Speaking Up Safely: Making Whistleblowing Easier to Understand

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Client
International Cocoa Initiative
Themes
  • Social Justice
  • Eliminating Violence and Harmful Practices
  • Education
Services
  • Copywriting & Editing
  • Creative Direction & Design
  • Illustrative Design
  • Animation

The Challenge

Whistleblowing policies exist to give people a safe way to raise concerns, but the process can feel formal, complicated or intimidating. The International Cocoa Initiative needed a clear, accessible way to explain why its whistleblowing policy matters, how it connects to the organisation’s values and Code of Conduct, and how staff and stakeholders can report misconduct anonymously.

The Solution

We developed a concise animated explainer that turns the policy into a straightforward, human story. Rather than presenting whistleblowing as a dense set of rules, the script focuses on why speaking up matters and walks viewers through the anonymous reporting process in clear, accessible language. The tone is proactive and positive, helping make an important safeguard feel approachable and actionable.

The Results

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Languages supported

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Complex topics made accessible through visual storytelling

Our Journey with ICI

We began by developing an illustration style that refreshed ICI’s existing visual language while introducing cultural patterns and visual references from Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.

We worked with ICI to shape the script around the questions a viewer is most likely to have. We then developed the visual direction and storyboard before bringing the animation to life with Yans Media. The result is a reusable communication tool that can help ICI introduce the policy consistently across staff and stakeholder audiences.

 

Project Credits

Creative Direction & Design

Future By Design

Copywriting

Future By Design

Illustration

Future By Design with Yans Media

Animation

Yans Media