Applications Invited for Journalimsfund Money Trail Grants 2021

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About the Organization:

Journalismfund.eu, a non-profit organisation, is dedicated to advancing investigative and independent journalism across Europe. It ultimately serves the public interest, furthers accountability as well as transparency, and contributes to critical thinking and well-informed debate. Journalismfund.eu administers grants to foster exemplary investigative journalism throughout Europe and beyond and to promote journalistic innovation. Journalismfund.eu’s activities are made possible through the support it receives from public, private, and corporate funders.

Money Trail Grants

Money Trail is a collaborative project between highly regarded journalism and training organisations – Journalismfund.eu, Finance Uncovered, Free Press Unlimited – and Oxfam Novib.

In Money Trail, Journalismfund.eu offers working grants for (teams of) African, Asian and European journalists to investigate cross-border illicit financial flows, tax abuse money laundering and corruption in Africa, Asia and Europe. Grants are awarded to journalists solely by Journalismfund.eu, with no input or oversight at any stage from the consortium as a whole. The primary goal of this grant is to expose illicit finance, tax abuse, corruption and money laundering.

Why Money Trail?

Money Trail exists because countries throughout the world lose billions of dollars through tax abuse, money laundering and grand corruption. Investigative journalism is key to combatting this situation. Such work clearly can have a tremendous impact. Brilliant reporting by journalists and some notable civil society organisations has resulted in revenue authorities and enforcement agencies recovering desperately needed funds. Politicians have been forced to act. There are so many stories all over the world yet to be told. This is your chance to help tell them.

Who can apply?

• Intercontinental journalist teams from Africa, Asia and Europe.
• Regional cross-border collaborations in Africa and Asia.
• Exceptional proposals from individual journalists in Africa and Asia whose story includes an offshore element in a national story - where the money trail leads to a tax haven - can be accepted.
• European journalists planning on applying must collaborate with an African or Asian journalist.
• Foreign correspondents in Africa or Asia must collaborate with local journalists.

Grant: There are 11 application rounds in total for this project. The total available amount for the next call is around €50,000: this amount is distributed among different projects.

Duration: 6 months.

Deadline:  14 December 2020

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