SFCG DRC Toolbox

An audience member joins actors during a participatory theater performance in Uvira.

1. Radio
   SFCG produces 14 radio programs each week, several of which are in two or more Congolese languages.



2. Telvision
   SFCG produced spots during the 2006 elections campaign, and currently broadcasts DRC's first reality TV show.


3. Common Ground Media trainings
   SFCG does in-house trainings for SFCG's 100 partner radio stations in all provinces of the DRC. These trainings reinforce journalists' professional skills and apply them with the Common Ground approach: accuracy, impartiality and responsibility.
   
   
4. Comic Books
   SFCG produces comic books in Congolese languages and French to reinforce the knowledge, attitude and behavior change communicated in its radio programs. Previous comic books have addressed voting and elections, the demobilization process and military-civilian relations.


5. Participatory Theatre
   Actors trained in conflict analysis listen to community concerns and conflicts and create scenarios that reflect real life conflicts. During the performance, members of the audience are invited to "replace" the actors to play out the scenario in ways that more constructively address the conflicts. SFCG's participatory theatre work was awarded the Ashoka-Changemakers 2006 award for "Innovative on-the-ground strategies for conflict transformation."


6. Mobile Cinema
   SFCG uses large screen mobile cinema to inform Congolese and raise discussion around sexual violence in South Kivu. Facilitators are trained in Common Ground approaches and SFCG engages in more intensive follow-up with target communities, including the military.
   
7. Training
   SFCG conducts conflict transformation training for specific groups, such as military, civil society, youth groups, and vulnerable communities. These modules, which include rumor management, aim to equip targeted groups with the basics of conflict transformation.


8. Joint Activities
   SFCG uses engaging joint activities, such as a goat credit scheme, to enable people to find common interests in working together. These activities may involve sports, community work, or income-generation, and target groups that normally see each other as adversaries.


9. Arts and Culture
   Music, drumming and theatre festivals are some of the ways in which SFCG uses arts and culture to bring divided groups together and communicate information.


10. Sports

Football and other sporting activities are organized by SFCG, bringing together military and civilians, residents and returnees and people of different ethnic and tribal groups, as a fun and interactive bridge divides.