Community Article Guidelines

Dear Green Network Asia Community Readers,

We invite you to write and publish your articles in Green Network Asia’s “Community” platform.

Mission

The roles of grassroots individuals and communities in the realization of sustainable development around the world are instrumental. Yet, they often go unnoticed by wider audiences and the general public due to limited resources for publications. 

At Green Network Asia, we work day to day empowering grassroots movements from individuals and communities through digital publications produced organically by our team. However, we – with our limited time, energy, and resources – have much room to grow to capture  stories from as many individuals and communities as possible with the complexity of their unique voices, experiences, efforts, and contributions to society.

Our “Community” platform is here to facilitate you in writing and publishing stories from your community. This way, you can organically share authentic and unique stories from your community, benefit from our editorial support, and reach our multi-stakeholder community readers with passion, enthusiasm, aspiration, influence, and interest in sustainable development and the general public in Asia Pacific and beyond.

Honorarium

We do not provide honorarium for the successfully published articles on our “Community” platform. We dedicate the platform to scaling up our community empowerment efforts and have already spent an operational budget to publish organic articles like this. We fund our operations with our Partnership work and hope to empower grassroots communities in the future sustainably.  

Relevant Topics

Your article should cover any of the following topics:

Poverty Eradication | Rural Development | Food Security | Nutrition | Sustainable Agriculture | Herbs and Spices | Health and Well-Being | Health and Population | Education | Culture | Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Water and Sanitation | Energy Transition| Harm Reduction | Green Economy | Sustainable Tourism | Employment and Decent Work for All | Social Protection | Industry | Sustainable Transport | Reduced Inequalities | Youth | Children | Peoples with Disabilities | Indigenous Peoples Disaster Risk Reduction | Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements | Sustainable Consumption and Production | Chemicals and Waste | Climate Change | Atmosphere | Small Island Developing States | Oceans and Seas | Biodiversity and Ecosystems | Forest | Mountain | Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought | Integrated Decision Making and Participation | Institutional Framework and International Cooperation for Sustainable Development | Capacity Development | Finance | Financial Inclusion | Blended Finance | Multi-stakeholder Partnership and Voluntary Commitments | Science | Technology | Trade | Impact Investing | Blended Finance | Corporate Responsibility (CSR) | Corporate Accountability | ESG

Technical Guidelines

  • Your articles must be original and have never been published on other platforms.
  • Your articles may share your ideas, insights, and experiences, showcase good practices and lessons learned from your community, or highlight concerns in your community.
  • You should hyperlink all data, sources, and references available online into your draft to ensure credibility and allow our community readers to learn further. Only legitimate sources are accepted.
  • You should write your articles in easy reading and popular writing style while maintaining the quality of the content. Avoid clickbait, sensationalism, and greenwashing.
  • Your article should be within 500 – 750 words, including the title and subheadings.
  • You may include one to three high-resolution images. The images should be original photos from your community. If you don’t have one, you can also use direct links to related images with creative common licensing. You must include the sources, captions you want to use, and alt-text.

Editorial Decision

We do our best to read your submissions and notify you about our editorial decision as soon as possible, within two weeks. If we don’t reply within two weeks, you may assume we will not publish your articles.

We do a careful final editing on your articles before publication. This editing may include changes in the content, title, and images.

Submission

Please submit your articles via email to [email protected] cc [email protected] with the subject “Community Submission: [Title]”. In the body of the email, please include the title of your article, the topic, a short profile of the writer, and a photo of the writer.

We hope to learn, share, and collaborate with you in the ecosystem of shared value for sustainable development.

Thank you.

Last updated: 01 September 2023