Panos South Asia, with its headquarters in Kathmandu, is part of the family of Panos Institutes worldwide that encourage and facilitate public discourse and debate on a wide range of issues.
Treatment & Care : For People living with HIV/AIDS
Monitoring & Evaluation: Work in Progress
Panos South Asia invites applications for the South Asia Climate Change Award (SACCA) Fellowships 2012. The fellowships are being offered through a Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) funded project ‘Enhancing climate change awareness and understanding amongst journalists in South Asia’, managed by Panos South Asia with technical cooperation from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Applications are invited from print, television, radio and web journalists writing / reporting on climate change and environment issues from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The fellowships will support writing / reporting stories on climate change from the region. The fellows will also have the opportunity to participate in a training workshop and field trip that will link them with their peers from the neighbouring countries and understand climate-related issues from a South Asian perspective.The last date for receiving applications is June 15th,2012 ...More>>
Panos South Asia invites applications for part-time positions in its Nepal Office.
Panos South Asia's Nepal Country Office is currently seeking qualified personnel to monitor and analyse hydropower and economics-related news (print and broadcast). Graduates with a sound knowledge of hydropower and economic issues of Nepal & the South Asian region are invited to apply before 16th March,2012 to psa@panossouthasia.org
Panos South Asia invites submissions for its “Best reporting on Dams and Development” award Panos Institute South Asia’s RELAY programme invites print journalists based in Northeast India, to submit pieces to be considered for its “ Best reporting on Dams and Development” Awards. The award is Panos’ bid to encourage quality reportage on the issue in the Northeast region. Applicants may submit up to three pieces of about 1000- 1500 words, published between January 2011 and January 2012.Last date for submissions is 5th March, 2012 ...More>>
Panos-CMS Young Environment Journalists Awards 2011 presented Panos South Asia in association with CMS has announced the Panos- CMS Young Environment journalists Awards for the year 2011.Soma Basu of The Statesman, Kolkata is the winner in the print category and Manu C Kumar of Manorama News, Mumbai is the winner in the Electronic Media category. The awards which includes a citation and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 each were presented to the winners at the inaugural ceremony of the CMS-Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife film festival,on December 6th at New Delhi.The awards are presented for excellence in environmental journalism to individuals who have done "exemplary investigative and inspired reporting on environment issues in the country" ...More>>
Panos South Asia collates a book of Oral testimonies of Positive People The Oral testimony tool uses the power of storytelling to bring neglected subjects to the fore and give a platform for voices and perspectives which are often rendered voiceless in the public sphere. These testimonies will also facilitate development of a training kit to aid prograame implementers to work towards inclusive HIV/AIDS policies ...More>>
Panos South Asia hosts its ninth Media Gatekeepers’
retreat at Chateau Jemeppe, Belgium PSA’s 2010 Media Gatekeepers’ retreat which brought together Editors
from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan deliberated on the topic ‘No progress
beyond ‘Lakshman Rekha ‘ in Kashmir. The discussants included Bharat
Bhushan, Anant Nath,Siddharth Varadarajan, Surya Gangadharan and Om Thanvi
from India; Shahir Zahine, Dr Hussain Yasa and Danish Karokhel from
Afghanistan; Azhar Abbas, Zahid Hussain and Khalid Hameed Farooqi from Pakistan.
The event which took place on October 2nd and 3rd was moderated by Kanak Mani
Dixit, Editor, Himal Southasian ...More>>