Focus on NGOs and media
Wingseed ranks 6703 in Africa and 3840 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 1806, and 2060 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 11514 and 11419 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Sexual minorities are having a hard time of it in Africa these days. There’s a witch hunt on for homosexuals in Malawi, a pending draconian anti-gay bill in Uganda, and of course life for members of the LGBTI has never been easy in Kenya or Zimbabwe either. But nevertheless,
The tactical technology collective has produced several very useful toolkits on using technology for advocacy. Their latest is a documentary film called 10 Tactics for turning information into action. The film is available on DVD, which comes in a great little pack along with a set of cards, containing
I love this campaign video for the Robin Hood Tax, starring Bill Nighy. The Robin Hood Tax is a proposal for a tiny, tiny tax on speculative financial transactions. This would generate billions of dollars, which could be used to fight poverty and climate change, and improve public services.
One of the best media advocacy efforts I’ve come across in recent months is the “Lords of the Bling” campaign, by the Aids and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (Arasa). The campaign involves a range of media material showing how much money Africa’s political leaders have spent on extravagant
It’s a book that I’ve looked at every time I’m in a bookshop, but somehow haven’t yet bought. But now it’s definitely on my to-buy list. The book is called From Poverty to Power — how active citizens and effective states can change the world. It’s written by Duncan
I”ve had a bit of involvement in the use of cell phones in advocacy and communication campaigns, and for a long time I’ve believed that most organisations should be taking mobiles much more seriously than they already do. But some recent meetings have again brought home to me in a powerful
I recently visited the Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP) in Kampala, Uganda. Over time they have built some good relationships with the media. I am used to a number of organisations having hard words for the media, but Cedovip seems to take a gentler approach — they do offer
I’ve just finishded reading Bury the Chains, Adam Hochschild’s history of the British campaign to abolish slavery. It’s the story of what was essentially the first ever large-scale campaign for human rights — and as such, it still holds many lessons for advocacy campaigns today. One aspect of the campaign that
In my work supporting NGOs in media advocacy, there’s one thing that comes up again and again in conversations, but it’s almost never addressed in the several toolkits and handbooks one can find on engaging the media. Everyone working on the ground acknowledges it’s a problem, but nobody seems to have
American media scholar Eric Alterman writes about how the ongoing demise of newspapers in the USA is threatening investigative journalism at the local leve, with the danger that the lack of good watchdogs will allow corruption to thrive. Read a summary here or Alterman’s full article here. In South Africa we’ve
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