Small Grants for Child Reporting for #SaveKidsLives

#SaveKidsLives is the worldwide campaign for the Third United Nations Global Road Safety Week in May 2015. The campaign calls for action to save children’s lives on the roads around the world.

The Alliance has a few grants available for Alliance members to collaborate with media to highlight stories or programmes produced by children on road safety.

The main objective is to draw attention to road safety by having children serve as reporters documenting the dangerous situations they are exposed to on a daily basis and featuring their reports in prominent media.
The activity aims at producing one story or a series of stories on road safety and children; authored by single children or a group of children; to be run ideally on  television, but also on radio, print media or social media; before, during or after the week of 4-10 May 2015.

Please see guidance in the step-by-step guide HERE

We are looking for 5-10 NGOs from different countries and different regions to collaborate with media to highlight stories or programmes produced by children on road safety.  One grant will not exceed $1000 USD.

Each selected NGO will deliver to the Alliance’s secretariat at least one or more of the following products (or links to these on the media’s web site) developed according to the Step-by-Step guide. All products produced by grantees will be used for media outreach by World Health Organisation and the Alliance to contribute towards drawing attention to the urgent need to better protect children on the roads and generate action on the measures needed to do so.

Deliverables:

• Short edited video (about 60-90 seconds) or b-rolls (1-3 minutes) to be broadcasted as TV news segment featuring a child talking from the road explaining to the camera what are the daily threats he/she faces on the road ( by foot, by bike, by car, by public transportation,  going to school, being taken to school, playing alongside the road, just to mention a few).
• Short edited piece for radio ( 45-180 seconds) to be aired as radio news segment featuring a child.
• A written story or a photo essay run on a newspaper or magazine. The story will have to be authored by a child and feature the views of the child.

In addition:

• Messages: The stories produced by the children will have to refer to at least one or more of the key messages held in the child declaration.
• Language: Stories in local languages are welcome as long as English translation is provided (subtitles or a summary of the piece) to facilitate its distribution to international media.
• Timing: Stories run by media in the course of the week are welcome as well as stories disseminated shortly before and after the week, but in any case  before the end of May 2015. In particular for the 5 b-rolls specified above ( raw material). The Alliance would prefer having those the week before May 4 in order to be able to send them to international media ahead of time.

Timeframe

• Application deadline: 1 April 2015 8am (GMT)
• Successful applicants will be informed by 6 April 2015
• Implementation
  time: 6 April- 10 May 2015
• Submission of deliverable: links should be provided to the Alliance secretariat as soon as possible after going live, and no later than end of May 2015.  In particular for the 5 b-rolls specified above (raw material), the Alliance would prefer having those the week before May 4 in order to be able to send them to international media ahead of time.

To apply for the grant, please submit maximum 1 page describing 1) your planned activities with specific reference to above deliverables, 2) which country you intend to implement in, 3) your budget (grant is max $1000 usd).

Applications should be submitted to admin@roadsafetyngos.org no later than 1 April 2015 8am (GMT).

Find more information about the #SaveKidsLives campaign on www.savekidslives2015.org