The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) launched the Together for the Planet, People, and Peace (T4P) Media Awards to recognize the vital role that media plays in promoting sustainability, peace, and justice for all.
These awards aim to foster media and information literacy and highlight storytelling that promotes sustainable living, justice, equality, and a culture of equal opportunity for everyone.
Award Objectives
The T4P Awards seek to encourage outstanding media storytelling and impactful media initiatives that inspire positive change.
They honor exceptional productions that raise awareness, deepen understanding, and drive action toward sustainable development, peacebuilding, and social progress.
Overall, the awards aim to harness the power of media as a force for good — by celebrating and supporting impactful works that promote the values of sustainability, peace, and social justice.
Award Categories
Awards are presented in the following categories:
T4P Audio Awards – Honoring the best radio program that addresses challenges and proposes solutions or presents positive examples in the three focus areas below.
T4P Video Awards – Honoring the best television program that tackles challenges, proposes solutions, or showcases positive examples in the same three areas.
T4P Special Award – Recognizing the best media initiative, campaign, or project using multiple digital platforms in an innovative way that has made a clear impact in promoting the three focus areas.
Focus Areas
1. The Planet
Programs that explore how humans can live in a dynamic and compassionate relationship with nature — one based on creativity and sustainability rather than destruction.
They promote ethical and sustainable connections between humans and the environment, ensuring the well-being of current and future generations, in alignment with social, cultural, environmental, and spiritual values.
2. People
Programs that explore how individuals and communities can live together guided by compassion, justice, and ethics.
These initiatives aim to inspire positive change through respect, inclusion, and shared responsibility. They support education and storytelling that promote coexistence, celebrate diversity, and address issues such as discrimination, political violence, and social injustice.
3. Peace
Programs that focus on peace and peacebuilding by promoting understanding, reconciliation, and conflict resolution within communities.
They may include education for peace, dialogue, mediation, interfaith cooperation, and community engagement. Such programs work to build sustainable peace by addressing the root causes of conflict and strengthening social bonds.
Eligibility
Open to media organizations, production companies, and independent producers worldwide.
Entries must have been first broadcast between 15 April 2023 and 15 April 2025.
Submissions must be free from political propaganda, advertising, or commercial promotion.
Selection and Judging
The ABU Secretariat will conduct an initial review to verify eligibility.
An international judging panel of at least three experts in each category will evaluate the entries.
Judges are appointed by the ABU Secretariat based on expertise, balanced representation, competence, and other relevant considerations.
Entry Rules
Each organization, production company, or independent producer may submit one entry per focus area (Planet, People, or Peace) in either the audio or video category, and one entry only for the Special Award.
Audio entries must be in MP3 format and include an English transcript with time codes.
Video entries must be in MPEG4 format and include English subtitles or narration.
Special Award entries must include English subtitles, narration, or a detailed description.
Audio entries should be 10–60 minutes long; video entries 15–60 minutes long.
For the Special Award, a series of programs may be submitted with a sample not exceeding 60 minutes.
Each submission must be accompanied by the official T4P Award Entry Form.
Prizes
In each category, one Winner and one Runner-up will be selected for each focus area.
In the Special Award category, only one winner will be chosen.
The jury reserves the right not to award a prize if submissions do not meet the required standards of excellence.
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