Deadline: 31 January 2023
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Media Awards-2023 Call for Entries
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) announces the call for entries for the 2022 COMESA Media Awards. The Award scheme is conducted every year to recognize and reward journalists who have contributed to regional integration by publishing and producing broadcast stories on the subject.
Objective of the Awards
The objective of the Awards is to promote reporting of COMESA regional integration projects hence raising public awareness, understanding and participation and ownership.
The parameters for eligible entries include the following:
1. Relevance: The entry should address economic developmental issues relevant to regional integration such as trade, transport, aviation, energy, transport, ICT, investments, gender, agriculture among etc
2. Regional dimension: The entry should have a regional dimension i.e. applying to or applicable to more than one regional State
3. Knowing COMESA: The entry should demonstrate awareness about COMESA regional integration programmes
Eligibility
- The awards are open for published and broadcasted works in the fields of print, radio, television, and online media.
- Only journalists who are COMESA nationals are eligible for the competition.
- The competition is open to individual journalists and not media institutions or organisations
Languages
All works entered for the competition shall be in one of the COMESA official languages, namely English, French and Arabic.
Categories
Entries shall consist of the following:
Print Journalism
Features/articles should consist of a minimum 700 words and maximum 1,500 words published in mainstream newspapers, magazines/ journals and newsletters.
Radio Journalism
Documentary or discussion programmes of minimum 5 (five) minutes and maximum 10 (ten) minutes duration and not exceeding 15MB;
Television Journalism
Documentary or discussion programme of minimum 5 (five) minutes and maximum 10 (ten) minutes duration and not exceeding 15MB.
Online/New Media
Features/articles of a minimum 700 (seven hundred words) and maximum 1,500 (One thousand five hundred) words published in mainstream newspapers (including online editions), magazines and reputable journals.
Submission of entries
The entries shall be works published/broadcast by a recognised media institution between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022 in any of the 21 COMESA Member States.
