The u Amba ecosystem of partners and actors
We are fortunate to collaborate with an extraordinary network that continually evolves. At u Amba we believe that these partnerships are at the heart of driving transformative change. In this section, we highlight the exceptional partners with whom we collaborate to create magic
Partnership Ecosystem
At the core of our work is the building and nurturing of an ecosystem, made up of a diverse array of actors in various capacities. From individuals to institutions, there are a multitude of entities that form part of our narrative-building collaboration.
Core Partners
Triangle Project
The Triangle Project is a non-profit human rights organisation that provides professional services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) individuals, along with their partners and families within South Africa. Its mission is to ensure that they realise their constitutional and human rights. The organisation focuses on three main areas: Health and Support, Community Engagement and Empowerment, and Research and Advocacy.
The work they do includes running sexual health clinical care, providing counselling, organising support groups, operating a helpline, offering public education and training services, engaging in community outreach, providing court support to survivors of hate crimes, and implementing a needle and syringe program.
SWEAT
SWEAT (Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce) is the first sex workers’ rights organisation to emerge in Southern Africa and is one of the most prominent sex worker organisations on the continent. Their work focuses on organising, advocating for, and delivering services to sex workers in South Africa. They also do a bunch of work around the decriminalisation of sex work, and actively participate in legislative and political spaces to make this happen.
Network Partner
Iranti
Iranti-Org came about in 2012 to support queer South African and regional movements in using media as a platform for mobilization and shifting public dialogue. The organization advocates for the rights of LGBTI+ persons, with a specific focus on lesbian, transgender (including gender non-conforming), and intersex individuals in Africa. Through a combination of community outreach and government dialogue, Iranti uses a human rights-based lens to raise issues on gender identities and sexuality. This is achieved through the strategic use of multimedia storytelling, research, and activism.
If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
African proverb
uAmba University
Within the network the core partners were SWEAT and Triangle, who brought together a bunch of different entities through a series of trainings and events. From social media and creative activism trainings, to understanding feminist politics space was created to feed into the ideas and notions that surround the producing of powerful digital narratives. At the core of creating the network was gathering people to share and think through what it means to bring forth the stories that are important to them.Â
The Think Tank was the most powerful example of this for u Amba, where people could connect and work towards thinking about and co-creating the internet folx wanted to see. The space brought together not only some of the people u Amba had the pleasure of encountering but those in our partner’s networks as well. Our incredible council fed into the entire system with their knowledge, expertise and advice and sometimes their presence especially when it came to the Think Tank, a culmination of all thinking and being over the year.
The u Amba ecosystem is one that’s made of not only organisations, but academics, individual activists, social media mavens, media makers, artists and many other folks, understanding that it takes a village to create something powerful.
A glance into the
u Amba ecosystem
A glance into the u Amba ecosystem
Partner produced works: an offering from the ecosystem
Our partners continue to produce incredible things and this is a space to showcase and share them with the world! We love to gather knowledge from the ecosystem so here are some documents and papers from our awesome partners.
