Community safety toolkit
Cape Town:
Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF); Gun Free South Africa (GFSA)
(2018), 234 pp.
"This guide will support you in creating exciting and impactful content for the airwaves and community outreach activities around gun violence and community safety. Children’s Radio Foundation has partnered with Gun Free South Africa (GFSA) to build the capacity of youth to influence and shape behaviour and attitudes towards gun violence and community safety. They also aim to influence relevant policies, legislation and programming to reduce gun violence through innovative community-based interventions. GFSA is a national non-governmental organisation (NGO) committed to reducing gun violence in South Africa with more than two decades of experience in public policy advocacy, public education, awareness raising and community mobilisation. We have compiled this guide based on our experience and learning in our youth radio projects across South Africa and the African continent. Young people, trained as youth reporters, record the stories and experiences of their peers and their communities and create radio programmes and public events so that we all can learn, connect and make better choices for ourselves. The youth reporters use a guide that helps them understand the topic, choose a focus, research and build a radio show and community outreach." (Introduction)
Contents
1 General introduction to the manual, 3
2 Understanding radio, 6
3 Understanding Outreach, 12
INTRODUCTION, 14
Why have outreaches? -- What makes an outreach work?
VISION, 19
Know your audience -- Audience brainstorm -- Intergenerational dialogues -- Focus your message -- Focusing an advocacy message
PLANNING, 26
Getting started -- Allocating roles -- Example of a plan
EXECUTION, 30
Building one’s public speaking skills -- Partnering with your audience -- Pace, timing and flow -- Outreach formats -- Tools for preparing and managing an outreach -- Creating a script for outreach -- Record your impact
GUN CONTROL, 46
Fact sheet radio production guide: Gun violence in South Africa, 46
Fact sheet radio production guide: Gender, guns and violence, 55
Laws around the person, 72
Why would anyone have a gun? 79
The history of guns in South Africa, 85
The life cycle of a gun, 91
Gun laws and parliament, 106
Guns, crime and threat, 123
Guns, crime and masculinity, 129
Guns, crime and survivors, 133
The risks of carrying a gun, 139
A gun in the home, 143
Suicide, 155
Intimate femicide (and living with threats in the home), 163
Guns and children as victims, 170
Safer spaces (success stories alternative), 174
Gun free zones, 180
Children and toy guns, 194
Guns and gangs, 200
Guns in schools, 207
How to responsibly cover gun violence survivor stories, 214
Community policing forum, 227
2 Understanding radio, 6
3 Understanding Outreach, 12
INTRODUCTION, 14
Why have outreaches? -- What makes an outreach work?
VISION, 19
Know your audience -- Audience brainstorm -- Intergenerational dialogues -- Focus your message -- Focusing an advocacy message
PLANNING, 26
Getting started -- Allocating roles -- Example of a plan
EXECUTION, 30
Building one’s public speaking skills -- Partnering with your audience -- Pace, timing and flow -- Outreach formats -- Tools for preparing and managing an outreach -- Creating a script for outreach -- Record your impact
GUN CONTROL, 46
Fact sheet radio production guide: Gun violence in South Africa, 46
Fact sheet radio production guide: Gender, guns and violence, 55
Laws around the person, 72
Why would anyone have a gun? 79
The history of guns in South Africa, 85
The life cycle of a gun, 91
Gun laws and parliament, 106
Guns, crime and threat, 123
Guns, crime and masculinity, 129
Guns, crime and survivors, 133
The risks of carrying a gun, 139
A gun in the home, 143
Suicide, 155
Intimate femicide (and living with threats in the home), 163
Guns and children as victims, 170
Safer spaces (success stories alternative), 174
Gun free zones, 180
Children and toy guns, 194
Guns and gangs, 200
Guns in schools, 207
How to responsibly cover gun violence survivor stories, 214
Community policing forum, 227
