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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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EU must stop supporting the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
Murky land deals: citizens pay the highest price
More than 20 years into its democracy, South Africa is still a long way from returning all 24.5 million hectares of land back to the communities who were dispossessed of it during apartheid.
An analysis of the impact of land-related corruption on women: case studies from Ghana and Zimbabwe
Corruption on the land: giving a voice to women, demanding change
By Mary Jane Ncube, Farai Shone Mutondoro and Manase Chiweshe
In Zimbabwe land is power. And when this power is abused to score political points or amass wealth illegally, the most vulnerable citizens are the hardest hit. In the traditionally patriarchal communities of Zimbabwe, these citizens are most often women.