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Gareth Benest is a communications and participatory media specialist working with groups and communities around the world. Gareth provides consultancy services for organisations across the international development sector, with particular focus on supporting community-led storytelling. His work aims to increase the visibility of under-represented groups and provide opportunities and platforms for marginalised groups to amplify their own voices.
Gareth has a diverse skillset - including facilitation, video production/post-production, copy-writing/editing and graphic design - and an established track record for programme development, project management, capacity-building and training. He has written three guidebooks, covering various aspects of participatory video practice, based on two decades of work with communities and stakeholders around the world.
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Displaying 1 - 10 of 45Nubian Land: a story of colonialism, discrimination and corruption
Ibrahim has lived on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital city since he was born, 71 years ago. Five generations have lived, loved, studied, worked, and built their homes on this land. He is Kenyan. Proving that to the government and asserting his rights as a citizen, however, has been a life-long struggle.
Production of Course Module on Land Corruption in Africa
Transparency International (TI) is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. Through more than 100 chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, Germany, TI raises awareness of the damaging effects of corruption and works with partners in government, business and civil society to develop and implement effective measures to tackle it.
What is Land Corruption?
For people around the world, land is more than a commodity to be bought and sold, de
Understanding Land Corruption as a Basis for Prevention
From forced eviction to loss of livelihood, social status, savings and even life, land corruption in Africa has serious and far-reaching consequences. Such corruption comes in many forms, and it must be understood – along with the factors that enable it – before it can be tackled.
African Youth Fight Land Corruption
Murder in Metchem: Violence and Land Corruption in Sierra Leone
The actions of a national bank and an influential politician — in alienating a small community from their land — amounts to corruption, says Transparency International Sierra Leone. The fallout includes five community members imprisoned for murder and scores of residents forced to flee their impoverished community.
WANTED: Young Visionaries to Tackle Land Corruption
We are looking for young people with new ideas and fresh perspectives.
If you have a passion for innovation, the ability to devise new solutions to old problems, and a willingness to challenge the established orthodoxy, then we want to hear from you.
Tender: Filmmaker on Women, Land and Corruption in Africa
Transparency International is seeking a filmmaker to produce a short film of approx. 40 minutes length that tells a story about women, land and corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tender: Consultant for Research and Data Analysis (Closing 31/08/18)
Transparency International is seeking a consultant to analyse large sets of data and information generated by its Land and Corruption in Africa Programme, and to review, update, complement and finalise the programme baseline. The data and information are generated through desk-based as well as empirical research (quantitative and qualitative).
Land Corruption impedes reconstruction in Liberia
Liberians displaced by the civil war are gradually returning home, filled with dreams of rebuilding their shattered country. Many have invested their savings in land, upon which they plan to construct new homes and businesses, only to discover that rampant corruption has been allowed to fester within the land administration system.