Project 1: ZCIEA - Informal Economy Documentary
Nafuna Africa produced a powerful documentary for the Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA), giving voice to the 88% of Zimbabwean workers in the informal sector who contribute $7.4 billion annually to the economy. By embedding our production team within markets, construction sites, and trading zones, we captured authentic stories of 198,466 informal workers across 43 territories, combining intimate personal narratives with compelling data visualization. The documentary became ZCIEA's cornerstone advocacy tool, influencing parliamentary hearings and securing historic collective agreements with 19 local authorities that recognized public space as legitimate workplace—a groundbreaking achievement in Zimbabwe's labor movement that continues to shape informal economy policy nationwide.
Project 2: Veritas Women - Child Marriage
When 31% of Zimbabwean girls were still being married before age 18 despite constitutional protections, Nafuna Africa partnered with legal think tank Veritas to create an animation that would change the law. Using trauma-informed animation techniques, we centered the animated child character stories with legal analysis and motion graphics that visualized constitutional discrepancies. The Animation played a pivotal role in Veritas's successful 2016 Constitutional Court case that declared all marriages under age 18 unconstitutional, protecting thousands of Zimbabwean girls from forced marriage and setting legal precedent cited across Africa in anti-child marriage campaigns.
Project 3: DW Akademie x Nafuna Campus - Training Module
Deutsche Welle Akademie needed to transform traditional journalism training manuals into dynamic, engaging content for aspiring multimedia journalists across Southern Africa. Leveraging Nafuna Campus's 13 years of vocational training expertise, we created a modular explainer video combining 2D animation, screen recordings, and motion graphics that translated complex journalism concepts into accessible visual learning. The training module—designed with African media contexts and examples—has been deployed in DW Akademie workshops across Zimbabwe and Southern Africa, university journalism programs, and online learning platforms, establishing Nafuna Africa as a trusted partner for international development organizations requiring high-quality educational content production.
Project 4: ZAPIM - Malaria Prevention Animation
With over 5 million Zimbabweans living in malaria-endemic areas, the Zimbabwe Assistance Program in Malaria (ZAPIM) needed culturally appropriate health education that could transcend literacy barriers and reach rural communities via mobile phones. Nafuna Africa created mobile-optimized 2D animations in English, Shona, and Ndebele, featuring relatable Zimbabwean characters navigating real-world malaria prevention scenarios—from proper bed net installation to early treatment-seeking. Distributed through Econet Wireless's 9 million subscribers, the animations contributed to training hundreds of health workers, distributing 1.6 million bed nets, and achieving significant declines in malaria incidence across 15 high-burden districts, pioneering a mobile health education model now studied by malaria control programs across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Project 5: UN Women - HeForShe Campaign
UN Women Zimbabwe needed a powerful animation to engage men and boys as allies in achieving gender equality without alienating male audiences. Nafuna Africa created a dynamic 60-second 2D animation that distilled complex advocacy into compelling scenes: fathers supporting daughters' education, boys challenging stereotypes, and workplace equity. The culturally sensitive animation balanced respect for Zimbabwean culture with progressive messaging, using empathy rather than blame to inspire transformation. Deployed across social media, conferences, and annual HeForShe Impact Summits, the campaign contributed to onboarding numerous HeForShe Ambassadors, recognizing 60 youth Innovators Against Gender-Based Violence, catalyzing corporate policy reforms, and increasing male participation in gender equality activism across Zimbabwe.
Project 6: Hivos - Women in Leadership
Despite Zimbabwe's constitutional guarantees of gender equality, women's representation at local government levels had dropped 3%, revealing systemic barriers to political participation. Nafuna Africa created a strategic explainer video for Hivos Zimbabwe's Women Empowered for Leadership (WE4L) programme that visualized discriminatory narratives, patriarchal cultural practices, and isolation of women leaders through compelling data graphics and metaphorical imagery. Designed for multiple audiences—from donors to government officials to women leaders themselves—the video translated complex gender theory into actionable advocacy. The strategic communication value was recognized by the European Union, contributing to securing €1.1 million in funding for subsequent women's leadership programming and establishing Nafuna Africa's reputation for development communications that actively drive program success and sustainability.