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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Dear FoME colleagues,</span></p>
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<span class="spanWithBackgroundColor" style="font-family: "DW Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;">DW Akademie is going into a new round of evaluations of our media development projects funded by the German Federal
Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "DW Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The projects in
<b>Africa </b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(Ghana, Kenya, Namibia and Southern Africa, Uganda and Tanzania, Sahel region)</span><span style="font-family: "DW Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>
</b>will be evaluated. </span><span class="spanWithBackgroundColor" style="font-family: "DW Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;">You can find all details in the individual Calls for Proposals under the following links:</span></p>
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<a href="https://akademie.dw.com/en/call-for-proposals-evaluation-of-dw-akademies-projects-in-africa/a-78184706" target="_blank" id="OWA9f35dd20-af4b-89b3-adcc-cf0f3cfc5886" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://akademie.dw.com/en/call-for-proposals-evaluation-of-dw-akademies-projects-in-africa/a-78184706" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody" style="margin: 0px;">https://akademie.dw.com/en/call-for-proposals-evaluation-of-dw-akademies-projects-in-africa/a-78184706</a></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Please apply for each project separately. </span>
<span class="spanWithBackgroundColor" style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Evaluation proposals should be submitted in
</span><span class="spanWithBackgroundColor" style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">electronic form only to
</span><span class="spanWithBackgroundColor" style="font-size: 13.3333px; color: rgb(0, 33, 134); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="mailto:dw-akademie.evaluations@dw.com" id="OWA10a34f68-5d69-8fad-5ff5-3733b0d4ef3e" class="Link_link__c7Z5r Link_withHover__xs3LF Link_withVisited__nv7aW OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 33, 134); display: inline;"><u>dw-akademie.evaluations@dw.com.</u></a><u> </u></span><span style="color: black;">The<b> </b>deadline
for submission of proposals is <b>August 30, 2026.</b></span></div>
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<span class="spanWithBackgroundColor" style="font-family: "DW Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;">We look forward to receiving your proposals!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "DW Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Best wishes,</span></p>
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Anja</div>
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<b>Anja Weber</b></p>
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