{"id":3567,"date":"2019-12-27T04:44:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T04:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2019-12-27T04:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T04:44:49","slug":"fghr-publishes-new-learning-paper-on-narrative-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/2019\/12\/27\/fghr-publishes-new-learning-paper-on-narrative-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Communications Revolution in Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Channel grantee partner, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/fghr\/\">Fund for Global Human Rights<\/a>, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justlabs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">JustLabs<\/a>, published a new learning paper on narrative strategies for human rights funders, activists and civil society.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justlabs.org\/be-the-narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Be the Narrative: How Changing the Narrative Could Revolutionize What it Means to Do Human Rights\u00a0<\/a><\/em> is the product of a series of creative workshops that brought together 12 human rights groups from countries\u00a0 &#8220;facing illiberal or authoritarian threats to better understand the populist appeal and develop practical solutions motivated by everyday human values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Working with diverse outside experts from the social sciences, technology, marketing, communications, culture\/arts, and even neuroscience&#8211;the groups produced 12 prototypes for bold human rights work that speaks directly to people. These ideas range from a truck in Venezuela that delivers public goods like food and free wi-fi while also providing legal advice, to a social media competition in Hungary that aims to counter populist rhetoric by crowdsourcing the creation of a new, positive word for \u201cactivist\u201d\u2014literally changing the narrative according to the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The learning paper highlights several ways funders must adapt or fundamentally shift the way they support human rights through a narrative strategy:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>We need to see more funding for experiments that value community-building as a way to shift popular narratives. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Funders must back groups that engage in managed risk-taking, allowing for unpredictable outcomes and anticipating possible backlash. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>We need to level-up the huge imbalance in funding for narrative work in the US and Europe versus the rest of the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Comprehensive narrative-building requires serious investment in grantees\u2019 skills, capacity, knowledge and the infrastructure around them. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel grantee partner, the Fund for Global Human Rights, in collaboration with JustLabs, published a new learning paper<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54,122,135],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-fghr","tag-global","tag-swfm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}