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Moving towards inclusion
Now that you have an understanding of the issues at play in the Guatemalan political and media context, it is time to amplify indigenous voices and achieve media inclusion. We recommend starting by consulting the guidelines for starting conversations about diversity and inclusion within your own team or organization. It is important to ensure you are enacting change at the micro-level before you advocate for change at the macro-level.
Once you have identified and met the needs for diversity and inclusion within your own group, check the media interventions framework to start creating inclusive and representative media programming. Use the information needs assessment to obtain the knowledge needed for creating your media interventions.
If you are an advocacy group, or want to learn how to build support for your media intervention, consult the strategic communication template. If you are a journalist, or if you wish to learn additional do's and don'ts of creating messaging that is respectful of indigenous communities, check the reporting guidelines for journalists.
Finally, if you are ready to pave the way towards indigenous inclusion, but don't know which initiative to take up, check the list of suggested initiatives. Or, if you would rather work on amplifying what has already been done but needs more emphasis, consult our list of prior initiatives.
DISCLAIMER
Convention C169 - Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), Article 7 - lists that “The peoples concerned shall have the right to decide their own priorities for the process of development as it affects their lives, beliefs, institutions, and spiritual well-being and the lands they occupy or otherwise use, and to exercise control, to the extent possible, over their own economic, social and cultural development. In addition, they shall participate in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of plans and programs for national and regional development which may affect them directly.”
Any media intervention, analysis, interview, study, or reporting your organization conducts and any application of the resources in this toolkit by your organization must involve the acceptance, cooperation, and equal participation of the specific indigenous community in question. This also holds true if you are a governmental organization with Article 6 of the Convention stating that governments shall:
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Consult the peoples concerned, through appropriate procedures and in particular through their representative institutions, whenever consideration is being given to legislative or administrative measures which may affect them directly;
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Establish means by which these peoples can freely participate, to at least the same extent as other sectors of the population, at all levels of decision-making in elective institutions and administrative and other bodies responsible for policies and programs which concern them;
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Establish means for the full development of these peoples' own institutions and initiatives, and, in appropriate cases, provide the resources necessary for this purpose.
