Templates & Guides

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Tools for Creative and Collaborative Practice

At Chembe, we believe that good ideas deserve practical pathways. Over time, we’ve developed templates, worksheets, and guides to help make our ways of working more accessible — for ourselves, our partners, and anyone navigating the complexities of health and social systems.

 

These tools are rooted in lived experience, shaped by collaboration, and designed to support creative, inclusive processes. Whether you’re designing a community workshop, planning a strategy session, or facilitating reflection within your team, we hope these resources offer a useful starting point — one you can adapt, build on, and make your own.

A collection of our writing

Over the years, we have had the privilege to experience, study, and reflect on the health and social systems of many countries.

 

From the stories shared with us by communities over a humble meal, to the discussions across the tables of policymakers, we have gained deeper insight into the realities on the ground. In settings of extreme scarcity, we have learned how challenges can be overcome through creative ingenuity. And in places where we have witnessed the heart-wrenching tragedies that befall humanity, we have also celebrated the joyful hope of people who have transcended these.

 

These experiences have informed the academic studies we have undertaken and have motivated us to contribute answers to the questioning global health space. We have also started capturing some of our ways of working, intending to make it easier for others to follow along on the same journey.

 

Through all this, we have come to believe that by giving creativity and hope space and permission in our health and social systems, achieving a vision of healing, flourishing, and abundance is indeed possible.

Templates and how-to guides

We would like to give back and share our learning gained, to give others/you the courage to try an idea you have been mulling around, start a project, or take a project to the next stage.  In the section below, you will find practical templates we have developed that will guide you through conceptualizing a podcast episode, communicating your research project as a story, or filming an interview.

Podcast Episode Brief – A Template

Crafting a compelling narrative – A Template

Filming Interviews on location – A Practical Guide

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Hosting a X (Twitter) Space – A Practical Guide

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Templates and how-to guides

We would like to give back and share our learning gained, to give others/you the courage to try an idea you have been mulling around, start a project, or take a project to the next stage.  In the section below, you will find practical templates we have developed that will guide you through conceptualizing a podcast episode, communicating your research project as a story, or filming an interview.

Filming Interviews on location – A Practical Guide

Download here

Crafting a compelling narrative – A Template

Download here

Podcast Episode Brief – A Template

Download here

Hosting a X (Twitter) Space – A Practical Guide

Download here

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Dr Lindi van Niekerk is a South African medical doctor with expertise in primary care, health systems, and social innovation. In her global health work, Lindi draws on her technical knowledge as a clinician, her qualitative research experience gained in several low-and middle-income countries, her strategic project implementation capacity, and her creative ability as a filmmaker and storyteller.

 

Since 2008, Lindi has been on a journey to catalyze acceptance and create opportunities for social innovation within health systems. While working as a medical doctor, she established the first public hospital-based end of life care project, and as Inclusive Health Innovation Lead at the University of Cape Town’s Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, she established the first innovation lab in the main public tertiary hospital in Cape Town (Groote Schuur Hospital). Lindi co-founded the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI) in partnership with the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), hosted at the World Health Organization. As part of this initiative, she led a multi-partner research study on social innovation models across 17 countries and provided strategic guidance to the establishment of four social innovation research hubs at universities in Malawi, Uganda, the Philippines, and Colombia. In her own doctoral research, she has focused on gaining a deeper understanding of the factors involved in institutionalizing social innovations as part of the health system in Malawi.

 

Since establishing Chembe Collaborative in 2016, she has worked as an independent consultant with clients ranging from universities, multilateral agencies, private companies, and non-governmental organizations. Lindi has a deep sensitivity to the cultural realities of low-and middle-income countries and the health system challenges faced by both people seeking care and providers/policymakers delivering care in these settings.

 

Lindi holds a PhD in Global Health and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an MBChB from the University of Pretoria. 

Alasdair is a commercial editor, animator and film director. While working with Chembe, he has produced motion graphics for clients such as TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi.

 

Recently, Alasdair completed his second feature film edit – a period love story set in Zanzibar in Swahili. His first feature film edit for “Saloum”, which premiered in the Midnight Madness Category of the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2021.

 

When he isn’t editing foreign language films, he loves working in the documentary field. Having filmed ice swimming world records in Siberia and Alaska, Environmental Marine conservation documentaries all over South and East Africa and edited many humanitarian and wildlife programmes across Africa and Asia. Alasdair is passionate about telling people’s stories.

 

With his love of film and culture, Alasdair was a founding member of the Cape Town leg of the International Short Film Festival in 2010 and was its festival director for 6 years before retiring the festival in 2020. The festival was designed as a network building event through its many host cities on every continent.

Claudi likes understanding and combining seemingly opposite fields, approaches and environments. For her, creativity and analytics are not opposites, but one actually enhances one another. This has driven her to pursue an education in graphic design at Central Saint Martins in London, followed by a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University in Cape Town as well as, holding her Masters in Development Economics from the University of Amsterdam.


As a child of Africa, at the heart of her identity is a passion for social change, which has led her to work on projects relating to financial inclusion, labor fairness and reducing patient waiting times in a pediatric hospital in South Africa. In contrast, Claudi has also worked in more commercial settings, from start-ups to technology consulting for big corporations.


Claudi uses her unique background to help her find commonality and patterns when things seem unconnected. She believes that stronger ideas are formed when we combine disciplines, borrow knowledge from one area and customize it to suit the problem at hand.

Dr Lindi van Niekerk is a South African medical doctor with expertise in primary care, health systems, and social innovation. In her global health work, Lindi draws on her technical knowledge as a clinician, her qualitative research experience gained in several low-and middle-income countries, her strategic project implementation capacity, and her creative ability as a filmmaker and storyteller.

 

Since 2008, Lindi has been on a journey to catalyze acceptance and create opportunities for social innovation within health systems. While working as a medical doctor, she established the first public hospital-based end of life care project, and as Inclusive Health Innovation Lead at the University of Cape Town’s Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, she established the first innovation lab in the main public tertiary hospital in Cape Town (Groote Schuur Hospital). Lindi co-founded the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI) in partnership with the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), hosted at the World Health Organization. As part of this initiative, she led a multi-partner research study on social innovation models across 17 countries and provided strategic guidance to the establishment of four social innovation research hubs at universities in Malawi, Uganda, the Philippines, and Colombia. In her own doctoral research, she has focused on gaining a deeper understanding of the factors involved in institutionalizing social innovations as part of the health system in Malawi.

Since establishing Chembe Collaborative in 2016, she has worked as an independent consultant with clients ranging from universities, multilateral agencies, private companies, and non-governmental organizations. Lindi has a deep sensitivity to the cultural realities of low-and middle-income countries and the health system challenges faced by both people seeking care and providers/policymakers delivering care in these settings.

 Lindi holds a PhD in Global Health and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an MBChB from the University of Pretoria.