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WITNESS Request for Proposals for New Campaign Partners

Films for Human Rights Advocacy -  December 2010

 

We have an open Request for Proposals from US-based, Asia-based and Middle East-based human rights organizations interested in partnering with WITNESS to incorporating video advocacy into their work.

 

We look for collaborations involving specific campaign opportunities where video can play a critical role in helping to tip the balance between success and failure, as well as situations where a group is looking to build a long-term capacity to use video effectively.

 

If you are: 

  • A US-based organization interested in partnership opportunities, click here
  • An Asia-based organization interested in partnership opportunities, click here
  • A Middle East-based organization interested in partnership opportunities, click here

About Campaign Partners
At any given time, WITNESS is engaged in intensive relationships with several Campaign Partners working on campaign-specific projects. After receiving an application, we choose a new Campaign Partner carefully based on the strength of its human rights work, the clarity of its advocacy focus, and the ability of video to enhance its campaigns. Once a partnership is formed, WITNESS' primary role is one of facilitator and intermediary, providing equipment and training and brokering the necessary relationships to enable our partners to become more effective advocates for their own causes. We look for collaborations involving specific campaign opportunities where video can play a critical role in helping tip the balance between success and failure.

 

Since our partners often lack even the most basic camera skills, providing equipment alone does little to improve their advocacy efforts.  We also provide hands-on training in camera techniques, strategic planning for incorporating video into advocacy, intensive instruction in video editing, and ongoing feedback to create powerful documentaries.  And we collaborate with our partners to create multi-dimensional campaigns around completed productions that include broadcast and distribution platforms, collaboration with other organizations and networks, targeted screening before audiences with the power to make a difference, and opportunities for individuals to take action.

 

Footage from our partners also enters the WITNESS Media Archive, where it is available upon partner approval as a unique resource of human rights information to the global community.

 

 

 

 

Our current Campaign Partners:

Africa & the Middle East

Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU), Zimbabwe
Violence against women in
Zimbabwe

Sisters Arab Forum (SAF), Yemen
Fighting for gender equality in
Yemen

 

Americas

National Council on Aging (NCOA), USA
In pursuit of justice for
America’s elders

 

U.S. Human Rights Network
Working Collaboratively to Protect Human Rights in the
U.S.

Asia

Chintan, India
Supporting the rights of waste recyclers in
Delhi

LICADHO, Cambodia
Exposing forced evictions through grassroots documentation

Europe & Central Asia

Healthy Options Project Skopje (HOPS), FYR Macedonia
Promoting the rights of sex workers in FYR Macdonia