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Youth Videograhy Training
A creative journey where young storytellers
learn to capture the heart of their communities
on video

Why This Matters

  • Young people are powerful storytellers in their communities.
  • Rural youth face barriers to participation in national narratives.
  • Video is a highly effective tool for advocacy, learning, and engagement.
  • Equip youth to document and share authentic stories that matter, from agribusiness to life lessons.

Impactful content created by youth for youth

Proportion Global trains and coaches youth videographers to professionally capture stories from within partner’s programs ,  using their own smartphones. 

These young storytellers document progress, share community insights, and amplify peer voices through authentic, high-quality videos. 

For our partners, this offers richer donor reporting, stronger community engagement, and impactful content created by youth, for youth, as part of youth-centred interventions.

From phone to videos

We have a proven 7-module curriculum delivered by award-winning young filmmakers.

Training is hands-on and naturally transits into coaching on video production for a project.

Youth recruitment process:

we select the most talented youth who already have a smartphone.

1. Articulate Call

We customise our ‘call for youth videographers’ template to align with UNICEF’s scope. 

We select online channels and identify pre-existing youth groups.

We distribute the call through pre-existing groups and targeted ad campaigns.

Applicants need to submit a video application as per call, via an online application form.

Applicants need to have a smartphone with certain specs.

We assess applications and select the most talented youth for the upcoming cohorts for training and coaching.

Cohort: 8-12 pax

Each trainee will create an account on the social learning platform and each cohort will have an onboarding call to meet instructors and peers.

Creative journey: From Scrolling to Rolling

Meet the award-winning team

Kevin Ochieng Onyango

is a contemporary photographer whose path from sketch artist to visual storyteller is rooted in his upbringing and experiences. In 2021, he won the Climate Action category of the Environmental Photographer of the Year competition for his photograph "The Last Breath," which was recognized at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).

Iddah Akinyi

is a Nairobi-based documentary photographer and filmmaker who blends her background in Communication and Journalism with a passion for visual storytelling and art advocacy. She uses her craft to amplify overlooked stories and empower communities, training with One of Us, Framing Your Voices, and Amref’s Power to Youth program.

Tracy Lihanda

is a Nairobi-based designer, project manager, and copywriter. She led the Power to Youth videography training program across Kenya, Uganda and Ghana, equipping youth with storytelling skills. Her work combines creative communication and strong project delivery to empower communities and amplify youth voices.

Sample outputs: trailer videos of youth-led innovations on FGM, SRH and GBV.interventions.

The Power to Youth program, led by Amref Health Africa, runs in Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Senegal, Uganda, and Indonesia. Proportion Global delivered HCD training, coaching, and design sprints that enabled youth to co-create and pilot innovative solutions to FGM, SRH, and GBV.

Proportion trained local youth videographers to document the innovation journey, capturing community insights, design processes, and outcomes. Their visual storytelling amplified youth voices and showcased the program’s impact in diverse local contexts.

Trailer from Uganda

Trailer from Ghana

Trailer from Kenya

What do youth videographers say?

“It was amazing to see how my work could inspire change in the communities we were engaged in.”

— Samson Smith.

Why Proportion Global?

  • Proportion Global is the most decentralised human-centered design agency in 60 countries across the global south.
  • We have 11+ years experience on engaging youth in designing youth-led solutions.
  • Award-winning trainers in youth videography
  • Equip youth to document and share authentic stories that matter, from agribusiness to life lessons.
The Proportion Global team has been a reliable and engaged partner, bringing valuable perspectives and practical insights to the project at every step. Throughout their engagement with GAIN, Proportion has demonstrated robust competencies in human-centered design (HCD), stakeholder engagement, and user research, all of which have helped GAIN achieve our objectives in developing our co-innovation platform
Anthony Wenndt
Anthony WenndtSocial Protection Lead, GAIN
Proportion has been an informed, thoughtful, and collaborative partner on the Afri-Plastics Challenge to date. Their approach, enthusiasm, and big picture thinking is helping to increase the overall value of the prize to the African innovators we are working with, as well as contributing to the project’s value for money. I consider them a trusted partner to help deliver key elements of support - I am glad to be working with them and look forward to potential future collaborations.
Janet Southern McCormick
Janet Southern McCormickProgramme manager, Challenge Works
Proportion ensures you get the right team for your human-centered design projects as they recognize the unique needs of every client
Brenda Nyakoa
Brenda NyakoaSenior Coordinator, Education Research and Innovation, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
We are very happy with the custom coaching provided to our implementing parties (IPs) by Proportion. The team is very skilled in developing feasible approaches and tools, and they are flexible and proactive in their communication. Our IPs much appreciate the support and we see significant improvements in their project design that will hopefully lead to sustainable and decent jobs for young men and women.
Marlou Rijk
Marlou RijkDelivery Manager, Challenge Fund for Youth Employment
Proportion helped add structure and creative thinking to a complex acceleration program which ultimately assisted ventures in integrating valuable feedback to their business model
Robert Haynie
Robert HaynieDirector, SPRING Accelerator

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