Solutions Journalism Field Reporting Trip 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 15, 2026

Are you a journalist, reporter, producer, or editor able to study what’s working to enhance household planning and sexual and reproductive well being, and convey these options to your viewers? Apply for the Solutions Journalism Field Reporting Trip to Edo State—an OPPORTUNITY to see firsthand what’s working to enhance reproductive well being, have interaction with the communities driving that change, and sharpen the options journalism reporting abilities required to inform these tales with proof and nuance.

Organised by Nigeria Health Watch with help from MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices (MSI Nigeria), this fingers-on reporting expertise, happening within the final week of July 2026, is designed for journalists captivated with telling impactful tales on household planning and sexual and reproductive well being by way of the lens of options journalism.

Benefits

• Training: Participate in an in-depth Solutions Journalism coaching session that equips you to maneuver past drawback-based mostly reporting. Learn methods to determine proof-based mostly responses to reproductive well being challenges and craft compelling, nuanced tales.
• Field Reporting: Visit communities within the state to interact with well being suppliers, ladies, males, younger individuals, native leaders and stakeholders within the state. Observe firsthand the interventions enhancing entry to household planning providers.
• Story Development: Receive editorial steerage to pitch and form tales that meet options journalism’s rigorous requirements. Explore how neighborhood-based mostly programmes are tackling longstanding reproductive well being gaps.
• Networking: Connect with fellow journalists, well being employees, policymakers, and programme implementers to construct lengthy-time period collaborations that strengthen your work.

Eligibility

• Open for journalist, reporter, producer, or editor in Nigeria.
• Journalists working within the Southwest area, particularly Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Ondo, states are inspired to apply.

Expectations

• Participants will publish not less than one options-centered story following the reporting journey.
• Stories ought to spotlight proof of effectiveness, limitations, and neighborhood views.
• Published work will contribute to nationwide conversations on household planning and reproductive well being and can be amplified by way of MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices and Nigeria Health Watch platforms.

Application

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For extra data, go to Solutions Journalism Field Reporting Trip.