Resource & Opportunities

This YALI Network guide introduces core ethical principles for journalism—truth, minimizing harm, independence, and accountability providing a foundational resource for young and emerging African journalists.

The Rory Peck Trust offers rolling bursaries to freelance journalists globally, helping make Hostile Environment and First Aid Training (HEFAT) courses more accessible and affordable, prioritizing those working in high-risk environments.

This April 2024 academic article explores the South African Press Code through the lens of African moral theory, highlighting Afro-centric ethical values such as communal harmony, empathy, and inclusive narratives in journalism.

This FEMNET resource (May 2025) outlines an initiative training journalists to report on climate change in Africa through a feminist lens, emphasizing the centering of women's experiences, leadership, and solutions.

The Reuters Institute's March 2025 report analyzes women in top editorial roles globally, highlighting persistent gender gaps and leadership challenges in African markets like South Africa and Kenya.

This February 2025 academic paper examines cybermisogyny and anti-feminist backlash against women journalists in several African countries, detailing harassment forms and the lack of recourse.

This FEMNET resource (April 2025) outlines an African-led, feminist approach to SRHR, emphasizing the importance of framing SRHR within African realities, combating misinformation, and advocating for data-driven policies.

These GBV Area of Responsibility (AoR) guidelines prioritize survivor safety, dignity, and confidentiality when reporting on Gender-Based Violence in humanitarian contexts, vital for journalists in crisis settings.

These IFJ guidelines (launched Jan 2025) offer concrete tools and a checklist for journalists and media houses to create more representative, accurate, respectful, and stereotype-free content.

This February 2025 report from the International Press Institute (IPI) documents 376 press freedom violations in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2024, noting that 15% of victims were female journalists, with state actors as primary implicators.

Amnesty International's May 2025 report details severe restrictions on media freedom in East and Southern Africa, including repressive laws and widespread intimidation of journalists reporting on corruption and human rights.

This CECOE report analyzes the media coverage and portrayal of women across various Ethiopian media platforms between August 2023 and March 2024, offering country-specific insights.

This February 2025 qualitative study examines the pervasive sexism, professional limitations, and patriarchal cultural constraints experienced by female SABC radio reporters in South Africa.

This Dart Center guide offers journalists quick, evidence-informed advice on news choices, language, and ethics when reporting on trauma, including sensitive issues like racism and sexual violence.

The Pulitzer Center offers rolling grants for underreported stories in Africa (covering health, education, climate, etc.) and global reporting grants with no topic restrictions, supporting local and international journalists.

The Rory Peck Trust offers emergency financial grants to freelance journalists globally whose work or livelihood is at risk due to their reporting, covering medical aid, relocation, or equipment.

The Pulitzer Center offers rolling grants for investigative and data-driven journalism projects focusing on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls globally.

UNESCO's Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media (GSIM) provide a comprehensive framework for media organizations to assess and improve gender sensitivity in both their internal operations and their content, vital for promoting equality in African media.

The annual Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index assesses media freedom globally. Recent findings highlight significant challenges and declines in press freedom across many African countries.

This major UNESCO/ICFJ global study reveals that 73% of women journalists experience online violence, detailing its forms, severe mental health impacts, and includes a Nigeria case study.

This comprehensive handbook from the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) offers women journalists practical, experience-based advice on physical safety, digital security, and psychosocial well-being, including gender-specific guidance.

This March 2025 report by Réseau des Femmes Leaders pour le Développement (RFLD) advocates for an intersectional approach to gender-sensitive journalism in West and Central Africa, emphasizing diverse perspectives and challenging stereotypes

This March 2025 statement from the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) details critical challenges for women in media across Africa, including severe security risks, economic inequality, and hostile work environments

This Media Defence report (June 2024) details online violence against women journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa, analyzing state failures, rights implications, and offering recommendations.

The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) offers grants to African women-led organizations and feminist movements. Media-related projects aligning with women's rights, economic empowerment, or addressing GBV may be eligible.

The IWMF's Kari Howard Fund provides grants up to US$5,000 specifically for African women and nonbinary journalists to produce impactful narrative storytelling projects.

This practical guide from Stellenbosch University helps journalists reframe news gathering (the 5W's & 1H) through a gender and diversity lens, offering checklists for content review.

The Kigali Declaration, adopted at the AWiM23 conference, outlines a crucial action plan and minimum standards for all media stakeholders to combat gender violence in and through media across Africa.