GNA Grassroots Report Guidelines
Dear Green Network Asia members, communities, readers, and literally everyone!
We would like to invite you to write and publish what you see, experience, and learn directly from the fields at the grassroots level on Green Network Asia’s “Grassroots” platform.
Mission
The roles of the grassroots for the realization of sustainable development around the world are instrumental yet 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 to empower people and communities in various societies through digital publications produced and disseminated by our team. However, we are deeply aware that our limited time, energy, and resources are far from the potential of capturing dynamics and stories in different corners of the world, including the complexity of unique events, voices, lived experiences, efforts, insights, and wisdom from within societies.
That’s why we launched this “Grassroots” platform to facilitate you in publishing field reports and stories from the grassroots within the lens of sustainability-related issues and sustainable development, mainly on perspectives that serve the needs of the grassroots and public interest.
Benefits
By publishing your field reports and stories from the grassroots in Green Network Asia’s “Grassroots” platform, you can help amplify authentic voices of the voiceless and unique stories from the fields organically, benefit from our editorial support such as curation, editing, publication, and dissemination, and reach our multi-stakeholder communities who have passion, enthusiasm, aspiration, influence, and interest in sustainable development, as well as global audiences.
Honorarium
We do not provide an honorarium for organically earned publications on Green Network Asia’s “Grassroots” platform.
Topics of Interest
To be relevant to Green Network Asia’s target audiences, your field reports and stories from the grassroots 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| 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 | Sustainable Value Chain | 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 | Sustainable Finance | Financial Inclusion | Blended Finance | Multi-stakeholder Partnership and Voluntary Commitments | Science | Technology | Trade | Impact Investing | Corporate Responsibility | Corporate Sustainability | Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) | Corporate Accountability
Submission Format
You may submit your field reports and stories from the grassroots in the form of written articles, photo stories, or short-form videos.
Technical Guidelines
Be ethical! Obtain consent from people or communities directly involved in your reporting, and DO NO HARM.
Your grassroots report submission must be original and has never been published on any other platforms before.
Your grassroots report submission may share what you see, experience, and learn directly from the fields at the grassroots level for various purposes, including but not limited to documenting, analysing, reflecting, and communicating observations, facts, and lived experiences to amplify authentic voices of the voiceless who may not be able to publish stories themselves; highlighting concerns and hopes from the grassroots; showcasing good practices and lessons learned for broader communities and the general public to learn.
Green Network Asia particularly bridges the gaps of our diverse readership with “thought leadership” that can bring people together to learn and collectively solve the world’s wicked problems in their respective capacities, regardless of background, affiliation, and ideology. Hence, we encourage you to utilize the “knowing and showing” approach in your field reports and stories from the grassroots.
You should hyperlink all data/sources/references available online into your article draft to ensure credibility and allow our audiences to learn further. Only legitimate sources are accepted.
You should write your field reports and stories from the grassroots in an easy-to-read and popular writing style while maintaining the quality of the content. Avoid clickbait, sensationalism, greenwashing, and socialwashing.
Your article submission should be within 500-700 words, including the title and subheadings.
We highly recommend you use subheadings to highlight important points in your grassroots reports and help our community readers navigate your content more quickly and easily.
You may include up to three high-resolution images to strengthen the messaging of your field reports and grassroots stories, from which one Featured Image will be chosen by our team. The images should be original photos taken in the fields and from the grassroots that you feature. If you don’t have one, you can also use direct links to related images with Creative Commons licensing. You must include the sources, captions you want to use, and alt-text for all images that you use.
You can also submit your grassroots reports in short-form videos, with a maximum duration of 2 minutes, using the 9:16 aspect ratio in portrait orientation. You can create an explainer video or advocacy video to support public causes that you care about.
You can also submit your grassroots reports in the form of photo stories (Instagram carousel) in portrait mode, with a resolution of 1080×1350 and an aspect ratio of 4:5.
You should include alt-text for all visual elements and closed captioning for all audio elements in your submission. We strive to make our education and advocacy efforts accessible to as many people as possible.
Editorial Decision
We do our best to read your submissions and notify you about our editorial decision as soon as possible within one week.
If we don’t get back to you within one week, you may assume that we will not publish your content.
Curation and Editing
We do careful final editing on the grassroots report submission that we have approved to be published. We ask the author to approve all changes before publishing the final version on the web.
Submission
Please send your submission with the subject “Grassroots Report Submission: [Title]” to our editorial team via email:
In the body of the email, please include:
A short profile (name, job title, organization, academic background, industry, sector, expertise, interest, experience, etc, a maximum of 50 words) and a photo of the author.
Statement of originality. Integrity, credibility, and originality are critical to our editorial standards. You must state that your submitted work is original, not plagiarized, has not been previously published, and is not AI-generated. We also that ask you disclose whether and how you’ve used any AI tools in the making of your grassroots report submission.
We look forward to learning, sharing, networking, and collaborating with you to create positive impact for people and the planet through our public education and multi-stakeholder advocacy efforts.
Thank you for your participation!
Last updated: 07 October 2025