Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management (MEV-CAM): Participatory Video and Most Significant Change (Module A, francophone training)

Date

16 - 30 February 2022

Location

Zoom

Host

Lilian Goredema, FAO
Lilian.Goredema@fao.org

Victoria Valenzi, MEV-CAM Facilitator
Victoria.Valenzi@fao.org

Grace Hutchison, Programme Development Officer
GHutchison@insightshare.org

What is MEV-CAM?

“Making every voice count for adaptive management” (MEV-CAM) aims to promote a systemic learning-by-doing approach for monitoring and disseminating knowledge, lessons learnt, and experience. It aims to document the baseline conditions and existing sustainable land and forest management practices in the different dryland landscapes presenting it through a visual medium.

Shifting towards participatory systems that engage different stakeholders, including the local communities, in the decision-making process, was found to be better than solving acute problems on the ground immediately without any stakeholder intervention. For that reason, this initiative aims to fill that gap between stakeholders and to document the change allowing for a better project up-scaling in the future. The MEV-CAM initiative uses the participatory video approach as a powerful tool that involves a group in using video technology to create their own video message while considering their desire for social change.

MEV-CAM 2022 Timeline

Module A Participatory Video and Most Significant Change - February to March

Module B Participatory Video Facilitation - March to April

Fieldwork - May

Module C Editing and Post-Production - June

Module D Participatory Video: Capacity Building - July to December

Publish Training Manual - November

Module A: Participatory Video Facilitation

The Participatory Video and Most Significant Change (PVSMC) technique is an M&E methodology that allows participants to share their stories of change and identify the one they deem most ‘significant’. Participants then create a video story about the event. This results in an understanding of the changes that have occurred, plus which ones are most valued by participants and details on how these changes came about.

Trainees (2 representatives from each country project) in Module A will learn the following:

  • Introduction to participatory video making
  • Participatory storytelling and storyboarding
  • Participatory Learning and Action tools
  • Facilitation
  • Screenings
  • Editing
  • Ethics and consent

The training is comprised of the following:

  • 10 training sessions lasting between 1.5 - 2 hours (February-April)
  • Creative assignments and homework
  • Three 'case clinic' sessions during the fieldwork period
  • One peer-to-peer sharing event following fieldwork 

The training sessions for Module A will be held on the following dates:

February: 16th, 23rd 

March: 2nd, 4th, 9th, 16th, 30th

April: 16th, 30th


Learn more about FAO’s MEV-CAM initiative on their website


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