Work

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Well Made Strategy grew alongside Well Told Story and Shujaaz Inc, the Emmy award winning pioneers of behaviour change communications in East Africa. We apply lessons learned across the group with individual partners seeking to achieve social justice change. Like Shujaaz, we put the Player First, making sure that all we do benefits – and is guided by – the people with whom we are working. We use an approach built upon Appreciative Inquiry that, rather than concentrating on what’s wrong, identifies organisations’ core strengths and builds upon them – Support not SWOT.

Over the past fifteen years we have developed a team of communications specialists with expertise in pedagogy, policy and persuasion. We have experience of journalism, advertising, diplomacy and learning; we have worked on sexual and reproductive health rights, financial inclusion, the environment and education. But above all, we have used strategic communications to help pioneers in those fields and the donors who fund them to achieve the impact they desire.

Learn how Well Made Strategy can support you to make an impact

Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER)

Case Study

Strategic Communications

Country

Uganda

Sector

Business and Human Rights, Health, Education, Accountability and Transparency

Deliverable

Communications strategy for key programmes: Education, Health, Business and Human Rights and Economic Policy​​

Challenge

To develop an evidence-based communications approach to support ISER in working with partner communities to do advocacy around regulation of private actors

Approach

Outcome

Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER)

Hewlett Foundation

Case Study

Coaching, Advisory & Support

Country

Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya

Sector

Education

Deliverable

To develop and deliver a strategic communications curriculum for 15 Hewlett Foundation grantees, create a communications strategy for each grantee and support implementation

Challenge

To support 15 Hewlett Foundation grantees in communicating more strategically and developing stronger networks

Approach

Outcome

Well Made Strategy greatly improved the work of all the grantees and improved their communications. There is now a cadre of education professionals who do their work much better and more strategically:

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) / Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network (KELIN)

Case Study

Narrative Framing & Storytelling

Country

Kenya

Sector

Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights​

Deliverable

Develop, test and deploy value-based frames and messages

Challenge

To make contraceptive information and services accessible to adolescent girls in Nakuru and Kisumu County

Approach

Outcome

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