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$2,500 SADC Media Award for Journalists

  • Organization: Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat
  • Type: Award
  • Location: Global
  • Deadline: February 28, 2027
  • Funding: Fully Funded

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat in Gaborone runs the SADC Media Awards, which since 1996 have recognised journalists whose work helps people across Southern Africa understand regional cooperation and integration. The 2027 competition has four categories, Print, Radio, Television and Photojournalism, and is open to journalists who are nationals of the 16 SADC Member States. You enter work already published or broadcast in 2026, through the national committee in your own country. **What you get:** - US$2,500 for the first prize winner in each of the four categories - US$1,000 for the runner-up in each category, paid in your own country through the National Contact Point - A certificate signed by the SADC Chairperson - First prize winners are announced at the Opening Ceremony of the 47th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Zambia **What you'll do:** - Choose one piece of your work published or broadcast between January and December 2026 on a regional integration theme, such as infrastructure, the economy, water, culture, sport or agriculture - Complete the SADC Media Award Entry Form, typed, with a passport-sized photograph and your editor's endorsement - Submit it with proof of nationality to the National Adjudication Committee, through the SADC National Media Coordinator in your country **Key dates:** - Competition launched 1 October 2026 - Entries due to your National Adjudication Committee by 28 February 2027 - Winners announced at the 47th SADC Summit in Zambia (date not yet published) **More information:** - Entry forms and further information come from the SADC National Media Coordinator in your country; the list with contact details is at https://www.sadc.int/media-coordinators - The national committee picks the best entry in each category to send to the Regional Adjudication Committee, whose decision is final - The regional committee may decide not to award a prize in a category - Questions: SADC Secretariat Communication and Public Relations Unit, +267 395 1863

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$2,500 SADC Media Award for Journalists

Feb 28, 2027 23:59:00 Africa/Gaborone
Opportunity type
Award
Funding
Fully Funded
Location
Global
Deadline
Feb 28, 2027 23:59:00 Africa/Gaborone

About this opportunity

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat in Gaborone runs the SADC Media Awards, which since 1996 have recognised journalists whose work helps people across Southern Africa understand regional cooperation and integration. The 2027 competition has four categories, Print, Radio, Television and Photojournalism, and is open to journalists who are nationals of the 16 SADC Member States. You enter work already published or broadcast in 2026, through the national committee in your own country.

What you get:

  • US$2,500 for the first prize winner in each of the four categories
  • US$1,000 for the runner-up in each category, paid in your own country through the National Contact Point
  • A certificate signed by the SADC Chairperson
  • First prize winners are announced at the Opening Ceremony of the 47th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Zambia

What you'll do:

  • Choose one piece of your work published or broadcast between January and December 2026 on a regional integration theme, such as infrastructure, the economy, water, culture, sport or agriculture
  • Complete the SADC Media Award Entry Form, typed, with a passport-sized photograph and your editor's endorsement
  • Submit it with proof of nationality to the National Adjudication Committee, through the SADC National Media Coordinator in your country

Key dates:

  • Competition launched 1 October 2026
  • Entries due to your National Adjudication Committee by 28 February 2027
  • Winners announced at the 47th SADC Summit in Zambia (date not yet published)

More information:

  • Entry forms and further information come from the SADC National Media Coordinator in your country; the list with contact details is at https://www.sadc.int/media-coordinators
  • The national committee picks the best entry in each category to send to the Regional Adjudication Committee, whose decision is final
  • The regional committee may decide not to award a prize in a category
  • Questions: SADC Secretariat Communication and Public Relations Unit, +267 395 1863

Who can apply

  • You must be a national of a SADC Member State and send proof of nationality with your entry
  • Staff of the SADC Secretariat and of institutions contracted by SADC cannot enter
  • The work must have been published or broadcast between January and December 2026 by a registered or authorised media house or agency, or on its website, in a SADC Member State
  • The theme must be regional integration in the SADC region
  • Work must be in English, French, Portuguese or a national indigenous language of the region, with a transcript in English, French or Portuguese
  • Print: 100 to 2,000 words. Radio: 1 to 30 minutes. Television: 1 to 45 minutes, both on CD or USB with a Word transcript
  • Photojournalism: one photo, or a spread of up to 20 photos from one issue, with the original newspaper it ran in
  • Use the official SADC Media Award Entry Form, typed, with full contact details, a passport-sized photograph and an editor's endorsement

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Good to know

  • +Run by the SADC Secretariat, an intergovernmental body, every year since 1996
  • +Fixed cash prizes stated on the official page: US$2,500 first, US$1,000 runner-up, in each of four categories
  • +No application fee anywhere in the rules, call or entry form
  • +Full rules, call and entry form published on sadc.int

Worth checking yourself

  • !Only nationals of the 16 SADC Member States can enter: Angola, Botswana, Comoros, DR Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • !Entries go to your country's National Adjudication Committee through its SADC National Media Coordinator, not to the Secretariat; contact yours early, as the deadline falls on a Sunday and radio, TV and photo entries need physical media or the original newspaper
  • !No closing time is published; LOT shows 23:59 Gaborone time, and coordinators in UTC+3 and UTC+4 countries close earlier on their own clocks
  • !The work must already have been published or broadcast in 2026 by a registered media house, so this suits working journalists rather than students
  • !Theme must be SADC regional integration

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$2,500 SADC Media Award for Journalists
Feb 28, 2027 23:59:00 Africa/Gaborone