Our Experience

Amplifying Voices is a learning organisation. We plan and implement our work using proven theory and research. As we gain new insights from our work we will share them here. We hope these will help you in your own work, and your understanding of communities.

Sustainable Community Development

Amplifying Voices works towards sustainable outcomes in health, peace-building and disaster resilience. We promote local ownership of development objectives and inclusion of marginalised groups, using participatory media tools.

Equipping Partners

Amplifying Voices works in partnership with health service providers, local media, and community development organisations. In these articles we share learning and reflection from our experiences in:

  • supporting partners to understand their communities better,

  • equipping partners and community members to use media.

Developing Ourselves

We continue to learn and develop ourselves as an organisation, as we reflecting on our history and experiences in cross-cultural community engagement.

Theory and practice

Community-level reality informs our practice and theory - training tips, tools and a list of publications related to the work of Amplifying Voices and the HCR Family ... eg:

What is a speakerbox?

At Amplifying Voices, we use the term "speakerbox" to talk about a digital audio player with a built in speaker, suitable for group listening for ...
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Footsteps to shared learning

Here at Amplifying Voices we see collaboration as an essential element of community-centred media. Collaboration also means sharing our learning, and being able to learn ...
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