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InsightShare works with partner organisations to train their staff in Participatory Video facilitators and to assist them in integrating the practice into their programmes. By training trainers we hope to spread the practice of Participatory Video to even more communities and groups.
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Climate Change Adaptation and Human Rights in Nigeria

In January 2011, a group of representatives from Nigerien non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on climate adaptation and human rights in Niger were brought together for a participatory video workshop. During the training, two short films were produced illustrating community based adaptation initiatives supported by UNDP in two respective villages in the Dakoro commune. This training was supported by UNDP/GEF Community-BASED adaptation (CBA) programme.

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Themes: Climate Change, Community Action, Human Rights
Category: Capacity Building, Human Rights Based Approach, Training

Indigenous community from Nongtraw village show their rotational farming techniques

Fifty members of the Khasi village in Nongtraw, Meghalaya, North West India, made a video with the support of InsightShare and KSO, a local indigenous organizationas part of the project for the Indigenous Partnership for Food Sovereignty and Agrobiodiversity. The video was presented at the Terra Madre meeting in Sweden (June 17th-19th 2011) by the commuity members themselves. 

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Cultural Resiliance, Indigenous Issues
Category: Capacity Building, Documenting Heritage, Training

A window to the Green Agenda in the Western Balkans

Working in 6 Balkan countries MilieuKontakt and Kocka implemented a participatory process of local sustainable development called 'The Green Agenda'. Between November 2009 and October 2010 InsightShare facilitators visited the Green Agenda working groups in Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia to introduce participatory video as a way to tell their stories. This is the story of the workshops...

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Community Action, Natural Resource Management
Category: Training

Lives of the Forest

Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand

'Lives of the Forest' was created by indigenous activists from across the Asia Pacific region exploring the likely impacts of the UN's REDD programme on indigenous resources and lifestyles. It was created during a participatory video facilitator training in Ifugao (Philippines) by representatives of 15 distinct indigenous communities from 8 different countries.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Climate Change, Indigenous Issues
Category: Advocacy, Training

A window to the Green Agenda in the Western Balkans

Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia

This video was created as a regional compilation of “A window to the Green Agenda in the Western Balkans, local storytelling through Participatory Video” project.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Community Action, Natural Resource Management
Category: Capacity Building, Network Development, Training

A Rights-Based Approach to Participatory Video: toolkit

'A Rights-Based Approach to Participatory Video: toolkit' has been assembled to provide the first few stepping stones for practitioners of participatory video to begin introducing a rights-based approach into their practice.  The toolkit (published on 11th June 2010) is FREE to download here as a dynamic PDF.

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Themes: Community Action, Human Rights
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach, Training

The Isabelle Lemaire interview

United Kingdom

Isabelle Lemaire, Director of Programmes at InsightShare, talks about our use of participatory video and the Most Significant Change method for Monitoring and Evaluation.

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Themes: PV Demo
Category: Monitoring & Evaluation, Training

Umphakathi Okhohliwe (The Forgotten Community)

South Africa

A short film created by community representatives in the KwaSanti township in Durban as part of a capacity building programme for Oxfam Canada partners in southern Africa.

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Themes: Community Action, Health
Category: Capacity Building, Training

What is Participatory Video?

Worldwide

This animation explains the process and ethos behind the Participatory Video methodology, as practiced by InsightShare in its various projects around the world.  Using simple drawings, reminiscent of the storyboards created by participants, the process of community authored video for change is detailed from conception to creation and beyond.

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Themes: PV Demo
Category: Training

UNDRIP animation

Worldwide

This short animation explains in a simple way UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples).

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Themes: Indigenous Issues, PV Demo
Category: Human Rights Based Approach, Training