Training Field Staff to Take Photos
for Nonprofit, NGO & Government Initiatives
This presentation/training touches on both the kinds of photos needed and how to take photos in a culturally-sensitive manner.
This presentation is focused on a specific program and a
specific country (Afghanistan), but in 2022, I started working for
a small affiliate of Habitat for Humanity serving a rural area of
Oregon, and I was stunned at how much I faced exactly the same
challenges in staff taking photos in the field (of home building
activities, of partner families engaged in home building
activities, of home repairs for vulnerable homeowners and of the
homeowners themselves, etc.). And I will never forget in Oregon,
getting a photo of a pile of gravel from a field worker, meant to
represent an accomplishment at a work site, and thinking back to
an Afghan field engineer back in 2007 who brought be pretty much
the same photo to show accomplishments at an MMRD-funded work
site.
If you adapt this presentation for your own use, be sure that, when importing your own photos, that you make the photos have less dpi. You do this (in MS Powerpoint; not sure about OpenOffice or NeoOffice, but I'm sure it's similar) by:
Download here. It's 639 KB.
The result of this kind of training with staff? See the initiative's Flickr site; most of these photos were taken by various staff members, including Afghans, NOT by me .
Also see Building Staff
Capacities to Communicate and to Present, which
describes various activities undertaken to improve the
communication capacities of Afghan government staff, and links to
various slide presentations and materials used for this endeavor.
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humanitarian / development / aid initiatives, and how to address
those challenges.
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