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  • How Decades of Hard-Earned Protections and Restoration Reversed the Collapse of California's Treasured Mono Lake

    Bob Berwyn
    2022-11-07 23:24:45 UTC
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    October 30, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Kootzaduka, United States, California

    An ecosystem restoration project that included a conglomeration of cutting water diversions, protection at different governmental levels, research, and stewardship has resulted in enough water reaching Mono Lake to keep the ecosystem alive and healing.

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  • After Roe, abortion's underground railroad gains steam

    Emily Schultheis, Carlo Martuscelli, Mandoline Rutkowski, Jakub Korus
    2022-11-02 18:45:07 UTC
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    October 29, 2022 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: Poland

    Women Help Women is one of several organizations around the world that have formed to provide women with pills needed to complete an at-home medical abortion. An international group of doctors review online medical history questionnaires and provide women with prescriptions for the procedure. The groups are part of a network seeking to increase women's access to abortion as more and more countries pass laws limiting women's abortion access.

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  • The classes trying to stop girls as young as 10 getting pregnant

    Lucy Waldron
    2022-11-18 17:40:43 UTC
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    October 29, 2022 |

    SBS News |

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    Response Location: Guatemala, San Pablo la Laguna

    Adolescent Health Program classes provide free healthcare, access to contraceptives, and educational programs for children lacking sexual health education to reduce childhood pregnancy, empower young women and teach children that they are in control of their bodies. Since the program began in 2018, the rates of childhood pregnancy in two of the most rural villages in the country have significantly declined.

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  • How Cleft Surgery Unites Families, Saves Lives

    Risikat Ramoni
    2022-11-07 21:41:10 UTC
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    October 29, 2022 |

    Daily Trust |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Smile Train is a non-government organization that helps families that are struggling financially to afford cleft lip and palate surgeries for their children in need. Since 2007, Smile Train has successfully paid for 31,000 successful surgeries and has a presence in 45 hospitals across the country.

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  • Care, a responsibility shared by the public and private sectors

    Mónica Quesada Cordero
    2023-03-23 18:33:31 UTC
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    October 29, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    The Win Win Win Program works to provide quality early childhood development and care services through a co-payment system where both the companies and parents buy in to help manage costs and increase access to childcare for children 4-years-old and under.

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  • Students-led Forum Bridging Lack Of Access To Career, Scholarship Opportunities In Sokoto Varsity

    Mazeed Oyeleye
    2022-10-30 16:37:47 UTC
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    October 29, 2022 |

    Africa.com |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

    Two students created the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Scholars’ Forum and hold virtual meetings to give high-achieving students information on scholarships and academic opportunities that are often overlooked or unknown.

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  • Blutig, saftig, leidfrei: Diese Technologie befreit das Fleisch vom schlechten Gewissen

    Felix Austen
    2023-10-31 21:19:12 UTC
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    October 28, 2022 |

    Perspective Daily |

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    Response Location: Singapore

    "Kultiviertes" Fleisch, das im Labor aus Stammzellen gezüchtet wird, verursacht kaum Tierleid und schadet der Umwelt weit weniger als die bisherige Fleischproduktion. Allerdings muss die Technologie bis zur Marktreife noch einige Hürden überwinden.

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  • "Hello Tractor": Per App bestellen Bäuerïnnen in 13 afrikanischen Ländern einen Pflug

    Bettina Rühl
    2023-10-31 21:07:11 UTC
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    October 28, 2022 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Die App "Hello Tractor" ermöglicht es Landwirten in Kenia, durch Kredite zu günstigen Bedingungen Traktoren zu erwerben und landwirtschaftliches Gerät untereinander zu verleihen. Ihre Erträge und ihr Einkommen wachsen dadurch deutlich.

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  • Blind and low-vision voters hail Massachusetts' new statewide online voting option

    Meghan Smith
    2022-10-31 15:05:11 UTC
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    October 28, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    In 2021, Massachusetts debuted a new election service that allows voters with disabilities to cast their ballots electronically through a secure web portal. Originally piloted in five municipalities, the system was used by six people last year and is now available statewide.

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  • False information is everywhere. 'Pre-bunking' tries to head it off early

    Shannon Bond
    2022-11-22 17:13:13 UTC
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    October 28, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Governments, companies, and nonprofits are using a strategy called "pre-bunking" to teach people the tactics and strategies behind misinformation so that they can recognize and scrutinize it when they see it online. After Twitter released several dozen pre-bunks about elections in the United States and Brazil, about 39 percent of users they surveyed said they were more confident that there wouldn't be election fraud, and about half said they were able to pause and question what they saw in online posts.

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  • Solutions journalism…
    • Describes a response to a problem and how it works.
    • Seeks to draw out insights that explain success or failure.
    • Presents the available evidence about the effectiveness of a response.
    • Explains the shortcomings or limitations of the response.
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

    Discover common reasons why a story may miss the mark for inclusion in the Solutions Story Tracker®.

    Learn more about the history of the database.

  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

  • News outlets determine whether all users can access their stories — and some limit the number of stories that anyone can view, or require a subscription. The majority of stories in the database can be accessed for free.

  • We work with journalists, academic researchers and others who feel that our database will support their research. We are especially interested in research that seeks to develop new insights about solutions journalism and its spread and its impact on social problems. Please complete all sections of the Data Request Form, and we will contact you to discuss your request in greater detail.

  • We do not fact-check the stories in the Solutions Story Tracker®. We do ensure that each story comes from a credible news source that has its own editorial infrastructure.

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