Strengthening journalism through structured collaboration
The Collaborative Guide Programme is our core initiative. It is a multi-stakeholder process designed to improve how crises and conflicts are reported, not by telling journalists what to do, but by creating the conditions for shared learning.
Each programme brings together journalists, agents of change, experts, and community representatives to collectively reflect on reporting practices, surface knowledge that rarely reaches newsrooms, and co-create practical resources that journalists can actually use.
The process moves through four stages: design and preparation, facilitated collaborative sessions, guide development, and dissemination. Each programme results in a practical reporting guide, grounded in lived experience and cross-sector expertise.
The impact is systemic. By influencing how journalists work, each guide has the potential to shape reporting across multiple outlets, geographies, and contexts.
Programmes can be designed around specific themes: gender and conflict, displacement, climate and crisis, and more. They can run online, in person, or in hybrid formats. And they are built to be adapted, not replicated wholesale, because context always matters.
For partners and funders
Organisations working on specific thematic areas can partner with aidóni to develop a programme in their field. Partners contribute to how their realities are represented in public narratives, while benefiting from independent, high-quality resources and direct engagement with journalists. All outputs remain editorially independent.
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Our first guide is already in the world. Born out of a workshop at PeaceCon 2024, co-hosted with the Alliance for Peacebuilding and the United States Institute of Peace, the Community-Centred Peace Journalism Guide brings together twelve recommendations from local peacebuilders to journalists covering conflict. It is not a manual. It is a framework, grounded in real conversations, that invites journalists to reflect on their own biases, centre human experience, and report on peace and conflict with greater depth and care.