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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.
The Culture Hack Method
Available in English
The curriculum is a self-directed learning journey to share the Culture Hack Labs approach, methodology and tools.
The Culture Hack Methodology distills 10 years of research and development by groups of radical thinkers, movement leaders, poets, hackers and artists.
This seven-module educational tool supports narrative practitioners in understanding the ontological shift (a shift in the fundamental ways we perceive, relate to, and engage with the world) needed to disrupt the core assumptions of capitalist modernity and equips them with the tools to transform the critical narrative landscapes of our time.
The Magic Potion of Austerity and Poverty Alleviation: Narratives of political capture and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa
by Oxfam
2021
Available in English, French, Arabic
Dominant narratives promoting economic growth at the expense of state institutions and basic social services have long underpinned a neoliberal model of spiralling debt and austerity in the MENA region. This exacerbates political capture and inequality and takes shape in an environment of media concentration and shrinking civic space. It is important for change movements to understand dominant narratives in order to challenge and shift them. With the right tools, civil society organizations, activists, influencers and alternative media can start changing the myths and beliefs which frame the socio-economic debate and predetermine which policy options are accepted as possible and legitimate, and which are not.
The Narrative Directory
by IRIS
Available in English
The Narrative Directory is a tool for activists, civic innovators, independent storytellers, journalists, researchers and funders to locate one another, exchange knowledge and see the bigger picture of the global impact storytelling and narrative change ecosystem. By sharing resources openly with each other, we’re better able to make connections, seed collaborations and build shared narrative power.
Un cambio narrativo para ampliar la conversación política. Aportes desde el periodismo feminista del Sur
by LATFEM
2024
Available in Spanish
This is a digital book that begins with the question of the contribution that digital activism and political communication can make to recovering a common future. LatFem invites us to consider the context of polarization and misinformation, to delve into the concepts of framing, narratives, and narrative change, and to rewrite our own definitions from the political South. It recounts the experience of the experimental laboratory with feminist journalists; and proposes a guide to rights-based communication from the perspective of narrative change.
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