The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat is running the 2009 SADC Water Media Awards Competition. The awards are offered in the fields of print, radio, television, and photojournalism. Each category carries a prize of US$2,000.

Entries for the Water Media Awards should highlight any of the following:

• fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential to sustain life, development, and the environment;
• broader participation in water development and management, involving users, planners, and policy makers at all levels and across sectors;
• the role of women in the provision, management, and safeguarding of water; and
• the economic value of water in all its competing uses and recognising water as both a social and economic good.

Click here for more information about the award in PDF format.


Further details on the rules may also be obtained from the department responsible for water affairs in each member state.

Prospective entrants are invited to submit their entries accompanied by proof of their nationality to the National Adjudication Committee in their respective countries. For contact details of countries, please contact the Secretariat below. All submissions must contain full contact details of the journalist, including: passport-sized photograph, physical address, telephone, and, where applicable, fax number and email address.

Click here for the application form in PDF format.

SADC Water Media Awards Rules [PDF] on March 17 2009.