The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta has increased the 2024 Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) with the introduction of Nigeria Delta Development Reporting.
The Knowledge Management and Communication Manager, Helen Bassey-Osijo, said in a statement made available to the newsmen that the introduction of the awards is in line with the vision of PIND.
The PIND Prize rewards solution journalism reports on issues within the Niger Delta that align with PIND’s interests and focus areas, which are: reducing poverty, powering coastal communities, nurturing youth employment, fostering stability, empowering local organisations, influencing government policies, programmes, and practises, and gender equality and social inclusion (GESI).
Following an intense judging process, a winner and two runners-up have emerged and will be awarded their prizes at the DAME Awards on Sunday, December 10, 2022, at the Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos.
The PIND Media Solution Journalism Innovative Grant (PIND Media Grant) was initiated in 2019 to share PIND’s successful development models, approaches, and lessons from its experiences and partners in the Niger Delta region.
The goal is also to highlight innovations promoting pro-poor development, advocacy, and awareness of significant issues limiting economic development and peacebuilding in the region. In 2022, PIND chose to channel the grant towards the sponsorship of a media award in development journalism on the platform of DAME.
DAME, an annual media awards scheme set up to reward outstanding performance in the mass media, was established in 1992 as a non-profit organisation to stimulate and celebrate excellence, talent, and enterprise within the press.
DAME is the most consistent media award in Africa, having held 30 uninterrupted editions, and has inducted over 560 names into its Hall of Fame in print journalism, broadcasting, and advertising.
With the media grants, PIND believes journalists reporting on the Niger Delta can go beyond routine coverage of the region to empower different stakeholders with information that can transform people’s lives, especially marginalised populations.
PIND expects that the quality and quantity of coverage will promote understanding, practice and behaviour change, recognition, and the adoption of PIND’s development models.”
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