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.

Case Studies

A group of community members in Malawi make a Participatory Video

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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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 woman in Malawi speaking about testing positive for HIV

AIDS Support Group

In this short article InsightShare Associate Dominic Elliot describes his work with an Aids support group in Malawi. In 2005, InsightShare used Participatory Video as a tool for working with an HIV-positive community group in M’deka, Malawi. The 3-day project was carried out in partnership with the Malawi branch of GOAL, an Irish non-governmental organisation…

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