OUR WORK
Media & Publications
With over fifteen years’ experience in publishing and content development, Twaweza Communications continues to create, produce and publish content that informs, educates, and entertains.
With over fifteen years’ experience in publishing and content development, Twaweza Communications continues to create, produce and publish content that informs, educates, and entertains.
Using strategic communication for social change we seek to inspire the individual and communities to take active part in the transformation of society.
Twaweza Communications is part of the Tuvuke Initiative a consortium formed to engage in a collective campaign to ensure that peace prevailed before, during and after the 2013 General Elections in Kenya and that youth and women participated throughout the election process. Since then the Initiative has continued to work during and outside election periods, advocating for peace, inclusion of women and youth in county and national leadership, land rights among others.
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Twaweza Communications, with support from HIVOS East Africa, has produced a mini-series drama on leadership and integrity that will challenge viewers to expect and demand integrity from leaders in different spheres of life. The series explores how the protagonist Bob responds to the moral dilemmas of life and what choices they eventually make to achieve their goal.
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In 2012, The Ford Foundation recognized Twaweza Communications as a Champion of Democracy due to the institution’s work in the advancement of democracy and equality in Kenya. Following the award, Twaweza Communications embarked on a project to develop an online English-Kiswahili Dictionary of Legal terms in a bid to increase access to justice in Kenya through language. We believe that the project will increase access to justice and benefit Kenya’s judicial and governance process by improving communication between judicial officers and litigants. It is also a contribution to Kiswahili legal lexicon as well as the development and presence of African languages on the internet.
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Twaweza communications is part of the Creative Economy Working Group which brings together stakeholders in the creative sector to advocate for policy and legal framework that is conducive to the growth of the creative industry in Kenya. The Working Group has recently made submissions to Parliament on the Copyright Amendment Bill 2017 and the Computer and Cybercrimes Bill 2017.
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The Imara Cultural and Creative Industries Roundtables are a partnership between the Goethe Institute and Twaweza Communications. The round tables, held throughout 2019, brought together stakeholders in the creative and cultural industry to define problem areas and ideate together on sustainable, industry-driven policies.
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In the Jukumu Project Twaweza undertook a process documentation of the work and experience of grantees of the Wajibu Wetu Program being run by Forum CIV.We collected data, analysed it and disseminated the report at the Artivism Week in October 2021 in Nairobi. As part of the learning component of the project, Twaweza Communications held four Dialogue Forums aimed at advocating for the use of creative and innovative strategies for human rights, democracy and gender equality. We held the forums online in a series known as the Linkages for Learning, and reached an average of twenty participants in each convening. The sessions involved presentations incorporating interaction with participants for experience sharing, and the Question-and-Answer session where participants gave comments or raised questions.
The additional project activities, which emanated from the research dissemination and dialogue meetings, include the design and development of a popular version of the documentation report; an arts culture and media advocacy guide; the production of a documentary capturing projects under the Wajibu Wetu Program; and upgrading of the Twaweza Studio to support quality production and editing of the documentary on Wajibu Wetu Program projects.
The Documentation Report was finalized in the last phase of the project and launched during the Artivism Week held between 12 th and 14 th October 2021. The event was attended Wajibu Wetu project partners, academia, creative sector practitioners, community youth groups and civil society organizations among others.
Find out moreTwaweza Communications implemented the Mitigating COVID-19 Effects in Nairobi: Working through Digital Platforms Project to support the creative sector as it adapted to COVID-19 in Kenya. The project incorporated organizational capavity development and stakeholder including members of the Creative Economy Working Group to adapt to working in the digital space. The capacity development focused on taxation, business planning and intellectual property rights. We engaged experts on taxation, intellectual property rights and business planning to faciltate the capacity development forums.
Find out moreThe Project took place between September 2021 and February 2022 and incorporated Capacity Building of staff and creative sector in Nairobi on the Digital Service Tax & other taxation issues, intellectual property rights and business planning. Twaweza also produced five short format avocacy videos to mitigate against sexual and gender-based violence for organizations and community groups working in the area of gender equality. The videos capture issues on including community responsibility, legal framework on SGBV in Kenya, understanding SGBV, Reporting SGBV, mental health, culture and SGBV among others.
The Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth Symposium was held in Nairobi on 27th and 28th February 2020 at the National Museum of Kenya under the theme, “Culture Grows: Between Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” .
The event was a gathering of culture and creative sector stakeholders from Kenya and across the world. It was convened by Twaweza Communications in partnership with the British Council as part of the British Council's programme “Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth” – a pilot programme in Kenya, Vietnam and Colombia.
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Twaweza Communications in partnership with British Council convened the 2022 Symposium the second edition of the Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth Symposium. The Symposium was a two-day hybrid event featuring in-person conversations at the Nairobi National Museum, keynote speeches, panel discussions as well as musical performances which were livestreamed online. It brought together over a hundred cultural practitioners, tech leaders, academics, and policymakers into conversations on the restitution of cultural heritage in Africa, community engagement strategies in inclusive cultural heritage, indigenous knowledge and climate change, food security, and the digitization of cultural heritage. The Symposium built on the legacy of the first edition in 2020 and bring together interconnected conversations on decolonisation while seeking to reclaim, reframe and reposition African narratives and knowledge on language, clothing, and the built environment.
Find out moreParticipants at two-day Symposium recommended that Cultural Heritage be integrated in national development; Education curricula be reviewed to incorporate cultural heritage and the achievements of communities before, during and after the colonial encounters; Policies and frameworks for restitution of cultural heritage are developed; Enhanced use of technology in cultural heritage and Democratization of cultural heritage institutions.
Working with Google,The National Cohesion & Integration Commission, Twaweza Communications sought to inspire a culture of inclusivity and respect for diversity through working with secondary schools in the Hangout Bridges Project. The Hangout Bridges Project combines technology and strategic communication for positive social impact. To promote cross-cultural understanding, this project connects young people from different cultures and helps them realize their prejudices and overcome them to engage respectfully and make new friends..
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Twaweza Communications media monitoring unit undertakes monitoring of print and electronic media. Past clients include Heinrich Boll Foundation, Kenya Women Holding, Elimu Yetu Coalition among others.
