A Better Footpath (Bogalay Township)
Channel: LWF Myanmar
Date: 2014-01-24

This video was collectively planned, filmed and edited by local people. They decided to focus on the poor condition of their roads and paths. They used a mixture of role play and real life filming to illustrate the problem from different angles. They show how they organise themselves to collect a contribution per household and mobilise villagers to carry out collective work to patch up the worst parts of the path. They hold a meeting and identify duty bearers who they will contact and lobby for assistance. A decision is made to continue to mobilize the community but also to contact the village tract administrator with a full and detailed proposal.

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.