Advocacy

In community-centred media we talk about 5 tasks of media – Information, Education, Dialogue, Advocacy and Entertainment. The following stories are examples of community-centred media fulfilling the task of Advocacy.

Umoja Radio Listener

The Mics That Won’t Go Silent in Kivu’s Conflict

By Jon Hargreaves / October 8, 2025

After rebels massacred dozens in a village in North Kivu, Umoja Radio refused to be silent. Instead their broadcasts became the heartbeat of recovery — uniting survivors, leaders, and communities with one message: together we can.

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Meeting IDPs in Garsen

Radio Station Helps a Community Rebuild

By Maureen Buya / September 12, 2025

For years, they had no home. Then, one radio station’s broadcasts gave a forgotten community a voice—and helped them finally find a place to rebuild.

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Women engaging with Vox Radio team

Airwaves Shatter Silence, Spark Action

By Nyambura Wamaitha / May 21, 2025

In Kenya’s Tana River County, voices of women are breaking through silence and stigma to ignite social change.

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Adivasi women filling water pitchers

The Power of Ubuntu

By Jon Hargreaves / March 2, 2023

A remote village in Maharashtra, India, comes together in the spirit of ‘ubuntu’ to resolve a crippling water crisis.

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Adivasi Listeners

“Let me die at home!”

By Jon Hargreaves / October 21, 2022

Being aware of your rights is irrelevant if you don’t have the power to exercise them. This is often the case for marginalised groups, and this is certainly the experience of an Adivasi lady called Mirabai…

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Interview with addition district commissioner

Amplifying Voices in the Pakistan floods

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / September 20, 2022

Amplifying Voices Pakistan responded to the Pakistan floods by supporting communities in KPK near Charsadda and near Nowshera. This was our first deployment of an Amplifying Voices in Disaster (AViD) response.

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Footsteps shared learning magazine

Footsteps to shared learning

By Johnny Fisher / May 27, 2022

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.

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new borehole

Radio programme that dug a new borehole

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / April 14, 2022

When radio programmes highlighted an isolated community’s struggles to access fresh water, a local donor stepped in, wanting to assist as part of her Ramadan preparations, so that the community could to drill a new borehole.

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Barnabas talking about Sambara

Sambara – A Source of Joy?

By Johnny Fisher / September 23, 2021

Barnabas Samuel is Programmes Manager for Community Development Centre in Uganda, our partner leading the Soot Semee project. Among his many talents, Barnabas is also a singer/ songwriter and he…

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My voice has cleared the air

By Jon Hargreaves / August 23, 2021

For many years Sangeetha has suffered from coughing and shortness of breath, like many of her friends in Kahandol village in central Maharashtra. During a medical camp last year, Doctor…

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