Capacity building through Participatory Video in Myanmar
Channel: InsightShare
Date: 2014-05-22

What happens when local villagers are trained to enact change on their own? Capacity building tools such as Participatory Video enhance community empowerment for the long term. 

In August 2013, a one-week capacity building workshop in facilitating participatory video took place along the Delta region of Myanmar. The workshop, designed and implemented by InsightShare on behalf of The Church of Sweden in partnership with the Lutheran World Federation Myanmar, aimed to facilitate sessions for representatives from four local villages that were already organised to take local action but lacked digital skills on participatory video. 

At the participatory video training, some of the group members learnt how to use digital equipment for the first time, gaining new digital skills and practical experience in the field to initiate processes by themselves and in between communities. The video shows the participants’ journey, going from the first days of training until the post-training assignments reflections. It also provides insights from the participants while they were putting in practice the methods they learnt to help each community.

In this particular programme, participatory video functioned as a capacity building tool to address key issues each community along the Delta region in Myanmar was facing, such as child's rights to education, poor basic infrastructure and floodings. By participating in the programme, participants of Sar Oh Chaung, Ah Si Ka Lay, Bogaley and Twantay villages were able to identify their strengths and weaknesses to take further action on collective issues.

InsightShare is a community development organisation committed to improving and shaping the use of Participatory Video in all its forms. We are leading practitioners in Participatory Video and we work with organisations wishing to harness Participatory Media as a community engagement, accountability and people-led development tool: https://insightshare.org 

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