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2015 International Year of the Soils – Stories from the soil: an international audio series (AMARC podcasts, 2015)

September 4, 2015

As part of the International Year of Soils, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) is partnering with the Office for Corporate Communication of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help with the production of 80 audio pieces by producers and community radio journalists in an effort to engage discussion, improve public education and encourage the sharing of scientific knowledge on the topic of environment, climate change, food security, agriculture, sustainable development, resilience and economical, cultural and political issues related to soils.

From March to December 2015, two productions a week will be featured on AMARC’s and FAO’s website. This audio series aims to illustrate how different community interact and deal with issues related to soils. AMARC and FAO wishes to share the communities’ voices and help them resonate on an international level.

Filed Under: *MASS MEDIA ROUTES, Economic & Livelihoods, Humanitarian Communications, Participation, Rural Development, Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Tagged With: podcasts

ICTs for Feminist Movement Building: Activist Toolkit (Just Associates, the Association for Progressive Communications and Women’sNet, 2015)

September 3, 2015

This toolkit draws on the experience and contexts of women activists in southern Africa and beyond. The toolkit aims to assist activists to think through their communication strategies in a way that supports movement building. It offers a practical guide to writing a communication strategy and reviews a number of tools (ICTs) and technology-related campaigns which can be used in organising work.

The toolkit is also about feminist practice and how to use tools and communicate in ways that are democratic, make women’s voices stronger and louder whilst challenging stereotypes and discriminatory social norms. The authors hope it will assist activists in making creative, safe and sustainable choices in using ICTs in communication strategies and consider:

  • experiment and be creative in the way you communicate
  • think about how communications can help to build movements for social justice
  • develop a feminist communication strategy for your organisation that amplifies women’s voices and supports them to tell their own stories
  • think about which ICTs to use and when
  • adopt a feminist approach to your use and understanding of ICTs
  • communicate in ways that challenge gender stereotypes
  • think through safety and security concerns that women activists face when using technology
  • understand how power works in design, governance and access to ICTs and challenge inequality in our world
  • design a workshop for your organisation on ICTs and communications.

Filed Under: ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Norms Analysis Tagged With: Feminism, Social Change, Southern Africa, Stereotypes

Building Peace through Social Change Communication: Participatory Video in Conflict-affected Communities (Community Development Journal, 2015)

August 19, 2015

This paper draws on the experience of a participatory video (PV) project conducted in the Rift Valley of Kenya after the 2007–2008 post-election crisis when the country underwent a period of intense ethnic violence. After the fighting reached an end, members of different communities who were now enemies had to return to live together as neighbours. In this case study, the author presents the impact that a collection of PVs created from the work of International Non-Governmental OrganisationMercy Corps for programme evaluation purposes, became a tool for peacebuilding and conflict transformation for the youths in the Rift Valley.

 

Filed Under: Children, Kenya, Participation, Peace & Social Cohesion, Peace Bibliography, Research Papers Tagged With: Participatory Video, Peacebuilding

Participatory Theatre Gains Momentum (UNICEF workshop report 2015)

August 7, 2015

Participatory Theatre Gains Momentum, New Vision and Renewed Focus
Workshop Charts a Path for Strengthening Participatory Theatre as a cross-cutting Communication for Development Platform

 

LUSAKA, Zambia, 16 July 2015 (UNICEF) – More than 70 participants from 18 countries — across six continents — gathered here last week to share, learn, and sharpen strategies on how participatory theatre can engage communities to claim their rights and address specific development and humanitarian challenges.

The seven-day workshop closed over the weekend in a ceremony with representation from Zambia’s Deputy Minister of Tourism and Arts, Hon. Esther Banda, MP, Chairman of the National Arts Council, Mulenga Kwepepe and senior UNICEF officials. Throughout the week, workshop participants deliberated on principles and standards for raising the quality of practice. These were captured in a Lusaka Declaration outlining detailed commitments of theatre practitioners for using participatory theatre as an approach for community engagement, behaviour change and social transformation.

“Participatory Theatre can be a potent medium to address power imbalances in communities which prevent them from fulfilling their basic rights. It can be applied in conflict-affected settings to address underlying causes of tensions and build social cohesion; in post emergency situations to help reduce trauma and in development contexts to tackle harmful socio-cultural norms and practices such as child marriage, female genital mutilation and open defecation,” said Kerida McDonald, UNICEF’s Senior Advisor for Communications for Development at its New York City-based headquarters. “But it is important to ensure that we are not un-wittingly supporting theatre groups to practice one-way messaging in the name of ‘edu-tainment.’”

 Senior C4D Advisor, NYHQ, Kerida McDonald discusses with Hamid El-Shadir - Photo credit: Baldwin Old
Senior C4D Advisor, NYHQ, Kerida McDonald discusses with Hamid El-Shadir – Photo credit: Baldwin Old

UNICEF is partnering with the Zambian-based Africa Directions, a youth theatre non-governmental organization (NGO) to lead a multi-country mapping exercise and the development of guidelines and tools to ensure that participatory theatre is used effectively to empower communities examine their realities, express their opinions and identify collective solutions to issues affecting them.

Said UNICEF Zambia Representative Hamid El-Bashir Ibrahim, PhD., “In Zambia, we are supporting participatory theatre in schools and communities to address a number of issues, including school dropout and teenage pregnancy. We welcome this workshop which is focusing on defining standards of practice and addressing critical issues such as evaluation. If theatre can bring about results for children, create spaces for them to speak and be heard, and advocate for their rights and life-saving needs, then we need to find mechanisms to scale it up and make it sustainable,” said El-Bashir.

The workshop, which was held from 05-11 July, invited expert guest speakers to provide an overview of the historical and current status of participatory theatre including Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn who shared findings from his recently conducted global literature review of participatory theatre; Alessandro Conceição from Brazil’s Centre of the Theatre of the Oppressed; and Professor Dickson Mwansa Zambian Open University. Participants met in groups to consider the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats for participatory theatre and suggest recommendations for strengthening the practice.

Adrian Maanka, Nat'l Arts Council; Kerida McDonald, Senior Advisor C4D Unicef HQ; Mark Chilongu, Director, Africa Directions; Hon. Esther Banda, Dep. Min. of Culture; Dr. Hamid El-Shadir , Unicef Zambia Rep; Madam Mulenga Kapepwe, Chairman, Nat. Arts Council - Photo credit: Baldwin Old
Adrian Maanka, Nat’l Arts Council; Kerida McDonald, Senior Advisor C4D Unicef HQ; Mark Chilongu, Director, Africa Directions; Hon. Esther Banda, Dep. Min. of Culture; Dr. Hamid El-Shadir , Unicef Zambia Rep; Madam Mulenga Kapepwe, Chairman, Nat. Arts Council – Photo credit: Baldwin Old

“The workshop has provided an eye-opener for all of us. Hearing of country experiences from other African nations and across the world has broadened our awareness of a wide range of models for supporting participatory theatre: through drop-in centres, schools, youth centres, university departments and religious networks. There are also exciting innovations we are learning about such as combining participatory theatre with live TV and doing legislative theatre to influence the development of new laws and policies,” said Africa Directions Excecutive Director, Mark Chilongu.

In partnership with UNICEF Communication for Development Section at the organization’s New York headquarters, Africa Directions will be using the outputs of the workshop to develop a global guide for participatory theatre practitioners. The organization will also begin to serve as a regional centre to improve professional exchanges, networking and capacity development to strengthen the contribution of the application of theatre for development. Funding for the initiative has generously provided to UNICEF by the Government of the Netherlands as part of its global peacebuilding initiative, which in many countries UNICEF is implementing in partnership with the Search for Common Ground.

About UNICEF
UNICEF promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child, in everything we do. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere. For more information about UNICEF and its work visit: www.unicef.org/zambia.

Senior C4D Advisor, NYHQ summarizing the way forward for the Global Participatory Theatre initiative – Photo credit: Baldwin Old
Senior C4D Advisor, NYHQ summarizing the way forward for the Global Participatory Theatre initiative – Photo credit: Baldwin Old

Source: Kerida McDonald, UNICEF

 

Filed Under: Awareness Raising, Behaviour Change Communication, C4D and Peace, Case Studies, Peace & Social Cohesion, Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC), Theatre for Development, Zambia Tagged With: Africa Directions, Child marriage, children, Edutainment, Female Genital Mutilation, School Dropout, Schools, Search for Common Ground, Teenage Pregnancy, UNICEF, Youth theatre

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