We are dedicated to sharing the knowledge, skills and insights we gain through our work with communities around the world. Here we present some of our growing collection of guidebooks and toolkits, written articles, and video tutorials.

PV MSC

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Participatory Video and the Most Significant Change

This toolkit has been developed to support you in planning and carrying out evaluations using Participatory Video with the Most Significant Change technique (PVMSC). This is a participatory approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning that amplifies the voices of participants and helps organisations to better understand and improve their programmes. We have been developing, adapting…

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Unpacking how change happened

How does the combined use of Participatory Video and MSC help evaluators gather qualitative data that can be communicated in an accessible way to stakeholders, funders and partners? In this short article for BetterEvaluation, Soledad Muñiz (Head of Innovation and Development at InsightShare) explains how our approaches make the process accessible, easy to implement, rigorous…

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Monitoring Community­ Based Adaptation to Climate Change

Can participatory methods help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change and share lessons learnt with key stakeholders at local, national, regional and international levels? In this article, Isabelle Lemaire and Soledad Muñiz describe how InsightShare supported the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) to pilot Participatory Video for Monitoring and Evaluation across Malawi, South…

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Evaluating post-conflict programming

InsightShare’s Senior Associate, Isabelle Lemaire, discusses how our groundbreaking approach to monitoring and evaluation – fusing together Participatory Video approaches with the Most Significant Change technique – helped Mercy Corps understand the full impact of their post-conflict sports programming in Kenya, following the post-election violence in December 2007. Download the photostory created to describe the evaluation process with…

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