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:

  • supporting partners to understand their communities better,

  • equipping partners and community members to use media to build local capacity for resilience and change.

What is a speakerbox?

By Amplifying Voices | July 24, 2024
Sam provides speakerbox to Adivasi family

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 around 10 people.

Footsteps to shared learning

By Johnny Fisher | May 27, 2022
Footsteps shared learning magazine

Tearfund invited Amplifying Voices to share some of our learning in the May 2022 edition of Footsteps, a shared learning magazine with a broad readership among community development practitioners.

The importance of giving time

By Dane Waters (HCR Aus) | May 11, 2022
Importance of time

Dane Waters reflects on a reminder that giving time is key to building relationships which in turn are foundational to community-centred media and to community development in general.

“…you’re still on mute!…”

By Johnny Fisher | September 16, 2020

Johnny Fisher “… you’re still on mute! …” If I could have a pound for every time I hear that phrase, I could probably fund our projects many times over! Love them or hate them, free Zoom webinars quickly established themselves in March this year as a means for organisations to contribute in the prevailing…

Sustainable Development Goals

By Celeste Larkins (HCR Aus) | October 1, 2019

It’s been over four years since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by leaders around the world. Different to the Millennium Development Goals, the 17 SDGs reflect that EVERYONE has a role to play in the sustainable development of our future. We know community media is an essential component towards achieving the SDGs, which…

It’s a Ting Thing

By Ross James | March 11, 2016
Ting chinese character

The HCR network uses the Chinese pictogram “ting” (to listen) to help explain what we call community-centred media (CCM).