Participatory Video For Change: Promoting Women's Rights in Southern Africa - Video

This video shows the 3-stage capacity building in participatory video facilitation process undertaken by partner organisations of Oxfam Canada based in southern Africa. The entire training programme took place over nine months and was delivered by InsightShare - a United Kingdom (UK)-based organisation specialising in participatory video.
Participatory video is a set of techniques to involve a group or a community in shaping and creating their own film. The process aims to make basic film-making easy and accessible, and it encourages participants to explore issues, voice concerns, or simply be creative and tell stories.
In 2010, 3 partner organisations of Oxfam Canada, working on issues of gender-based violence in Southern Africa, were invited to take part in a capacity-building programme to train staff and direct beneficiaries in participatory video facilitation methods. Over 3 stages, spanning almost 1 year, the trainees acquired the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver high-quality participatory video projects and practiced their skills within short community post-training assignments in their own communities and their organisations' service users.