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.

A woman and a man in Northern Kenya attach a camera to a tripod during a Participatory Video project

Global network of community-owned video hubs

How can the emergence of autonomous, community-led media ‘hubs’, working together in a global network, enable community voices to be shared internationally? Soledad Muñiz (Head of Innovation and Development at InsightShare) explores our big vision: a heterogeneous village globe that uses communication media to shift power and relations and create equality. The hub network began…

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A photo of Isabelle Lemaire

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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A community screening of a Participatory Video in India

Building global media networks with a difference

How can Participatory Video create spaces horizontal communication between marginalised communities and groups around the world? In this article for the Glocal Times, InsightShare’s co-founder Nick Lunch explores the potential of community media ‘hubs’ to facilitate: farmer-to-farmer sharing of local innovations, networks of solidarity between indigenous custodians of sacred landscapes, and the development of community…

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An indigenous activist from Bangladesh holds a sign saying 'Protect Forest'

Preserving biocultural diversity through Participatory Video

Indigenous people worldwide want their voice to be heard, they want to tell their own stories and share knowledge with the ‘outside’ on their terms. In this short article in Resurgence magazine, InsightShare’s co-founder Nick Lunch explores how Participatory Video provides a mechanism for indigenous communities to have their voices heard; strengthening themselves and their…

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