Participatory video is a powerful tool for community-led research. It requires the researcher to put aside their own biases and assumptions, allowing community perspectives to shine. As a student researcher, I learned firsthand the value of participatory video when I began replicating a common mistake made by generations of ethnographic filmmakers: the desire to stage…
Conference session: “Participatory Evaluation: Engaging Participants in the Evaluation Process” TIG: Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation AEA Conference 2023: The Power of Story Friday 13th October 2.30 to 3.30 pm – Grand Ballroom 4 Authors: Soledad Muniz, InsightShare. Amanda Burrows and Melissa Bell, Opportunity International UK. Between 2019 and 2023, InsightShare and Opportunity International…
At InsightShare, we place Indigenous People’s wisdom and knowledge at the heart of our work. Through our extensive long-term work to seed community video hubs in the last two decades, we constantly seek opportunities to involve Indigenous participatory video facilitators we train in facilitating projects for civil society actors. Establishing locally-led video hubs In our…
Pakorpa Susangho is a short participatory video in which ten widows from the small settlement of Kulbia in Ghana document and report land issues affecting them. It is a traditional practice in their communities that, following their husband´s death, widows lose the rights to the land they previously owned. One of the ten women collaborating…
