Call for Expression
Fellowship for Journalists

COAST Foundation is an independent, non-profit, and progressive coastal NGO in Bangladesh, having registration with the NGO Affairs Bureau of the Government of Bangladesh.  COAST has special consultative status with the UN ECOSOC.  COAST’s main objective is to uplift the socio-economic conditions of the poor and vulnerable coastal people through its intervention like micro finance and technical support, disaster risk reduction, Social Justice, primary health care, non-formal education etc. It has also a linkage between local level and policy level advocacy.

COAST is implementing the Sustainable Our Ocean project in association with Manusher Jonno Foundation and funded by Danish Institute for Human Rights. Under this project. COAST is now requesting Expression of Interest from Journalist for a short-term fellowship.  Brief of the fellowship is mentioned bellow:  

  • Duration: 2 months
  • Number of fellowships: 2 for 2 journalists, one for a national English Newspaper (for English reporting) and one for TV Channel (for Bangla reporting).
  • Assignment: Gathering data on small-scale fishermen in Cox’s Bazar (Moheshkhali) and Barguna (Patharghata), and publishing two news pieces based on the findings. The length of the article should be at least 2500 words.
  • Awards: Each fellowship is worth BDT 100000 (one lakh taka). 25% of the reward will be paid when the agreement is signed, 50% after the first report/article is published, and 25% after the second item is published. All payment will be made with Account Payee Cheque.
  • Selection process: Interested journalists should submit their interest together with a brief CV and a sample of three articles/reports that have already been published. COAST authority has complete discretion in accepting or rejecting any Expression of Interest.
  • Starting date: from June 1, 2022.

Interested journalists are hereby requested to submit their interest with documents to info@coastbd.net with copy to omour@coastbd.net by 30th of May, 2022