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Breaking the Conflict Cycle, Building Peaceful Communities: participatory photography and storytelling with African diasporas in Sydney (Journal of Communication Inquiry, 2018)

This article discusses the experience of a participatory photography project that brought together young people from the Congolese, Rwandan, Burundian, and Ugandan communities living in Sydney (Australia), whose lives are still impacted by the legacy of the conflicts that have been ravaging the African Great Region.

This initiative aimed to provide a space to encourage communication between different groups and enable the promotion of peace between communities starting from the youth is analyzed here, and reflections are offered on the use of this method with diaspora groups.

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A Video Storytelling Method to Enhance Agricultural Extension (GCFS Innovation, 2017)

This handbook was prepared for a workshop held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on June 13, 2017. Representatives from the Tanzanian government, university researchers, NGOs working in Tanzania and donor organizations attended the workshop, which was organized by the Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI) at Michigan State University, in collaboration with Farm Input Promotions (FIPS) Africa. The workshop was based on several years of experience working with narrative videos as an approach to extension in GCFSI projects in Malawi and Kenya. GCFSI is funded through the Higher Education Solutions Network program at USAID.

The handbook addresses the following topics that may be useful to other organizations seeking to use narrative storytelling videos as educational tools:

  • Developing a narrative, storytelling style to communicate content
  • Involving community members and extension professionals in content creation that is contextually relevant
  • Implementing a screening strategy that enhances exposure to and understanding of video content
  • Coordinating and combining dissemination of video content with other communication media
  • Evaluating outcomes from the use of both participatory and narrative storytelling videos

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Entertainment-Education and child marriage: a scoping study for Girls Not Brides (Center for Media & Health 2017)

Developed by the Center for Media & Health for Girls Not Brides, this report looks at the opportunities and challenges of Entertainment-Education as a way to address child marriage. Informed by a range of practical and theoretical insights, the report analyses a selection of current initiatives, draws out key lessons and provides top tips for practitioners and donors of Entertainment-Education initiatives.

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Our Valuable Voices. Community Digital Storytelling for Good Programming and Policy Engagement (Care International in Vietnam 2015)

This publication highlights the experience and lessons learned from a Community Digital Storytelling activity by CARE International through its Integrated Community-based Adaptation in the Mekong (ICAM) Project, funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. It explores ways Community Digital Storytelling can be used to strengthen people’s capacity and resolve as equal participants in decision-making spaces.

Community Digital Storytelling (CDST) is a participatory development process where community members develop and share photo-video stories as a means to raise awareness, stimulate dialog and influence policy.

– Our Valuable Voices (English): http://www.careclimatechange.org/files/CARE_Vietnam_CDST_EN.pdf

– Our Valuable Voices (Vietnamese): http://www.careclimatechange.org/files/CARE_Vietnam_CDST_Vietnamese.pdf

– CDST Technical Guidelines (from the Africa Adaptation Learning Program – ALP): http://www.careclimatechange.org/files/CDSTGuidelines.pdf

Make Me a Change Agent: A Multisectoral SBC Resource for Community Workers and Field Staff (The FSN Network and CORE Group 2015)

This publication aims to to build the skills of community-level workers, such as community development agents, community health workers, and agriculture extension agents, so that they can be more effective behavior change promoters in their communities. The lessons are generic rather than sector specific and cover skills such as communication and storytelling with the aim of  helping development workers become more effective as an agent of behavior change.

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