African Women in Media (AWiM), in partnership with the African Union (AU), International Labour Migration (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has launched the Labour Migration Reporting Programme.

Application deadline: 20th November 2020

About the Award: The programme features the Labour Migration Media AWards, the Labour Migration Reporting Training Programme and research into the lived experiences of labour migration journalists in Africa. As part of our Visibility Project, AWiM is also working with Wikimedia communities in Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon and Algeria, to train women journalists on how to write on Wikipedia, and create more profiles and articles on labour migration in Africa.

With labour migration becoming an increasingly important political issue, the Labour Migration Media Awards aims to celebrate and honour African journalists who are committed to labour migration issues in their reporting. It is envisaged that the project will culminate in the establishment of a community of journalists reporting on labour migration in Africa.

Eligible Fields: The awards are open to all African journalists, and entries must be published or broadcast with a media organisation based in Africa. As such, in recognition of the important contributions of journalists to Labour Migration Reporting, we are pleased to announce the following award categories:

1. Migrants' rights,
2. Remittance and Diaspora: Contributions to Development,
3. Governance of Labour Migration,
4. Gender-based migration,
5. Economic Impact of Migration,
6. Migration and Health,
7. Intra-African migration,
8. Fair recruitment, forced labour and human trafficking of migrant workers
9. Labour Migration News Team of the Year

Type: Training, Awards

Eligibility:

1. Professional journalists are invited to submit work published/broadcast between 01 January 2019 - 20 November 2020
2. Participants must have the nationality of an African Union member state and be at least eighteen years old. They can live anywhere in the world
3. Only works published/broadcast with a media organisation in an African Union member state are allowed.
4. Candidates can submit up to two entries in all categories
5. Joint submissions are allowed as long as the submissions are authored by the participants
6. Participants must be the authors of the work submitted in their name, and own copyright or have been authorised by the copyright holders to submit the entry(s)
7. Submissions can be in any journalistic format (text, photojournalism, audio, audiovisual, data, etc.).
8. Photo entries must be free of any name or text on the image itself, instead a clear caption, in English, must be provided in the submission
9. No registration fee is payable.
10. Only applications submitted between 19 October 2020 and 20 November 2020 will be considered
11. All entries must be submitted using the official competition form and must comply with the established rules and eligibility criteria. Entries submitted in other ways and/or that do not comply with the rules and eligibility criteria will not be accepted.
12. Any entries that are late, illegible, fraudulent or bring/would bring/would bring/would bring the reputation of African women in the media, the African Union, the International Labour Organisation and/or the International Organisation for Migration into disrepute will be ineligible to participate in the Awards and will be disqualified.
13. You will grant to African Women in Media, African Union, International Labour Organisation and/or International Organization for Migration unrestricted, irrevocable non-exclusive rights in all works submitted for entry into the Awards (or where such rights are owned by third parties, you must procure that such third parties grant such rights) for African Women in Media, African Union, International Labour Organisation and/or International Organization for Migration to use such works in any manner it determines in connection with the Awards.
14. The panel of judges will be determined by African Women in Media, the African Union, the International Labour Organisation and/or the International Organisation for Migration at their sole discretion and will meet in November 2020.
15. The judges reserve the right not to select entries that do not meet the required standards.
16. The judges reserve the right to transfer entries for consideration in other categories at their discretion.
17. The judges uphold the integrity and reputation of the Labour Migration Media Awards and, as such, reserve the right to disqualify any piece of work and/or finalist if, in the judges' opinion, there are reasonable doubts about the authenticity and/or ownership of the submitted entry and/or the integrity of the finalists.
18. The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
19. Prize categories and sponsors may be subject to change.
20. Finalists will be required to sign declarations of eligibility, confirming among other things copyright ownership and/or release of all submitted works, and containing releases granting African women in the media, the African Union, the International Labour Organisation and/or the International Organisation for Migration and all Awards sponsors, the right to use their names, voices, photos and submitted works, without compensation, in any media for publicity/public relations purposes, training, exhibition and promotion of all Awards-related matters
21. You agree that African Women in Media, the African Union, the International Labour Organisation and/or the International Organisation for Migration may share the information you provide with the Awards' partners and judges.
22. Three finalists will be announced per category and one winner will be selected per category
23. African Women in Media, the African Union, the International Labour Organisation and/or the International Organisation for Migration and all sponsors of the Awards disclaim any liability for loss to any person or property in connection with the award and/or subsequent use of or participation in any of the prizes awarded. Winners agree to comply with all terms and conditions of the prize suppliers. The promoter is AWiM.
24. The Competition will be covered and interpreted under international law.
25. You acknowledge that this is a competition only and the awarding of any prize does not give rise to an employment relationship, agency or joint venture or agreement between you and African Women in Media, the African Union, the International Labour Organisation and/or the International Organisation for Migration.

Click here to find out more about the award rules and eligibility

Eligible countries: African countries

Number of awards: 200

Premium amount: The winners will be announced on 7 December 2020, and will receive a cash prize of US$ 500 each, and access to the five courses under the Labour Migration Reporting Training Programme on AWiMLearning.

How to apply: Click here to submit your entry

• It is important to go through all the entry requirements on the Award Page (see Link below) before applying.