Participatory Video and Most Significant Change Course

Overview

Do you want to run your own Participatory Video and Most Significant Change project? This intensive three-day course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to design and facilitate your own projects.

PVMSC allows people to share their stories in a meaningful and systematic way, so that for unique qualitative data can be collected. This unfolds a useful learning process for everyone involved: communities and organisations.

Who is this course for?

• Our training and coaching supports people in using video for positive change in their work, whether in monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), impact evaluation, advocacy or intervention. As well as development practitioners, this course is perfect for academics, researchers and activists looking to develop powerful new techniques to put people at the centre of monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• We have trained hundreds of facilitators, founded numerous community video ‘hubs', and provided extensive training and consultancy for agencies and institutions. 
• This course combines Participatory Video and Most Significant Change techniques for transformational professional development for you to strengthen accountability for communities and support them in their own resilience.

What is Participatory Video?

• Participatory Video is a powerful engagement tool involving a group or community creating their own film. The principal idea is that making a video is easy and accessible, and is a uniquely effective way of bringing people together to explore issues, voice concerns and find solutions, or simply to be creative and tell stories.

What is the Most Significant Change technique?

• The Most Signficant Change technique is a qualitative, learning-based M&E method. It places stories of change first and foremost to allow the impact of interventions on beneficiaries to be assessed holistically. 

Who are InsightShare?

• InsightShare have been leading practitioners of Participatory Video since 1999. We deliver transformational projects with some of the world’s most marginalised communities, and offer pioneering consultancy services for government agencies and some of the sector’s best-known development agencies.

What you will learn

• Our expert facilitator will equip you with the first-class knowledge and skills that you need to design your own PVMSC processes
• You will leave with a solid understanding of the underlying principles of PVMSC and its use in different contexts
• You will be skilled in informed consent processes and the ethical considerations relating to all aspects of video production and post‐production
• You will have essential insights into troubleshooting challenges around the PVMSC processes