InsightShare envisions a world where healthy and resilient communities draw upon local knowledge, experience, skills, generational wisdom and intuition to exert influence over the critical issues they face. Insight Share works to amplify unheard voices and bring people together to focus on change. They work with communities around the world to address key issues through Participatory Video. Founded in 1999, the organisation is committed to improving and shaping the use of Participatory Video in all its forms, and building a grassroots practice to sustain its role as a powerful community engagement tool. Amava is working with Insight Share to build the PV community of practice within South Africa.

Starkmacher e.V. (founded in 2006) is a civil society non-profit organisation and accredited stakeholder for youth support and extracurricular youth education in Germany. It is an organisation run by and for people, who carry the promotion and development of young people‘s potential close to their hearts. The main function is to empower primarily young people and disadvantaged children and to enable a positive reaction to lacking orientation, missing values and increasing violence. The main areas of work cover non-formal education, Global learning and youth work in various social and ethnic contexts. Currently, Starkmacher e.V. is running various innovative and inclusive educational projects on a global level in the field of youth entrepreneurship, sustainable development and coffee projects to support small farmers worldwide.

Sustaining the Wild Coast (SWC) has worked with the Amadiba residents of the coastal villages of Eastern Mpondoland, South Africa, since 2008, seeking to support their commitment to protecting their land, livelihoods and culture. The Amadiba are determined to set their own development goals, that are sustainable and earth honouring, rather than be forced to accept imposed projects of mining and highway construction. The name for SWC in isiMpondo is Mazibuy’emasisweni! A simple translation of this name is ‘let us bring back our heritage!’. The struggle of the Amadiba people is emblematic of the struggle of indigenous communities worldwide against the life-destroying impacts of imposed, unsustainable, so-called ‘development’ projects that do not respect the needs of local people or the integrity of Earth’s ecosystems. Indigenous communities living on communally owned land occupy only 20% of the planet and are protecting 80% of the earth’s remaining biodiversity.

Elamanzi is a community development agency that runs courses for communities & organisations and works with NGOs, donors & governmental organisations supporting community driven development. Founder Ninnette Eliasov shares tools and methods in the field of sustainable organisational development and Asset-Based-Community-Development (ABCD).

Ninnette Eliasov is a Social Worker with an Honours degree in Criminology and Masters in Education. She has over 20 years’ experience in community capacity-building working with a broad range of CBO, NGO, Government, and Donor agencies. She is an independent consultant and Associate of Ikhala Trust, facilitating training in Asset Based Citizen driven Development (ABCD) locally and internationally, and Organisational Development accompaniment. She has also produced various publications and educational materials including toolkits for development practitioners. She is passionate about youth work, consciousness-building, learning about life, and our purpose together.

The Muizenberg Community Kitchen exists to provide nutritious, affordable, plant-based meals to the community. They nurture the kitchen to be a place of diverse learning, sharing and growth. They collaborate with the Muizenberg Community Garden and local suppliers of ingredients to support local economy.

Ingcungcu Sunbird Restoration is a non-profit company based in Cape Town which aims to reconnect youth and communities to nature by planting fynbos stepping-stone gardens – providing ‘filling stations’ for sunbirds and learning spaces for people. Their vision is to create a nectar-rich Sunbird Stepping-Stone Corridor across the urbanized Cape Flats, linking Muizenberg Mountain with the Boland Mountains above Stellenbosch.

By facilitating hands-on learning experiences in nature that engage schools and communities in active fynbos rehabilitation, Ingcungcu is reconnecting fragments of critically endangered habitat, supporting the migration and protection of urban pollinators, and inspiring a new generation of biodiversity leaders.

The Way Between Collective is a collective of individuals who pool their skills and resources to offer creative services to organisations.Their main outlook is to communicate messages that are socially and environmentally regenerative. They share a common vision of a just world, and wish to contribute their skill sets to creating the changes required. They especially love to explore the spaces between the ending of one story and the beginning of another.

The Commons is a collaborative and experimental space which seeks to build a socially and culturally inclusive platform for the arts in and around Muizenberg, Cape Town. It is grounded by a desire to work against normative processes of gentrification and to develop new modes of collaboration in the city. The space as a node through which to support artists, curators, musicians, and other creatives, and to experiment collectively in the social.

Elos Institute is a Brazilian non-profit organization that has developed a participatory and Creative Commons approach that encourages people to become engaged citizens on the transformation of their own territories. The Institute trains global youth offering an innovative and practical experience, so they can act to transform complex contexts. These actions contribute to strengthen bounds through belonging, potential and protagonism, instead of feeding the assistentialist model of mainstream social impact work. On the last 20 years, over 4000 people, 1000 communities in 51 countries have experienced promoting social change in an inclusive way through their short courses and their main training, GSA (Warriors Without Weapons).