDIA FELLOWSHIP (2010)
MAMTA Health Institute for Mother and Child
Location: Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Email: fello...@mamtahimc.org
Last Date: April 25, 2010
MAMTA – Health Institute for Mother and Child, New Delhi, invites proposals from Journalists from English and Hindi print media for “A Fellowship Program for States of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India under the European Commission Supported Project “Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) of Young People by Influencing Age at Marriage in India, Nepal and Bangladesh”.
BACKGROUND:
The fellowship programme aims to promote public education on Impact of Early Marriage and Early Pregnancy on young people’s sexual and reproductive health. Effective communication is essential to influence knowledge, practices and behavior within a
family and simultaneously build consensus on Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) issues. This will serve as one of the tools in the multi pronged approach towards creating an enabling environment for young people so that they practice safe behaviors and live healthy disease free live.
The proposed fellowship shall translate itself into issue based write ups / op-eds fostering support and building public opinion.
The fellowship provides a unique opportunity to investigate and analyze deep-rooted practice of Early Marriage and associated SRH concerns at the programme intervention sites of MAMTA in two states namely Ganoda, Hardoi, CVhitrakoot and Siddhartha Nagar districts in Uttar Pradesh and Nawada, Nalanda, Vaishali and West Champaran districts in Bihar.
It would help in building perspectives on identified SRH concerns of young boys and girls in a broad age group of 10-24 years. These concerns of young people are often
underestimated and hence denied in almost all cultures across the nation. Of all, young people who are unmarried are the worse affected who often are forced into marital obligations unprepared and left to learn about health, social and economic complexities only through self-experiences and sufferings.
The longstanding casual approach to young people’s health concerns reflects a poor state of affairs vis-à-vis six cross cutting issues in our country.
Modality of Fellowship
The organization shall provide two – three fellowship(s), in 2010. The fellowship would be for a period of 3-6 months depending on the nature of proposals selected. The fellowship will be granted to the most suitable candidate selected by a panel of experts comprised of eminent journalists, academician and development professional.
Key Issues (Following are mere suggestions, the innovativeness in dealing with the issue of child marriage is
encouraged)
With the central theme remaining consequences of Early Marriage and Early Pregnancy; the associated issues of
1. Young couples and education on contraception to delay first pregnancy
2. Health care services for young people irrespective of marital status
3. Education Retention (Preventing school drop out rate) and vocational opportunities
4. Implementation of Prohibition of Child Marriage Act- 2006 by State and district authorities and community efforts to prevent child marriages
5. Need of Life Skills and Sexuality Education.
6. Young People & HIV-AIDS
Eligibility
1. A Post Graduate degree/ diploma in Journalism/Mass Communication/Media studies (desired)
2. Journalists who are citizens of India and have been residing in India for the past two Years. Journalists in the states of U.P. and Bihar are encouraged.
3. Association with English or Hindi or both accredited/registered Newspaper or
Magazine or News Agency, print or electronic.
4. A minimum of 3-5 years of experience with focus on Health & Development issues in association with accredited/registered Newspaper or Magazine.
5. The following segment can gain from the fellowship programme- Journalist, who have been writing over such issues
EXPECTED OUTPUT
Enhanced understanding of the media fellow on development issues of respective State vis-à-vis Early marriage and early pregnancies
Publication of well-researched articles in Newspaper, Magazine through print, electronic (telecast / broadcast) or on new media like internet/ website/ blogs.
Minimum 3 big (half Page atleast) and 5 small articles/ real life story/opinion pieces or editorials (including Quarter page/ 2 columns) in main newspaper.
Visibility to young people’s issues in mainstream media and bring them center-stage helping to shape public debate on policies, programmes and community
initiatives concerning Young People's Health Issues and Rights.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidate can apply at fello...@mamtahimc.org by submitting an application form (Download at http://www.mamta-himc.org/MAMTA-Media_Fellowship_application_form_2010.doc ). The last date of receiving the application is 25th April 2010.
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