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…
