- Pakistan - Amplifying Voices

Bright Home – Cholistan

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:39:11 +0000

Roshni-Ro-Ghar (Bright Home)

Our partner, Amplifying Voices Pakistan is working with a Marwari community in the desert region, Cholistan, to create new opportunies for women and young people. New Hope is one of the Bright Home group of projects, integrating community-centred media with vocational skills classes and other off-air activities

Bright Home (Roshni ro Ghar in Marwari) provides vocational classes for women or young people. In partnership with regional health care providers, health camps provide advice, medical checkup and basic medication.

Media training provides women an additional route for building skills, self confidence, and for participating more widely in community life and wider society.

Women and young people from the community use media skills to create audio content that promotes social developments, good health and hygiene, and supports livelihood development. Content is aired via speakerbox and WhatsApp, with a view to providing FM radio content as skills grow.

Background:

Pastor Lazur heard about Roshan Ghar in Sargodha from a WhatsApp group in June 2023 and invited Amplifying Voices Pakistan to help set up a Bright Home project a Marwari village near Rahim Yar Khan, on the the edge of the Cholistan desert.

Bright Home projects aim to build foundations for trust, by creating livelihood opportunities and addressing health concerns before engaging in media.

During earlier projects in we found that media activities can be sensitive. Local power-brokers are suspicious when minority figures suddenly gain prominence. Working primarily with minority Marwari people in a multi-ethnic region, Roshni-ro-Ghar activities encourage participation from across the Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities.

Our Role:

Provide support to Amplifying Voices Pakistan for project planning, including funding proposals and design of participatory community-based research and learning.

Read more about Amplifying Voices Pakistan.

Bright Home – Sargodha

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:24:12 +0000

Roshan Ghar (Bright Home)

Our partner, Amplifying Voices Pakistan, is working with community activists in Sargodha district in Punjab province, to create new opportunies for women and young people. New Hope is one of the Bright Home group of projects, integrating community-centred media with vocational skills classes and other off-air activities

Bright Home (Roshan Ghar in Urdu) provides vocational classes for women or young people. In partnership with regional health care providers, health camps provide advice, medical checkup and basic medication.

Some class participants go on to do Media training as an additional route for building skills, self confidence, and for participating more widely in community life and wider society.

Women and young people from the community use media skills to create audio content that promotes social developments, good health and hygiene, and supports livelihood development. Content is aired via speakerbox and WhatsApp. As of 2023, some Roshan Ghar content is also broadcast from a local FM radio station.

Background:

When first invited to Sargodha district to implement a community-centred media project, Amplifying Voices Pakistans started off by listening. They heard women's aspirations for improved education opportunities for women and girls, opportunities for women to use their skills to earn a living, better health services, and better access to clean water and hygiene facilities.

Around this time, the first Bright Home pilot in Nowshera was proving an effective way to engage women and young girls in improving their own future, while engaging sensitively with local power brokers. Media activities are important for building local self-confidence and awareness, but local power-brokers want to see evidence that local concerns and goals are truly respected before they offer their buy-in. Bright Home projects start by creating livelihood opportunities and addressing health concerns to help create foundations for trust.

Our Role:

Provide support to Amplifying Voices Pakistan for project planning, including funding proposals and design of participatory community-based research and learning.

Read about Amplifying Voices Pakistan on their Facebook page.

Bright Home – Nowshera

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:45:47 +0000

Rokhane-e-Kore (Bright Home)

Our partner, Amplifying Voices Pakistan, is working with local women in Nowshera district, Khyber Pakhtunkwa, to create new opportunies for women and young people. Light of the Dawn (Noor-e-Saher) is one of the Bright Home group of projects, integrating community-centred media with vocational skills classes and other off-air activities.

Bright Home (Rokhan-e-Kore in Pashtu) provides vocational classes for women or young people. In partnership with regional health care providers, health camps provide advice, medical checkup and basic medication.

Some class participants go on to do Media training as an additional route for building skills, self confidence, and for participating more widely in community life and wider society.

Women and young people from the community use media skills to create audio content that promotes social developments, good health and hygiene, and supports livelihood development. Content is aired via speakerbox and WhatsApp. As of 2023, some Rokan-e-kore content is also broadcast from a local FM radio station.

Background:

During community listening in Nowshera district we heard women's aspirations for improved education opportunities for women and girls, opportunities for women to use their skills to earn a living, better health services, and better access to clean water and hygiene facilities.

During earlier projects in Nowshera we found that some activities are more sensitive than others. For example, although media activities are important for building local self-confidence and awareness, local power-brokers want to see evidence that local concerns and goals are truly respected before they offer their buy-in. Bright Home projects start by creating livelihood opportunities and addressing health concerns to help create foundations for trust.

Our Role:

Provide support to Amplifying Voices Pakistan for project planning, including funding proposals and design of participatory community-based research and learning.

Visit the Amplifying Voices Pakistan Facebook page.

Outcome stories:

Amplifying with care

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Things no-one talks about

Bright Home (or Rokhan-e-Kore in Pashtu) helps women to create new opportunities for themselves and their families in ...

Listen – then listen again

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Read all Outcome Stories from Rokhan-e-kore, Nowshera

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Amplifying Voices in Disaster

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:25:36 +0000

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Goal

That community voices play a central role in humanitarian responses, and communities recover quickly from disaster, growing in confidence, capacity, and resilience as they do so.

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Purpose

So that communities engage in humanitarian responses with effective communication platforms for:

Talking and listening to each other, re-building local confidence and planning local action in response to the disaster.
Engaging with humanitarian service providers in a way that puts community voices at the centre of response communication and activity planning.
Finding ways to cope together, to restore aspects of normality, and to highlight local strengths, good news stories or achievements.

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Response

Community service advice and information

Supporting international humanitarian services and local service providers to create relevant, timely and actionable Community Service information and advice in partnership with community members, Eg:

Where to get relief: food, medical supplies/ treatment, shelter
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) - information and education on how and where to access water, how to make it safe,
How to access family re-uniting services
Where are the field hospitals, and what conditions can they treat?
Advice for preventing Disease/ injury (especially in hazardous environment of disaster aftermath)
Information on how to access and use protective equipment.

Promote community dialogue

Supporting international responders, local service providers and community members to engage in community dialogue to address the issues of most concern locally. Eg:

Farming and environmental development – community dialogue around benefits of and concerns about new methods that promote environmental resilience.
WASH: Community dialogue around the importance of practices that promote importance of clean water, hygiene and sanitation.
Containment of epidemic – community dialogue around healthy preventative practices and cultural reluctance/ logistical constraints.
Vaccination – community dialogue to address fears and build social acceptance of vaccination
GBV/ Child protection – drama and advocacy to challenge attitudes, raise awareness and inform about helplines or other
Peacebuilding – supporting/ exploring/ celebrating local initiatives to build community, reduce tension and create sustainable livelihoods.
Trauma healing – support partnership with culturally aware experts, who work alongside local voices to help people recognize and address trauma.

Tackle misinformation

Feedback

Promote psycho-social recovery

Responding with equipment

Providing/ Advising on communications equipment:

Temporary radio station and radio distribution
Recording equipment and Speakerbox/SD Card distribution

Our focus is on equipping communities to create and distribute content locally. If required we will providing temporary broadcasting equipment, or additional listening devices to remote or vulnerable households so that more people can engage, sooner.

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Preparation

Community Partnerships

Radio partnerships

Humanitarian Network Partnerships

We believe in the power of collaboration and aim to work in coordination with other humanitarian actors

We will establish good relationships with wider humanitarian networks prior to disaster, so that our partners are known and included during disaster response coordination and implementation.
We will work with internnatioal partners to promote community-centred communication approaches as a preferred option to top-down, message-centred approaches.

Participatory workshops

Response options

Option 1: Mentor: Pre-trained local teams deploy in their own locality to support local partner radio station to create/ present community-centred media (CCM) content slots.
Option 2: Convene and mentor: Pre-trained local teams deploy to another locality to support the radio station and influence content policy with CCM principles.
Option 3: Equip, train and mentor: International team deploys at invitation of local community, in partnership with international community, to support and train a local radio station.

Depending on damage to the existing equipment and the local legislation, each of the above options could be adapted to provide a temporary radio antenna/studio/station using AViD portable studio/Tx equipment.

Prepared with equipment

Our focus is on supporting communities to create content. However, in some cases, ability to set up a temporary broadcasting studio, or to distribute additional listening devices will be needed to enable the most remote or vulnerable community members to engage with a community-centred media project.

Temporary antenna installation
Temporary/ field studio & power source (solar/ battery)
Temporary transmitter (& solar power/ battery power source)
Speakerboxes and charging stations
Rechargeable radios/ wind-up radios and charging stations (or distribution partnerships)

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Experience

Backpack radio for Gaza

March 20, 2025

In a matter of weeks from now, we hope to see a much-needed humanitarian radio station going on ...

September 20, 2022

Since June, Pakistan has been devastated by record monsoon rains causing the worst flooding in decades. The provinces ...

October 2, 2020

COVID19 has highlighted the vital role of communication for disseminating health and hygiene advice in a crisis, and ...

March 30, 2020

Countries around the world are struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic. HCR and our partners are continuing to reach ...

March 30, 2020

One of my earliest experiences in community centred media took me to Banda Aceh a number of years ...

March 13, 2020

In a health crisis, fear can spread faster than a virus, and with that, the potential for hatred ...

April 27, 2019

Empowering Yesterday Cyclone Kenneth made landfall near Pemba in Mozambique, the second cyclone to hit Mozambique this season. ...

February 22, 2017

Following the Asia Tsunami and numerous earthquakes in Pakistan, radio broadcasters have come to see the need for ...

March 20, 2015

Tropical Cyclone Olwyn has decimated many banana plantations in Carnarvon, WA (Picture: ABC News, Doriana Mangili) Last Friday ...

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Naway Saher – Charsadda

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 23:46:40 +0000

In a village near Charsadda, in north west Pakistan, Amplifying Voices Pakistan has trained community volunteers to produce community-centred radio programmes. The programmes tackle issues raised by community members, and encourage everybody to be involved in dialogue. Naway Saher is breaking down barriers between community groups that were traditionally separated by cultural and religious factors. This project, which started in response to floods in 2010, combines on-air and off-air activities to promote health, dialogue and inclusion.

What: Naway Saher, Pashto for ‘New Dawn’ is a Community services group working as CBO for resolving issues and community matters along with having youth mobilizing programme. Naway Saher activities include:

FM radio programme which is run by community, produced by the community.
New production team of community volunteers (men and women) trained to produce content for FM radio programmes.
Youth sport programme started daily in the evening from October 2018.
Health service clinic for poor patients with free medicine donated by friends, and mobile motorbike service.
Community health slips with minimum charges for medicine and check up.
Clean water well for communities

Outcomes: Community members are gathering together to listen to radio

Community members are discussing health hygiene issues they hear on the radio and making changes to practice.

Community members are motivated to be included in creating programming that addresses local issues.

Women and young girls are participating in community health education and in radio production.

Our Role: Facilitation, project design, consultancy, training of community members.

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- Pakistan - Amplifying Voices

Bright Home – Cholistan

Roshni-Ro-Ghar (Bright Home)

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Bright Home – Sargodha

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Bright Home – Nowshera

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Amplifying Voices in Disaster

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Goal

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Purpose

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Response

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Preparation

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Experience

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Naway Saher – Charsadda