PHOTO CREDIT: © 2006 Sara Feldman , Courtesy of Photoshare

Two secondary school students practice with a video camera before making a film about HIV/AIDS. Using video equipment allows them to get their ideas and messages about the issues in their community to the rest of the world. Kisumu, Kenya
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PARTICIPATORY VIDEO DEFINED:

...PARTICIPATORY VIDEO is an iterative process whereby community members use video to document innovations and ideas, or to focus on issues that affect their environment or their village. The participants attend participatory video workshops where they can review what they and others have filmed. The videos are then screened in the village in the evenings, thus ensuring that members of the wider community are involved in the process.

This local viewing of the material as the project progresses lies at the heart of the participatory video process. It achieves several positive outcomes at the same time – it opens up local communication channels, promotes dialogue and discussion, and sets in motion a dynamic exchange of ideas on ways to solve problems. It can also help to gauge trends, thus contributes to building consensus within the community...

-Chris Lunch, Director of Insight
E-mail: clunch@insightshare.org
www.insightshare.org

excerpt taken from: www.capacity.org
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PARTICIPATORY VIDEO activities can initiate a dynamic process of engagement and dialogue on issues of local concern, including highly sensitive topics. From conception though production and public screening, the process is driven by individual community members. Themes and topics are relevant to local audiences and presented in culturally appropriate ways. People are always keen to see their own community members on screen. Video helps amplify voices for change from within the community and fosters peer-to-peer outreach.

-by Tegan Molony, Zeze Konie and Lauren Goodsmith
Through our eyes- participatory video in West Africa.pdf
http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR27/24.pdf
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...PARTICIPATORY VIDEO, then, has many strengths, and can make a lasting impact as part of a whole process of community empowerment. For the individual participant, it is an enjoyable way of learning a number of skills; technical, artistic, creative and communicative.

-Al Garthwaite,
Vera Media,
Email: al@vera-media.co.uk
Website: www.vera-media.co.uk
excerpt taken from: Community documentaries.pdf

PHOTO CREDIT: © 2000 Todd Shapera, Courtesy of Photoshare

Adolescents in a village neighboring the village of Ranichauri using a video camera;
Indian Himalayas, India (Tehri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh).

PHOTO CREDIT: © 2005 Ana Marie Leung, Courtesy of Photoshare

A native Ecuadorean family videotapes foreign tourists at
Ingapirca, Ecuador.

PHOTO CREDIT: © 2001 Njamburi/Cabak ELS, Courtesy of Photoshare

Participants at a cultural celebration using a video camera
in Etaro village. Tanzania

PHOTO CREDIT: © 2001 Njamburi/Cabak ELS, Courtesy of Photoshare

Adolescent girl carrying a video camera at festival in Mabui Village. Tanzania

News on Participatory Video (PV)
Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability



Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change(Introduction Video: The Image of Identity)
By Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, 2001



Visual Griots: a photography workshop for the children of Tominian, Mali
By Shawn Davis
E-mail: shawn@shawndavisphoto.com



Participation and Beyond : Handing Over the Camera
By P V Satheesh,
Deccan Development Society,
Hyderabad, India



Participatory Video Production in Tanzania: An Ideal or wishful thinking?
By Dr. Martin Mhando
Murdoch University Australia
Tanzanet Journal. 2005. Volume 5 (1):9-15
Participatory Video Production In Tanzania.pdf



Participatory video for monitoring and evaluation
By Chris Lunch

Insight
E-mail: clunch@insightshare.org



Participant Authored Audiovisual Stories (PAAS): Giving the camera away or giving the camera a way?
By Marcelo Ramella and Gonzalo Olmos, June 2005

Participant Authored Audiovisual Stories (PAAS).pdf

Marcelo Ramella, E-mail: M.Ramella@lse.ac.uk
Gonzalo Olmos, E-mail: G.E.Olmos@lse.ac.uk



Film-making farmers: Everyone’s a teacher, everyone’s a student
By Dominic Elliot
Via participatory video (PV), the Tichezerane Aids support group in M’deka, Malawi, is promoting healthy ways of living with Aids.



Reflections on Participatory Video as a Research Method-with steve abah.pdf
(Transcript of YouTube film)
With Steve Abah, Theatre for Development Centre, Nigeria and
Idaci Ferreira, Action for Rural Development and Environment (ADRA), Angola

Courtesy of The Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability
(Citizenship DRC) is an international network of researchers and activists exploring new forms of citizenship that will help make rights real.




Powerful Grassroots Women Communicators: Participatory Video in Bangladesh
By Renuka Bery and Sara Stuart

This article appeared in Women Transforming Communication, edited By Donna Allen, Ramona R. Rush and Susan J. Kaufman, as well as in Participatory Communication for Social Change, edited by Jan Servaies, Rhomas L. Jacobson and Shirley A. White. Both volumes were published in 1996 by Sage.



Q&A: Gender and participatory video in agriculture and development
By Maria Protz
http://ictupdate.cta.int/en/regulars/q_a/q_a_gender_and_participatory_video_in_agriculture_and_development Copyright 2008, CTA.
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (ACP-EU)



Resources on Participatory Video (PV) JULY 2008.pdf

Resources on Participatory Video (PV) JULY 2007.pdf

Complied by the Participation, Power and Social Change Team at the Institute of Development Studies

Email: participation@ids.ac.uk
Web: www.ids.ac.uk/ids/particip/



Insights into PV-a handbook for the field
Insights into PV-a handbook for the field.pdf
By Nick and Chris Lunch

www. insight share.org

This handbook is a practical guide to setting up and running Participatory
Video (PV) projects anywhere in the world. It is has been written for
anyone who wishes to facilitate PV projects.

Published by Insight
First edition February 2006
Copyright © Nick and Chris Lunch 2006
ISBN 0-9552456-0-5



Through our eyes- participatory video in West Africa.pdf
By Tegan Molony, Zeze Konie and Lauren Goodsmith

11-minute video on the project

Tegan Molony, E-mail: teganmolony@yahoo.com.au
Zeze Konie, E-mail: zezekonie@yahoo.com
Lauren Goodsmith, E-mail: lauren_goodsmith@hotmail.com



The Role of Participatory Video Method in Enabling Filipino Older Persons to Change Myths about Aging.pdf
By Leticia Salvador - Tojos, Ph. D.



Rural people document their knowledge and innovations with Participatory Video.pdf
IK Notes, No. 71 August 2004

IK Notes reports periodically on Indigenous Knowledge (IK) initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally on such initiatives outside the Region.
It is published by the Africa Region’s Knowledge and Learning Center as part of an evolving IK partnership between the World Bank, communities, NGOs, development institutions and multilateral organizations. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the World Bank Group or its partners in this initiative.
A webpage on IK is available at: www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/default.htm