•  The PV M&E process supported the action research and helped build common ground between the NGOs, community-based organisations and the communities.
• The workshops built capacity in Participatory Video for M&E of each NGO involved.
• The information gathered fed and advanced the community-based adaptation to climate change research, making the monitoring real and palpable for the communities involved and the local partners.
• Indicators were made accessible to the communities through visualisation, giving them a say in what was going to be measured.
• The community knowledge & proposals represented in the interviews and stories informed the adaptation strategies putting in place by the NGOs, community-based organisations and the communities. For example in Zimbabwe the project shifted from digging out a dam to digging more reliable wells.
• The local screenings of the community-made films were attended by large audiences (over a 100 people in each country) and attracted participation from young and old.
  The process raised awareness and mobilised people on the ground. This provided a platform to empower women's voices, intensified the quantity and quality of participation, as well as the level of community engagement.
• The films also allowed the NGOs to share lessons on community-based adaptation to a wide audience. The films from Kenya and Zimbabwe were screened in Copenhagen for COP15 (UN Climate Change Conference). On a national level, the films were used to draw decision makers’ attention to the importance of climate adaptation.
• In all the countries, the participants saw a very clear role for participatory video in the future. Communities wanted to keep recording their daily lives as a means to document their traditions and celebrations. They also recognised that they could capture change over time and remind themselves of their goals, priorities and action plans using video.
   

"We've learned so much we didn't know about this community through this workshop. The socio-economic surveys we did earlier in the project just didn't give us this kind of information."
Dan Ong’or, Director of Huai Lake Forum, Kenya.

"This is the most participatory workshop I've ever attended, I'm going to try to replicate this approach in everything I do now."
Charles Tonui, researcher at ACTS, Kenya

"I feel empowered and happy. I knew everything about the equipment!"
Joseph Ayugi, Wakesi Kenya.

“We've never had so many people show up for our focus groups discussions, even when we covered more villages. This is an incredible turn out and we're getting a lot of new input from people we've never been able to reach before."
Shepard Zvigadza, Director of Zimbabwe Environment Regional Organisation (ZERO)

"When we showed the film to the local authority, they were surprised. They hadn't realised that climate change was actually impacting communities in their constituencies. It really made them realise they had to do something, now."
Charles Tonui, ACTS Kenya

"Now I understand why I should give up the camera to the community! I didn't know they would be able to do this... now I can learn from them!"
Tom Omyango, coordinator of programs at Huai Lake Forum, Kenya

"I really want to keep working with video in the future to record more different voices and demands from community."
Michael, Huai Lake Forum, Kenya

"Participatory video can be a good tool to allow various marginalized groups and especially women to share freely, and thus to listen to the diversity of perspectives that can greatly enhance learning. The method also allows women to share their stories and views from a safe place, with the comfort of being in charge of what will actually be shared with a wider audience."
Shannon Parring, Indigo, South Africa