A Rights-Based Approach to Participatory Video

From InsightShare, this is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wishing to strengthen their work through introducing a rights-based approach to participatory video. Featuring illustrations and dynamic links to videos and photostories, this toolkit is intended to be a practical guide. It includes exercises and techniques, facilitator checklists, case studies, templates, resource lists, and copies of key human rights instruments. Explained here are core concepts such as why participatory video favours an overt rather than covert approach to helping groups shape their rights-based video messages and the importance of identifying and valuing "home-known rights" to avoid imposing lists of rights that could be perceived as alien or agitating.

The stage-by-stage descriptions include some elemental processes (e.g., the storyboard technique) and some classic games and exercises. It builds upon basic participatory video games and exercises as they are described in the handbook (accessible through the Related Summaries section, below).

The publication of this toolkit was supported by funds from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Global Human Rights Strengthening Programme (GHRSP) through the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) implemented by the UNDP on behalf of the GEF partnership of agencies.