LAUNCH OF A NEW WEBSITE FOR ONEWORLD-POSHAN MEDIA FELLOWSHIP
Source: Rasmi Avula-IFPRI
OneWorld Foundation, India (OWFI) has launched a new website for the OneWorld-POSHAN Media Fellowship that features news articles, published by fellows, related to undernutrition in India.
Despite targeted initiatives, undernutrition remains one of the major development challenges faced by India today. In fact, malnutrition is the underlying cause in roughly half of the 2.1 million deaths in children under the age of five each year.
One of POSHAN’s objectives is to mobilize diverse stakeholders around the issue of undernutrition. POSHAN uses many different approaches to share information resources on nutrition, and the OneWorld-POSHAN media fellowship program has become an important outreach tool to support these efforts.
The media fellowship is managed by OWFI and was initiated in May 2013 with a call for proposals. The fellowship aimed to bring together Indian journalists with a demonstrated interest in human development issues and provide them with support to enhance reporting on maternal and child undernutrition.
The OneWorld-POSHAN Media Fellowship website provides information related to the current fellows, the selection process, jury members, and news articles published (in both English and Hindi) by fellows related to undernutrition in India. The call for proposals, application form and background information on undernutrition also can be found on the site.
What have the POSHAN media fellows been writing about?
- Saadia Azim, a freelance journalist has written about anemia and malnutrition among poor communities in Bihar
- Neha Dixit, a freelance journalist, has written about socio-cultural and tribal issues in Kerala
- Pankaj Jaiswal, Deputy Bureau Chief, Hindustan Times, has written about community newborn care and nutrition projects in Uttar Pradesh
- Mukesh Kerjriwal, Special Correspondent, Dainik Jagran, has written about health and internal security in Delhi
- Kavita Kishore, a reporter for The Hindu, has developed articles on health and education in Tamil Nadu
- Malavika Vyawahare, The New York Times, has written about nutrition and hunger in Maharashtra
Read more information on the One World POSHAN Media Fellowships site.
OWFI is a not-for-profit media and ICT-for-Development organization that focuses on social and sustainable development and highlighting issues of national importance through media fellowships.
