Video for Change Strategies

Participatory Video for M&E – Unpacking how change happened

InsightShare supported Mercy Corps in Kenya to use Participatory Video as an instrument for project evaluation. The training workshop, which integrated local trainees, community participants and Mercy Corps staff, was successful in displaying the power of...

Participatory Video in Conflict-Affected Communities

This paper by Valentina Bau, Graduate student at Macquarie University, Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies, looks at an InsightShare participatory video project in the Rift Valley of Kenya after the 2007–2008 post-election crisis, when the...

Insights into Participatory Video

This is a video about the amazing tool of Participatory Video, as understood and practiced by InsightShare. This introductory video features examples from InsightShare projects in Nigeria, Peru, Malawi, India, Rwanda, UK, Uganda, China, South Africa and Ghana.

What is Participatory Video?

This animation explains the process and ethos behind the Participatory Video methodology, as practiced by InsightShare in its various projects around the world. Using simple drawings, reminiscent of the storyboards created by participants, the process of community...

TEDx Talk: This is NOT a video camera

This TedX talk by our Director Chris Lunch is about the topsy turvy world of ‘participatory video’; where the subjects of a film become the directors; where passive recipients of aid become active changemakers and where we as a social enterprise have chosen:...