InsightShare offers training in Participatory Video for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). Participatory Video adds value, encourage iterative learning and explore qualitative data often missed through traditional M&E methods. This article describes how we facilitate M&E projects by combining Participatory Video with the Most Significant Change Technique.

One of our current programmes aims to build capacity to two groups of young women in Uganda and Guatemala in Participatory Video for M&E. These women are learning to make films that then inform programming and promote learning as well as peer to peer exchange for community mobilisation.

Commissioned case study prepared for the Centre for Development Informatics, University of Manchester, UK, for their Climate Change, Innovation & ICTs Project.

Phil Borges and his crew interviewed the InsightShare team and trainees participating in our PV M&E Initiative in Guatemala for his documentary on prevention of violence against women, commissioned by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, administered by UN Women.

IREX writes about our participation in the Washington panel “Beyond the Numbers: Storytelling as a Youth Development Evaluation Tool”, where we presented a case study on PV for M&E.

InsightShare presented a PV M&E case study in the Knowledge Management Impact Challenge and was selected as one of the top case studies, participating in the UN Conference.

InsightShare and IIED worked together during 2009 and 2010 in an action research project called Community-Based Adaptation in Africa, using participatory video for monitoring and evaluation.