CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

IREADY BURUNDI PROJECT DOCUMENTATION (June 2019) 

The Brief

Frontline AIDS is a global movement igniting innovation that breaks through social political and legal barriers that stand in a way of a future free from AIDS. 

 READY is a movement of youth-led ad youth-serving organisations working with and for adolescents and young people living with and affected by HIV. 

iREADY is a project funded by the SPIDER Centre which promotes young people’s access to information on SRHR through ICT tools in Burundi and Mozambique. 

 During the final stages of the ready Burundi project. Frontline AIDS commissioned SHOW UP Communications to document the READY project in Burundi and develop a couple of modules on how to develop podcasts. 

 Primary audience CBOs particularly those led or working with young people with a mission related to SRHR. 

 Execution  

 We worked closely with the iREADY team at Frontline AIDS and the RNJ+ team based in Burundi to gather key learnings from the project. This was mainly via Skype calls in English, Swahili and French. The project took 30 days and a further 15 days to develop the modules. 

 Results  

Case Study documenting the iREADY Project in Burundi published in French and English 

1. Using  produce podcasts for SRHR  
   1. USING PODCASTS TO DELIVER YOUTH-FRIENDLY INFORMATION ABOUT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS IN BURUNDI  
   2. UTILISER LES PODCASTS POUR DIFFUSER DES INFORMATIONS ADAPTÉES AUX JEUNES SUR LA SANTE ET LES DROITS EN MATIÈRE DE SEXUALITÉ ET DE REPRODUCTION EN BURUNDI (French translation)
2. Training manual on how to produce podcasts for SRHR 
   1. HOW TO PRODUCE PODCASTS ABOUT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS
   2. CRÉER DES PODCASTS SURLA SANTÉ ET LES DROITS ENMATIÈRE DE SEXUALITÉ ET DEREPRODUCTION (French translation)

Content Development Week During the 2019 Africa Utility Week 

The Brief

The African Utility Week is the leading conference and trade exhibition for African power, energy and water professionals. The annual conference takes place in Cape Town South Africa.  

The 2019 event featured the addition of POWERGEN Africa, adding an expanded focus on Generation (Including renewables, off-grid, fossil fuels and nuclear) while still concentrating on transmission and distribution (including metering), new technologies (including storage, mini grids, micro grids, IOT and ICT systems) and of course water. 

 In 2018, Siemens launched an end-to-end distributed energy system as a solution to tackle Africa’s energy transition at its headquarters in Midrand South Africa. 

Execution

Show UP Communications was commissioned to provide content development services for the August issue of the August edition of African Renewal magazine specifically focussing on the highlights from the conference. 

Results  

• 1000 words article titled ‘Could distributed energy systems be the answer to blackouts in Africa’ published in the August edition of the Africa Review Magazine as a double spread  
• Photography of the conference session published on the Africa Review Website and Magazine