(Funder: Solutions Journalism Network)

The Solutions Journalism Africa Initiative project, implemented with support from the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) USA, trains and supports newsroom and freelance journalists across Nigeria to investigate and report on how people respond to various social problems. This helps to address the predominant trend of problem-focused reporting that contributes to audiences avoiding news. Since its inception in 2020, the project has helped integrate this practice across newsrooms in Nigeria. It has also worked with academic institutions to reach student journalists. 

The project also has a fellowship component that equips freelance journalists and academics to spread the practice across Nigeria. Beyond their stories, the fellows and newsroom journalists are helping to institutionalise and advocate for solutions journalism in their workplaces and among their peers. The objectives in the second phase are grouped into five streams. In addition to supporting more media organisations to learn and integrate solutions journalism in their practice, the second phase had other objectives aimed at spreading the practice in Nigeria.