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Dorine Ruter [ETC Adviesgroep]

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Nov 26, 2010, 6:09:58 AM11/26/10

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Dear all,

Please find below an update form the InsightShare team on Participatory Video, sent by Chris Lunch.

Thanks, Chris for sending us the update. Personally, I am no longer involved in farmer-led documentation (as such) or PV work. I am working in the North these days mainly, Netherlands and wider Europe. In the Netherlands we’re working to inspire people to use web2.0 tools to share what they’re doing, and connect with each other to learn and work together. We organize web2.0 trainings and actively facilitate online knowledge sharing among farmers as well as policy makers and other government staff dealing with agriculture or rural development (local, regional, national), teachers, researchers, consultants, inhabitants of the countryside and so on.

In context very different from the PV and other FLD work that Pelum and Prolinnova members have been doing, since the distance between farmers, researchers and policy makers is minimal in the Netherlands. The basic idea is the same though, so help people connect, learn and work together to develop their neighborhood, region or profession.

Others on this list, please feel free to share your own current experiences and activities.

(If there’s anyone feels the value of and is willing to facilitate some dialogue through this list, please let me know. With the change in my work, I have not been able to invest any time in this.)

Best wishes,

Dorine

Dorine Rüter
ETC / Netwerk Platteland

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From: Chris Lunch [mailto:clu...@insightshare.org]
Sent: donderdag 25 november 2010 12:51
To: Dorine Ruter [ETC Foundation]
Subject: Fwd: InsightShare Participatory Video Update

Hi Dorine,

Hope all is well!

All good here!

Im sending you our latest update to see if you could forward this on to the FLD group or any others you think may be interested?

I have already sent it to the prolinnova and Ptd group

Let me know where you think it could be useful

Would love to hear nay updates from your end on any PV going on in the network

All the best

Chris

Chris Lunch

Co. Founder & Director

E: clu...@insightshare.org

T: + 33 (0)468 249627

S: chris.lunch

InsightShare

Amplify - Connect - Transform

http://insightshare.org

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From: Chris Lunch <clu...@insightshare.org>

Date: 25 November 2010 12:47:44 GMT+01:00

To: proli...@yahoogroups.com

Subject: InsightShare Participatory Video Update

Apologies for any cross posting

Dear friends,


We wanted to share with you our latest update with news about our recent Participatory Video projects around the world.

SUMMARY


1. Conversations with the Earth: Amplifying Indigenous voices
Keywords: Climate Change – Adaptation –  Traditional  Knowledge – Food Sovereignty 
Full update available in English and French: http://insightshare.org/resources/update/cwe-update-october2010

2. PV for Monitoring & Evaluation
Keywords: M&E  - Most Significant Change –  Mercy Corp - IIED -  Community Based
Adaptation – Kenya - Youth - Sport - Violence and reconciliation

3. A window to Green Agenda in the Western Balkans 
Keywords: Storytelling – Documentation - Capacity Building - Green Agenda – Western Balkans – Video Coaches

4. PV for Capacity building and Advocacy with Oxfam Canada 
Keywords: South Africa - Gender based violence – Capacity building

5. PV for Transparency Internationals Poverty & Corruption in Africa Programme 
Keywords:  Corruptions - Accountability - Capacity building

6. Community video in the Urban Hubs: Durban and Lambeth
Keywords: Facebook for capacity building –  Group building with youth, refugees,
migrants and disabled adults

7. The CWE Indigenous Hubs: Local capacity building and documenting TEK
Keywords: Capacity building – TEK - Phillippinnes - Cameroon - Peru - Panama - Arctic –
Mexico - Ethiopia 

In solidarity!


The InsightShare team

InsightShare
Amplify - Connect - Transform
www.insightshare.org
email: info at insightshare.org
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FULL VERSION -(also available online: http://insightshare.org/resources/update/newsletter-october2010)

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1. Conversations with the Earth – Amplifying Indigenous Voices

We are thrilled to share that the exhibition 'Indigenous Voices on Climate Change' will be
held at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC
(wowzers!), at the first European Bioneers conference at Findhorn Eco Village, at
UNESCO’s ICT4D conference in London and at a community festival in Oxford. Nick and
Jen (Philippines Hub) have also taken part in the  Worldly Leadership Summit
representing the network. 
We are also delighted about seeding two new Hubs in 2010/2011! Maja, Raimundo and
Sara started the capacity building process in Mexico for the Yaqui and Comcaac
communities, and Nick will soon travel to Ethiopia to begin two years work with local
partner ILCA in Gamo and Konso communities in the Southern Highlands.

To learn more about CWE, you can read the full CWE update in French or English at:
http://insightshare.org/resources/update/cwe-update-october2010
or visit the CWE website: www.conversationsearth.org


2. PV for Monitoring & Evaluation

Most Significant Change in Kenya
In May 2010, Isabelle and Neville travelled to Kenya to facilitate a PV for Most Significant
Change workshop as a way to evaluate a Mercy Corps initiative called LEAP Sport. The
latter aims to address the negative effects of the political violence following the disputed
presidential elections in 2007.

To learn more about this project,
view the photostory: http://insightshare.org/resources/photostory/leap
or watch the videos: http://insightshare.org/watch/video/thinking-change

Community Based Adaptation
Isabelle has been also working on PV for M&E in a Community Based Adaptation in Africa
(CBAA) project that aimed to train the local partners and community members in
monitoring their ability to adapt to climate change and evaluate what adaptation
strategy could best address their specific needs. This initiative was funded by the
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and International
Development Research Center (IDRC).

To learn more about this project,
view the photostory: http://insightshare.org/resources/photostory/cbaa
watch the videos: http://insightshare.org/watch/video/dumba-malawi

3. A window to Green Agenda in the Western Balkans

We were invited by Milieukontakt International to build skills in PV for storytelling in the

Green Agenda network in Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina,

Montenegro and Serbia. This has been a full year process in which a big part of our team

concentrate their energy: Chris, Isabelle, Sara, Jean-Luc and Sole. We trained video

coaches and visited the 18 communities (3 per country) to help them create their films
about the Green Agenda process, their natural and cultural values, as well as projects and
challenges to protect or improve those values. Besides those 18 local videos,
InsightShare helped create 6 national films and a regional trailer. Financially supported by PSO.

To learn more about this project:
The videos are provisionally on youtube, but still lack English subtitles,

for a preview go to: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=97EA7CF384AE2F65

keep an eye on our website for the national films and a photostory: www.insightshare.org



4. PV for Capacity building and Advocacy with Oxfam Canada 

Representatives of three Oxfam Canada partners from southern Africa came together for
a final stage in an extensive and intensive capacity-building programme this September.
Neville and Gareth from InsightShare were joined by Emily Wilson from Oxfam Canada
and Sboh from Insight eThekweni (InsightShare's Durban Hub) in Simonstown, where
they facilitated a peer review of the partners' experiments with participatory video since
the initial two week training course in February of this year.  The trainees had undertake
a variety of powerful processes within their ongoing programmes that engaged with
groups as diverse as students from Khayelitsha township, women from farms in
Stellenbosch, and sex workers from the border towns of northern Mozambique. The final
films are being reviewed for a third time by the participants before (consent allowing)
being compiled into a DVD charting the progress of the trainees and the impacts of their
participatory video interventions.  Watch this space for more details.


5. PV for Transparency Internationals Poverty & Corruption in Africa Programme 

In June 2010, in Uganda, Sara and Neville trained participants from Transparency
International's country Chapters in Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda
and Zambia. These organisations are fighting corruption in their countries, and will use
PV for empowerment of local communities, to transmit stories of corruption direct to
decision makers, and encourage accountability. Recently the local Chapters in Liberia
and Ghana have requested further training to deepen their PV practice.

To learn more about this project, 
watch a short video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r6piaUg_Ko


6. Community video in the Urban Hubs: Durban and Lambeth

The Durban Hub: Facebook for capacity building at a distance
The Durban Hub in collaboration with Oxfam (Australia) is developing a distance
learning project through postings on Facebook. They have created the network and
completed a workshop with the participants. They are now posting the new assignment
and will follow up with site visits to the five partner groups. This is an exciting experience
as it makes it possible to build capacity with partners that are geographically spread far
apart.

The Lambeth Hub: PV with youth, refugees, migrants and disabled adults 
Life at the Lambeth Hub has been surprising and exciting in the last months. Our team
has expanded with more supporters, volunteers and friends helping out and making the
Hub buzz with energy more than ever before. Since the summer we have been running
participatory video projects with two local community groups, Refugee Youth and
Nueva Generacion. We also had the pleasure to give a PV taster session to a group of
disabled adults at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sadly Sole has left us for Buenos
Aires, but we still feel her presence strong, as she keeps sharing her energy and
enthusiasm with us through Skype. We are busy plotting and planning for 2011 - and we
are happy to say that in January we will start the year with an exciting PV project with
newly arrived migrant women. 

To learn more,  visit the urban hubs pages: 
Durban: http://insightshare.org/hubs/south-africa
Lambeth: http://insightshare.org/hubs/uk


7. The CWE Indigenous Hubs: Local capacity building and documenting TEK

Peru Hub:  Documenting traditional knowledge, rituals and practises
The Peru PV team is currently working on the production of two videos: one on
medicinal plants and one on rituals around water issues. Besides these two PV projects
they are also planning to make a video on the wisdom of Andean shamans with the help
of one of the Peru Hub Elders Steering Committee members, Hipolito.

Cameroon Hub:  Promoting human rights regarding education and hygiene
Great news from 'Okani'! Following the initial funding contract with Plan Cameroon a
new agreement has been signed for a funding partnership of no less than four years to
raise awareness among the Baka communities of their rights - focussing particularly on
children's rights, inequalities in education provision and hygiene.

Panama Hub: Protecting biodiversity by fighting waste
Thanks to a fund from Land is Life the special recycling action group that was initiated by
the PV team in Kuna Yala, travelled to the Kuna Congress to present their resolution "No
to plastic in Kuna Yala territory". And with great success! The resolution was approved
and is now being executed!

Philippine Hub: Protecting the traditional forests and exploring education inequality
During the last months the Regional Hub based at APIYN (Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth
Network) has facilitated a PV project in a community in Sarawak (Malaysia) while in the
local Igorot Community Hub the PV team has been working on a video about the
education situation in the Cordillera region:
Reclaiming the forest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAF6N4LwQEg
Sangandaan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOhj_e-Uw-o

More videos from the Philippines:
Didigra – how climate change affects the culture of the indigenous peoples in the
Cordillera.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrnmtIL9Qh8
Karbengan si Fatawa – indigenous perspectives on the rights of Mother Earth (Fatawa)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ37h_h0uJ4
Muyong – indigenous perspectives on the traditional forest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVo3Pzl4_-A
Interviews with the Philippine elders’ committee members
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuuo6EwSQxU

The Arctic Hub – Encouraging community cohesion for the campaign against the tar sands
In November people from the Fort Chip community in the Athabasca region in the
Canadian Arctic will participate in a seven-day PV taster to encourage more community
cohesion and build strength of their campaign to close down the exploitation of tar
sands.

Mexico:  Seeding new PV hubs in Yaqui and Seri communities
In August Maja and Raymundo travelled to northern Mexico to facilitate a PV capacity
building training in Vicam, Sonora with the participation of representatives of the
indigenous Yaqui and Seri (Comcaac) communities. Sara joined them later for the second
stage of the training. Soon their videos will be on-line.

Ethiopia: Capacity building in the Southern Highlands
In the beginning of 2011 Nick will travel to Ethiopia to begin a two year capacity building
process with local partner ILCA in Gamo and Konso communities in the Southern
Highlands.

For more news from the Indigenous PV hubs or to learn more about the different aspects
of the CWE project, 
read the most recent CWE update: http://insightshare.org/resources/update/cwe-update-october2010
visit the hubs pages:  http://insightshare.org/hubs
or visit the CWE website: www.conversationsearth.org


In solidarity,
The InsightShare team

InsightShare
Amplify - Connect - Transform
www.insightshare.org

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