As we move into the third phase of the Living Cultures Indigenous Fellowship, we interviewed mentors of three different hubs to share their journey over the last couple of months. Sinegugu, Samwel and Magella share personal experiences as mentors of the Amadiba (South Africa), OLM-T (Tanzania) and Gurapau (Kenya) hubs, respectively. The local mentors are…
I’m Christopher Outlaw from Devon in the UK. I’m currently pursuing a MA in Intercultural Communication and International Development (MAICID) at the University of Sheffield. ‘ID’ is the search for solutions to the world’s most pressing human problems, and my course aims to enhance this with the cultural sensitivity of ‘IC’. I’m a part time…
When I decided I wanted to study international development far away from home, one of the main reasons was that I wanted to learn how to enact meaningful change effectively. As months went by, I became more aware of the importance of involving local communities in the process, and was excited to learn about participatory…
Balungile Ntshangase, lives in the rural village of Gobodweni in the Amadiba area of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. She is a farmer, the co-founder of Youth Voice Out, a group that discusses teenage pregnancy in her village, and part of the Amadiba participatory video team, the latest Indigenous community media hub to join the…
In 2018, behavioural change experts White Rice Communications used participatory video and most significant change (PVMSC) techniques to review a maternal and child health behavior intervention in Pakistan. They involved 11,000 women in the review process. Here, we describe InsightShare’s online training that led to this wide-reaching and illuminating review, and how the PVMSC method…
Across 2015 and 2016, InsightShare delivered participatory video training to the Lutheran Church of Liberia, funded by the Church of Sweden, during the peak of an Ebola crisis in the country. Here we discuss how we employed a hybrid online and face-to-face format to ensure the important work of local partners could continue despite the…
Ayanda Mncwabe-Mama’s video explores the richness of African identity in Mnqaba James village, South Africa, stating ‘our being and value as Africans is within’. Through interviews with three residents of Mnqaba James village on COVID-19, this richness is amplified and refuses to become one neat perspective. Although they all agree that the international response to…
Jen Awingan has previously worked with InsightShare on Participatory Video projects based in the Philippines. Now, she is working with the Ammoyo Volunteers to create videos documenting the struggles of fishing communities in Luzon and raising awareness for their self-organised relief programme. Fishing communities in Luzon: Competing Crises and COVID-19 Around the world, we are seeing…
