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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Connecting Climate Justice & Migrant Justice: A Guide to Countering Dangerous Narratives
2023
Available in English
This guide explores how climate-linked migration is often framed in harmful, dehumanizing ways that undermine both climate and migrant justice. It warns against narratives that portray migrants as threats to provoke urgency around climate action, arguing that such messaging reinforces xenophobia and militarized responses. Instead, the guide advocates for justice-based communication that centers human dignity, highlights systemic causes of displacement, and promotes solidarity. It offers practical strategies for advocates to counter fear-based narratives and build a more inclusive, intersectional climate movement.
Course: Narrative Work
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities (SOGI) Campaigns created a free online course on narrative work, with a specific focus on campaigning.
This is a 6-lesson course that will guide you to
- Understand what narratives are
- Identify the narratives that circulate in your context
- Develop communications that impact the narrative context
- Evaluate your narrative strategy
Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources
by Oxfam
2024
Available in English
Together with our partners, we developed a Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources. The resource was woven collectively, honoring the work conducted by powerful movements, groups, and organizations within the feminist collective.
It all started with a question - why do existing influencing strategies not speak to most women, gender non-binary people, and other marginalized or silenced groups? How can we employ feminist principles in the influencing processes? How do we ensure that the influencing process is not a one-off event that is extractive, exhaustive, and harmful to the groups that it intends to serve? How can the development of the influencing strategy and process be done in a way that centers radical healing and care? How can we align our feminist principles into feminist collective action and influencing?
It's more than a feminist influencing resource; this basket is a movement. We invite you to explore with us.
How philanthropy can fund the infrastructure for narrative power
by Mandy van Deven
2024
Available in English, Spanish
The article explores how philanthropy can effectively support the infrastructure for narrative power, emphasizing the need for long-term, generative investments in storytelling and narrative change. It recounts a 2023 gathering in Bogotá of narrative practitioners and funders, highlighting the importance of funding practices that foster deep listening, relationship-building, collective imagination, and coordination across diverse movements. The piece argues that philanthropy must shift its norms to better support experimental, process-oriented approaches and healing-centered engagements, ultimately becoming a more competent and collaborative partner in advancing global justice narratives
How to Measure Narrative Change
by Stanford Social Innovation Review
2025
Available in English
The article outlines a flexible four-part framework to help organisations measure the impact of narrative change on beliefs, behaviours, culture, and institutions. It acknowledges the challenges in tracing the direct effects of storytelling on social change but offers a structured method to connect storytelling efforts with measurable outcomes. The framework is adaptable, allowing organisations to tailor it to their specific goals and contexts, thereby facilitating continuous learning and improvement in narrative-driven initiatives.
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