August 1 2007

Sponsored by the World Bank and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA), this award is for a radio or television feature that focuses on development issues - including those that are social or economic - or dealing with good governance or with technical or environmental initiatives, or the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations (UN).

According to the organisers, the "programme must be more than a simple narrative. It must be engaging for a wide audience, and focus clearly on a development issue. Production values will be taken into account. As part of the awards package the World Bank is offering global distribution of short versions of the winning programmes on UNIFEED and NewsMarket. (Unifeed is a global satellite feed that distributes footage on development stories to over 400 Associated Press clients, at no charge. NewsMarket is the web-based video platform that is used to post audio and visual material for broadcasters to download free of charge to use in their stories on development.) Global distribution will be subject to understanding on rights."

The minimum duration of the programme should be 10 minutes and the maximum duration must not exceed 60 minutes. The programme must be made or broadcast for the first time between October 2006 and July 2007.

Applications can be team or individual entries and programme entries may be in any language but they must be subtitled in English for television entries. Radio programmes in languages other than English must be sent with a clear text in English explaining the concept of the programme and its impact.

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The programme's duration must be clearly marked on the DVD or CD. Four copies of each application should be sent with 4 DVDs, (PAL) unencrypted for television features, and 4 copies of CDs for radio features.

CBA members and affiliates can send 1 free entry per category, but there is a fee of UK£20 for every additional entry in each category. Non-members should pay a fee of UK£60 per entry.

The deadline for application is August 1 2007.

Entries will not be acknowledged and only the winners will be informed.

Return the entry form to:

CBA Awards

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association

17 Fleet Street

London EC4Y 1AA

United Kingdom

Click here to download the entry form and guidelines as an MS Word document.

Click here for the winners of last year's competition.