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Social Voices We’re a fast-growing media org dedicated to driving collective responses to social issues to improve development outcomes & advance democracy.

What happens when journalists have sharper tools to interrogate power and spotlight real solutions? They don’t just repo...
25/08/2025

What happens when journalists have sharper tools to interrogate power and spotlight real solutions? They don’t just report problems, they change the conversation.

One of the most powerful outcomes of our recent Solutions-Focused Gender Equity Reporting Training ( ) was the emergence of a charged community of storytellers, activists, and changemakers —questioning, probing, and pushing boundaries around how gender is reported.

Building on that momentum, we are excited to launch the monthly Solutions Story Lab — a training space where we explore tools, ideas, and frameworks to strengthen how solutions stories are told.

For this first edition, we are deeply honoured to welcome Bukky Shonibare — an erudite strategist, advocate, and the visionary behind the Womanity Index, a data-driven framework that measures how subnational governments are preventing and responding to gender-based violence.

She will be guiding our community of storytellers to sharpen their questions, ground their stories in evidence, and craft narratives that not only hold power accountable but also point the way toward change.

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Do you know what happens when a newborn isn’t registered for a birth certificate?Without it, the child’s name, age, and ...
20/08/2025

Do you know what happens when a newborn isn’t registered for a birth certificate?

Without it, the child’s name, age, and even existence remain unacknowledged by the State.

In Tiko, a coastal town in Cameroon’s Southwest Region, thousands of children have grown up without this first document of recognition.

The result? No legal right to sit for national exams, no access to travel, and missed opportunities that could shape their future.

To change this, UNICEF Cameroon launched the My Name Campaign — raising awareness and registering as many children as possible.

Across the country’s 374 councils, the challenge was clear: restore identity, one child at a time. But in Tiko, the campaign became more than a directive. It turned personal.

By March 2025, over 3,000 children had been registered, making Tiko one of the top-performing councils in the region. How was this achieved?

In our latest report, Lucrece Armande Françoise Etonde documents the successes, the challenges, and the persistence of local actors working to secure every child’s right to an identity.

Read full report 👇🏻

As the problem spanned all ages, they visited schools, talking to teacher and students who often had no birth certificates.

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