Explore selected resources covering diverse aspects of narrative work and find practical tools speaking to your specific narrative interests and needs.
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Mapping the Currents: A Manual for Community-Centered Cinema
by Jen Tarnate, Aghniadi, Patrick F. Campos, and Karmela Indoyon
2025
Mapping the Currents: A Manual for Community‑Centered Cinema draws on the Cinemata Currents 2025 film festival and hybrid screenings to share lessons on using film as a tool for fostering civic engagement. The guide explores community‑centred curation, collective screenings, and facilitated dialogue, offering case studies, reflections, and practical tools to support locally grounded film programmes and narrative practice across diverse contexts.
Measuring Narrative Change: Understanding Progress and Navigating Complexity
by ORS Impact
2021
Available in English
Better understanding and measuring progress is an important part of strengthening narrative change strategies. This brief offers insights into some of the questions facing practitioners, funders, and others interested in measuring this kind of work: How do you lay the foundations for successful measurement? What short- and longer-term signals can you look for to indicate that things are moving in the right direction? And how can you understand the impact of narrative change efforts when they’re happening in complex, dynamic environments?
Narrative Spices: An Invitational Guide for Flavorful Human Rights
by The Fund for Global Human Rights & Just Labs
2022
Available in English and French
The guide is an invitation to self-refection and creative practice for human rights advoca-tes who are interested in narrative change.
Safe and Free: A messaging guide for communicators fighting violence against women
by Civil Liberties Union for Europe e.V
2025
Available in English
Liberties has created a messaging guide to help communicators avoid the common pitfalls when talking about fighting violence against women and how they should build a persuasive narrative instead.
The guide:
- Highlights the most common messaging mistakes you might be making when talking to a public audience,
- Explains why these bad habits don't work or even backfire
- Tells you how to build a narrative that builds public support for a violence-free life for women, including how to respond to gendered disinformation and improve their understanding of target audiences
- Provides sample messaging that you can adapt to your own campaigns.
Telling the story of civil society – A toolkit
by Telling the story of civil society.
2025
Available in English, Spanish
This resource provides a structured, three-step approach – Message, Audience, Story – to develop strategic and values-driven communication. It includes practical worksheets, case studies, and guidance on reaching key audiences while fostering positive narratives. By implementing these techniques, civil society organisations can enhance their public image, mobilise support, and safeguard civic space.
The toolkit also offers insights on collaboration, allowing organisations to amplify their impact collectively. Ultimately, it empowers civic actors to take control of their stories and shape public discourse in a way that strengthens civil society.
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