Malaria Consortium Field Communications Toolkit

Published by the Malaria Consortium, this Communications Toolkit is intended to provide practical guidance and support to staff and partners who are looking to increase their communications capacity. It has been developed as a resource for project staff who work at field-level, to help them communicate responsibly, creatively, and effectively about their work.

According to the publishers, this toolkit will help field-level staff to illustrate the successful impact of projects with both donors and partners. The toolkit shows how real life stories and pictures can be used in public information posters and leaflets, provide valuable examples to use in national workshops, and support a project’s advocacy activities. While field and project staff are likely already documenting progress, this handbook is designed to provide field and project staff with the tools they need to add an extra dimension to that documentation by giving some simple ideas and techniques for gathering interesting stories, photographs, and interviews.

The toolkit includes of the following sections:

• Section one: Information gathering
• Section two: Photography
• Section three: Producing your case studies
• Section four: Securing consent
• Section five: Field trip toolkit