D&R Impact
Strategic storytelling for change
D&R Impact is a strategic storytelling, audience engagement, and media partner that helps organizations drive social impact across Africa through campaigns, content, culture, and distribution.
What We Do
1. Agency
We develop strategies, campaigns, messaging, and communication assets for development partners, foundations, NGOs, institutions, and mission-driven brands.
2. Media Network
We connect impact work to real audiences through owned and affiliated platforms across digital and traditional media — including Ctrl-Z — so it travels further and lands more meaningfully.
3. Cultural Translator
We turn complex development issues into stories, formats, language, and characters that African audiences actually care about, understand, and remember.
4. IP Studio
We create and repurpose original formats and storytelling properties — such as Foods of Africa — as vehicles that advance causes, shape public conversation, and communicate impact across Africa and beyond.
Built on the capabilities and track record of D&R Studios, we bring together broadcast-quality production, digital-native storytelling, and distribution strategy under one roof. Our work spans documentaries, campaign films, social content, animation, and dramatized shorts — designed to help organizations communicate complex issues with clarity, emotion, and relevance.
We shape narratives that people can feel, follow, and act on.
Our clients and partners include the Gates Foundation, PATH International, Malaria No More, KCDF, SHOFCO, GVRC, Girl Effect, Marie Stopes, and FilmAid.
Inspiration Organisations
A reference set of organisations whose positioning, work, or model offers directional inspiration for D&R Impact.
Economist Impact
The research and impact arm of The Economist Group. Uses rigorous analysis, data storytelling, and high-profile convening to drive policy and business change. Strong model for positioning impact work as credible, premium, and globally relevant.
Purpose
Global social impact agency using creative storytelling, insight-led activations, and evidence-based experimentation to shift narratives and drive change. Works with foundations, brands, and NGOs including the UN, Packard Foundation, and LEGO Foundation. A strong comparator for D&R Impact’s agency pillar.
Briteweb
A digital agency for nonprofits and social change organisations, specialising in strategy, design, and technology. Known for clean, purposeful digital presence and strong brand-building for mission-driven clients.
GLBAL Media
Nonprofit video production company specialising in fundraising videos, brand films, impact stories, and documentaries for mission-driven organisations. Offers a useful reference for how impact-focused production houses position and package their services.
Mediorite
Award-winning creative and corporate video production company based in London. Produces films with a strong emphasis on purpose and impact. Relevant for production quality benchmarking and how to articulate craft-led storytelling for institutional clients.
SIMA Studios
Supports visionary changemakers through film awards, distribution, and education programmes. Operates at the intersection of impact storytelling and audience building — a reference for how to build an IP and platform ecosystem around social impact content.
Burness
A communications firm specialising in social change, working at the intersection of public health, education, and advocacy. Known for strategic narrative work with foundations and NGOs — directly comparable to D&R Impact’s agency positioning.
Fenton
fenton.com Self-described as “the agency for impact,” Fenton works across advertising, creative, digital, strategic communications, and crisis management for healthcare, philanthropy, racial justice, and issue advocacy clients. A strong positioning and service architecture reference.