MDG Advocacy for Media Networks

The Asia-Pacific MDG Media Awards honour distinguished reporting on the MDGSsby producers and journalists in print, radio and television covering the Asia-Pacific region.

The competiton attracts a US$7,000 winning prize ($2,000 for runners up) for each media category and aims to generate better awareness and understanding of the MDGs in Asia-Pacific. Entires are open until 25 March 2007 - so get your entries in soon!

The competition is open to all radio and TV producers/journalists from public service broadcasting organizations, private networks and free-lance producers covering the Asia and the Pacific.

UNDP Human Development Media Fellowship for Asia-Pacific 2007

The Asia-Pacific Human Development Media Fellowship is initiated by the Human Development Unit at the UNDP Regional Centre in Colombo. It is offered once a year.

The objective of the Fellowship is to support policy advocacy and dissemination of research in order to bring people to the centre of the development debate. The Fellowship encourages media professionals from the Asia-Pacific developing countries to undertake media advocacy on issues of concern in the region from a human development perspective.