A Flooded Village (Twantay Township)
Channel: LWF Myanmar
Date: 07/01/2014

This video was collectively planned, filmed and edited by local people. They documented the flooding in their village, a regular occurance that is threatening households close to the river and even the village's ancient pagoda. Interviews with different members of the community, including more marginalised landless families explore the different perspectives in the village and the impact of the flood. They end with a community meeting where the different people concerned share their needs and ideas and a plan of action is agreed upon.

This is one of the outcomes of a capacity building training by InsightShare to enable LWF staff and local community members to use participatory video as an ongoing tool for community development in the Ayeyarwady Delta.

This unique capacity-building programme was the first of its kind in Myanmar. It was designed to provide trainees with all the technical and facilitation skills necessary to undertake participatory video processes, within their communities. You can watch a video describing the capacity-building process in Myanmar here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnzbR...

The objectives of the programme were to train facilitation teams across the delta region in participatory video as a community development and empowerment tool. More specifically, the focus was placed on initiating processes to enable horizontal sharing between communities, create spaces for participatory decision-making, and provide communication tools for local advocacy within a rights-based framework.

The capacity-building programme was designed and implemented by participatory video experts InsightShare (www.insightshare.org) on behalf of The Church of Sweden (www.svenskakyrkan.se/english) in partnership with the Lutheran World Federation Myanmar (lwfmyanmar.org).

For more information about the programme, partners or participatory video in general please visit the InsightShare website for contact details.