Watch Insight's Participatory Video in action

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Read a review of this book, written by Dr Robert Chambers, IDS, Sussex University.

New! Handbook on Participatory Video

"Insights into Participatory Video: a handbook for the field"

(NEW! Now also available in Russian!)

Written by Insight's directors; Nick and Chris Lunch. This 125-page booklet is a practical guide to setting up and running PV projects. It draws on experience in PV in several countries. Helpful tips for the facilitator clarify how to use video to encourage a lively, democratic process.

Descriptions of games and exercises to introduce PV and case studies are illustrated with cartoons and photographs. A selection of video films made by local people and a training film are included in the accompanying CD-ROM.

The preparation and publication of this booklet and CD-ROM were supported by the UNDP Small Grants Programme of the Global Environmental Fund (GEF), HURIST (Human Rights
Division) and CSO (Civil Society Division), also by Prolinnova, Compas and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex in the UK.

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Contents:

Author's note

PART ONE: PARTICIPATORY VIDEO (PV) IN A NUTSHELL

PART TWO: THE PV PROCESS
1. Setting up a new PV project
2. Getting started: the key PV games
3. Fieldwork: developing the techniques
4. Interviewing tips
5. Reflection and analysis: creative and therapeutic activities
6. Organising community screenings
7. Editing footage, community screenings and leaving copies behind

PART THREE: TIPS FOR FACILITATORS -ETHICS AND PROCESS

PART FOUR: TECHNICAL TIPS
1. Things to remember
2. Organising footage
3. Logging
4. Recording sound
5. Electric power options

PART FIVE: PV IN ACTION
1. Insight's vision on communication for development
2. Ways to apply PV
3. Casestudies

APPENDIX
1. Insight's training activities
2. PV in practice - a selection of personal accounts
3. Insight on participatory research
4. 10 steps to using PV in community consultation
5. Equipment inventory for PV projects
6. Information on partners
7. References, PV further reading and useful links

This is such an excellent piece of work, accessible, clear, original, and inspiring. It fills a gap. It is an education to people like me who have only seen PV from afar. It deserves wide publicity and dissemination, and many
readers for whom it will be an invitation to creativity, opening up a new dimension, new activities, a new repertoire of good things to do. So thanks and congratulations."

Dr Robert Chambers, IDS, University of Sussex, UK.

Read his review of the handbook here