PARTICIPATORY VIDEO PROGRAMME Participatory Video (PV) has already proven to be a useful tool for NMJD, as well as for other CSOs and local communities where they work. NMJD has used it in monitoring and generating feedback from beneficiary communities, as well as in evidence-based advocacy. The outcomes of these exercises provide the staff (programme and administrative saff) room for productive reflection and improved future planning. 

In the same vein, local communities like Foya and Boajibu have successfully used PV to bring out their problems and concerns to the public domain. Organizations like World Vision have thus become interested in working with these communities in addressing some of their expressed concerns and problems.

The amazing appetitive for PV, which we are now witnessing amongst NMJD staff and local PV groups, was as a result of capacity building trainings that NMJD organized for its staff, CSO partners and local communities. Insight facilitated the initial training in the use of PV, including editing. This training served as a Training of Trainers (ToT), with the trainees now making up the pool of local PV facilitators in Sierra Leone. The training of Animators, which followed, was organized and facilitated by the NMJD staff that attended the initial training.

Despite these successes and the bright prospects, which the future holds for PV, there are several challenges facing the organization, including resources, technical and logistical. Addressing these challenges require the concerted efforts of all the stakeholders in the PV project. The proposed activities in this concept will be useful to getting these stakeholders to better understand and appreciate their different roles. This is essential for the continuity and growth of PV work within NMJD in particular, and Sierra Leone as a whole.

2.0 RATIONALE, PURPOSE AND RELEVANCE
The implementation of the activities detailed in this concept is long overdue. The delayed implementation was caused by several factors including the non-finalization and signing of the Contract Agreement between NMJD and Insight, as well as disagreement over some aspects of the project budget. Because of this state of affairs, the training and capacity building aspect of the project, which INSIGHT was facilitating, grounded to a halt. 

However, NMJD continued to work with its Animators and local PV groups. A training programme for the Animators was developed and delivered, whilst the local PV groups were provided with technical and financial support to enable them complete their assignments. Also, whilst all of this was going on, NMJD kept CAFOD engaged to find ways of getting the process restarted. These engagements led to the lesson learning review, which Jane King of CAFOD UK facilitated.


With the intervention of Cafod, a lesson learning review was conducted. This exercise was intended to create room for stakeholders to reflect on the implementation of the PV project so far and to draw lessons that could be used in future planning. Apart from coming up with wide ranging recommendations as to how the project would be taken forward, the review also successfully addressed the sticky issues that had been an impediment to the smooth and successful implementation of the project. 

During the review, stakeholders identified and agreed on activities that should be implemented without any further delay to once again put in motion the machinery of NMJD’s PV work. For these activities to be successful, time is needed for thorough planning and thorough interrogation of the plans by NMJD, Cafod and Insight who are accompanying the process. 

It is therefore incumbent on all of the stakeholders to seize the opportunity of the new impetus, which the review has created to continue with the implementation of the project. The planned activities will not only help to further strengthen the capacity of NMJD and its local PV partners, but are also crucial to “relaunching” PV within a partnership framework for both NMJD and the wider civil society in Sierra Leone. 

3.0 OBJECTIVES
•	To peer review and critique films produced by local PV groups
•	To conduct PV refresher training for Animators and local groups
•	To conduct editing training for selected Animators
•	To hold a mini festival of films produced by local PV groups
•	To develop an organizational/national PV strategy for the next two years
•	To finalize the job descriptions and recruit the PV Local Support Team
•	To award certificates to PV trainees that successfully go through the training