Participatory Video – C4D Network

Living Cultures: Maasai Stories – Redress and Resilience (London, UK)

November 28, 2018

“We’ve had journalists come and go. We’ve had film crews, we’ve had photographers come and go, and we’ve seen how other people tell our story, and now it’s time for us to tell our own story”.

Samwel Nangiria, Maasai leader and participatory video hub leader.

InsightShare, Oakland Institute and Pitt Rivers Museum invite you to join us for an evening of discussion, film screenings and presentations with Maasai Elders and Community leaders from Tanzania and Kenya. We will explore the relationship between museum representations of Maasai culture and present-day struggles over land rights and protection of language and culture.

Living Cultures is a unique collaboration between Pitt Rivers Museum and InsightShare, working for the first time with Maasai communities from Tanzania and Kenya to reclaim the narratives behind the Museum’s collections from the region. Collaborating with museum curators to realign stories, attributions and descriptions of artifacts, the Maasai team will also showcase their powerful videos and discuss how the use participatory video to bring sharply into focus their current land rights campaign.

Confirmed Speakers:

Samwel Nangiria – Maasai activist and Director of NGO-Net, Loliondo, Tanzania
Yannick Ikayo Ndoinyo, Kuweya Timan Mollel and Francis Shomet Ole Naingisa – Elders and Community Leaders, Loliondo, Tanzania
Scholastica Ene Kukutia – Women’s rights activist, Kenya
Anuradha Mittal – Executive Director, The Oakland Institute, US
Laura van Broekhoven – Director, Pitt Rivers Museum, UK
Paulina Feodoroff – Sámi Campaigner, Film and Theatre Artist, Finland
Nick Lunch – Director, InsightShare, UK

Supported by:

Pitt Rivers Museum, Staples Trust, Bertha Foundation, Network for Social Change, The Built Environment Trust, The Gentlemen Baristas

Community Video for Nutrition Guide: Using Participatory, Community-Led Videos to Improve Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition (SPRING, Digital Green 2015)

March 20, 2016

This Community Video for Nutrition Guide is a joint product of SPRING and Digital Green (DG), an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) registered in the United States and India. This guide is based on our organizations’ combined experience in implementing a proof of concept project between January and October 2013, formally known as the SPRING/DG Collaboration and Feasibility Study. This 10-month project focused on integrating content on high-impact maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) practices, including information on key hygiene-related behaviors, into the existing DG community-led video project, which is predominantly focused on promoting improved agricultural practices among small-scale and marginal women farmers. The target audience was pregnant women and/or mothers with children under the age of two participating in existing self-help groups (SHGs) in 30 villages in two blocks of Keonjhar District of Odisha, India. The SHGs also included a wider representation of female community members, who were targeted as key influencers for the recommended behaviors. Given that the target audience included a large number of influencers that wouldn’t be adopting the practices themselves, the project not only tracked adoptions, but also promotions of MIYCN behaviors.

The guide is specifically intended to provide organizations, projects, and practitioners interested in using or testing community video for MIYCN with the critical information and tools needed to initiate, produce, and disseminate a participatory community-video approach for MIYCN. This guide is intended to be used in combination with DG standard operating procedures (SOPs), which can be accessed openly on its website linked here. Although focused on promoting MIYCN, the Guide builds on the DG agriculture focused platform, to which other content can be added or emphasized, such as information promoting sexual and reproductive health and family planning, nutrition-sensitive agricultural practices, community institution building, government schemes, animal husbandry, financial inclusion programs, nonfarm income-generating activities, and a whole range of other topics.

Click here for full guide.

Participatory Video and the Most Significant Change: a guide for facilitators (InsightShare 2015)

December 16, 2015

This year was marked by the UN as a year for evaluation and this guide is designed to support those planning and carrying out evaluation using Participatory Video (PV) with the Most Significant Change technique (or PVMSC for short.) This is a participatory approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning that amplifies the voices of participants and helps organisations to better understand and improve their programmes.

The guide provides references to articles and publications which discuss the theory and practice of using PV for monitoring and evaluation in more detail as well as the practical application of the tool. It is designed to be easy to use and was created in response to requests for guidance made to InsightShare on using PV for monitoring and evaluation.

The guide has been produced with support from UNICEF in partnership with C4D Network.

To find out more about InsightShare and how they use PvMSC check out InsightShare’s YouTube Channel dedicated to this method.

.[Source: Soledad Muniz, InsightShare and Guide author]

Building Peace through Social Change Communication: Participatory Video in Conflict-affected Communities (Community Development Journal, 2015)

August 19, 2015

This paper draws on the experience of a participatory video (PV) project conducted in the Rift Valley of Kenya after the 2007–2008 post-election crisis when the country underwent a period of intense ethnic violence. After the ﬁghting reached an end, members of different communities who were now enemies had to return to live together as neighbours. In this case study, the author presents the impact that a collection of PVs created from the work of International Non-Governmental OrganisationMercy Corps for programme evaluation purposes, became a tool for peacebuilding and conﬂict transformation for the youths in the Rift Valley.