Our Tools.

SafeChat is a vlog and podcast platform that brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds — a virtual roundtable in the spirit of the MIT Media Labs, where every voice matters and every opinion counts. People from all walks of life come to engage in meaningful dialogue about Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), surfacing the issues that often live in the shadows of public conversation.

But SafeChat is not just a discussion. It's a collaborative effort to co-design systematic solutions — transforming conversations into actions, challenges into opportunities. It is, at once, a podcast, a vlog, a community, and a movement. The point is not just to start the SRHR conversation; it's to change the narrative, one dialogue at a time.

SafeChat episodes feed directly into the Listen stage of every Lab cycle — community-surfaced themes become season arcs become co-design priorities become prototypes.

The SRHR Toolkit is BWEN's open curriculum for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights — designed by and for young Ugandans, then adapted across the IMAGI-NATION network. It is not a pamphlet. It is a facilitation bundle, conversation-starter pack, and consent-led learning sequence built to move through cultural and religious taboos rather than around them.

The Toolkit covers a six-module arc: Anatomy & Cycle Literacy → Consent & Communication → Rights & Duty Bearers → Safe Spaces & Allies → Menstrual Health & Dignity → Storytelling for Change. Each module is delivered through a mix of facilitation prompts, mentor-led discussions, and two signature playable artifacts: The Menstruame and The Puzzles.

The Shebang Trashion Show is BWEN's annual public-facing platform — a runway that tells a story of strength, resilience, and empowerment. Born in 2021 as the first-ever menstrual-themed fashion show, Shebang transformed the catwalk into a canvas where designers paint vivid narratives of menstrual experiences, climate, dignity, and reproductive rights.

It is not just a celebration of fashion. It is a bold statement against societal taboos — turning the spotlight onto topics often shrouded in shame, and using the tools of the corporate fashion world to advocate for menstrual rights, SRHR, and human rights at large.

Shebang also functions as a bridge: bringing together young people from marginalised backgrounds, the corporate world, artists, civic leaders, and the public into a single shared conversation. Proceeds from the show go directly to the Menstruation Station in Kiguli zone, Kisenyi III, Kampala.

Story-Maps is BWEN's mapping methodology — the Map stage of every 90-day Lab cycle. It's a participatory process where communities surface their own assets, tensions, dreams, and duty-bearers into a single shared visual.

Unlike standard needs-assessments — which list what is missing — Story-Maps capture what is present, who holds power, where stories repeat, and which thresholds matter. Maps are drawn together, posted publicly in the Community Lab, and revised each cycle as new information emerges.

Years of Story-Maps now constitute one of BWEN's most valuable archives — a longitudinal record of how communities see themselves and how that seeing changes over time.

The Station Experience is the activating ritual at the front of every Community Solution Lab — a three-day immersive visit that opens the cycle, builds the trust foundation, and commits the community to the work ahead.

Day one is listening. Day two is mapping. Day three is committing. Across the three days, the Station team and the community move from strangers to collaborators to co-owners of a 90-day cycle. The Kit is the playbook that makes the three days reproducible — facilitation guides, ceremony rituals, prompt cards, materials lists, and the post-Station reporting template.

It is the most-deployed tool in BWEN's network — used to activate every Community Solution Lab.