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A catalyst for change
By Chris Lunch (Director Insight) and Emilie Flower (Insight PV Project Manager)
Insight is an organisation pioneering the use of Participatory Video as a tool for empowering individuals and communities. Participatory Video is a set of techniques to involve a group or community in shaping and creating their own film. The idea behind this is that making a video is
easy and accessible, and is a great way of bringing people together to explore issues, voice concerns or simply to be creative and tell stories. This process can be very empowering, enabling a group or community to take action to solve their own problems and also to communicate their needs and ideas to decision-makers and/or other groups and communities. As such, PV can be a highly effective tool to engage and mobilise marginalised people and to help them implement their own forms of sustainable development based on local needs.
Opening communication channels for project recipients is the key to developing successful participant- led projects, with sustainable and far-reaching impacts. Development practitioners can use Participatory Video (PV) for catalysing local action. Moreover, PV leads to strengthening citizens' voice -particularly the poor and marginalised- and enables people to have a greater impact on decision-making processes and advocacy for social justice. During the workshops participants' learned about the potential of PV, its uses and underpinning principles, and how it can add value to participatory approaches. Furthermore, participants were offered hands on experience of Participatory Video games and exercises towards building consensus and expressing their ideas clearly and accessibly.
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Chris Lunch (Insight)
Emilie Flower (Insight)
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