Europe Foundation continues to support civic monitoring and advocacy efforts for more accountable, transparent, and needs-based public policy making in Georgia. To this end, the Foundation is pleased to announce a call for proposals that aim at shining a light on systemic corruption or at exposing poor governance in Georgia through fact-finding, reporting, and advocacy activities geared toward bringing violations to the forefront and effecting changes that will improve the lives of Georgian citizens. The projects awarded under this grant scheme should establish CSO-media partnerships to investigate issues of common interest to citizens of Georgia and to implement evidence-based advocacy campaigns that aim at addressing the identified issues.

Europe Foundation is seeking to identify journalists and media outlets, who are interested and able to engage in holistic investigation of a single topic of interest, such as corruption or corporate wrongdoing, and who are able to involve more partners that can support their watchdog and advocacy efforts, such as civil society organizations, civic activists, etc.

In addition to grant support, Europe Foundation offers an unprecedented mentorship opportunity from experienced US-based investigative journalists and professors, who will work directly with the grantees to flash out ideas for investigations, to teach them new techniques, and to support them in developing feasible action plans for carrying out the work. Successful grantees will have a chance to be considered for additional support to take their work to the bi-annual Global Shining Light Award competition (see at https://gijn.org/awards/) run by the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN).

Application Submission Procedures:

Interested applicants may submit the application by email to info@epfound.ge no later than April 25, 2023, by 23:00 local time (please indicate Watchdog Reporting for Change in the subject line of your email).

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