Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Practical Research Methods in International Development @ SAIS

Professor Raul Roman invited me to his class at SAIS (School for Advanced International Studies), Johns Hopkins University, to present and discuss our work with video in research and evaluation.

The in-class assignment consisted of a case-study about Build Change, an NGO that focuses on earthquake resistant construction, about to launch in Haiti. Students needed to develop a research and evaluation plan that integrated video.

Professor and Students… quite impressive. And we had a lot of fun.

 
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Beneficiary Accountability

This is a section from an M&E pilot we did with American Red Cross Tsunami Recovery Program. We submitted and were selected to present the piece at the 2010 Chicago Ethnography Conference… Ethnography Going Public.

 
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Population Council

Here’s an excerpt of a series we did for Pop Council’s Frontiers project. Maryam Sheikh Abdi spent a morning describing her project, the religious approach she developed as the basis to work against the practice of female cutting, and her own experiences.

 
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Perspectives on the Private Sector in Public Health

Here’s a short version of a piece we did for a USAID project, the Private Sector Partnerships Project-One (PSP-One). Public health experts discuss their experiences working with the private sector.

 
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Pins and Holes

We encourage clients to start working with video themselves no matter how frustrating it might be at first. And they know we’re always there to guide and support. For example, an email from a client…

“Honey,

I understand that the pins go to the holes, but if the pins are INSIDE
the core box, and the holes are also INSIDE the other box, so that
neither the pins nor the holes come out, I guess there is something
wrong…

Attached, a clarifying picture…”

(this is a picture… there is no video.)

 
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Stakeholder Inclusion

Participants speak to the importance of youth participation in the design, management, implementation and evaluation of youth-focused programs. This clip comes from the UNFPA African Youth Alliance M&E Video Report. Filming was done by in-country youth teams. Editing and support provided by Quimera.

 
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Monday, June 11th, 2007

GSA Office of Applied Science

After finishing up one of our projects with Kevin and the Workplace Program we decided to do some impromptu interviews around GSA headquarters. This is the opening segment to the video.

 
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Risotto

Opening segment to the “Taste of Risotto” cooking lesson with Todd Gray. We thought a bit of “man on the street” in DC would be a great addition… and it was. Margaret was fantastic.

 
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Friday, March 30th, 2007

A Taste of Equinox

Our concepts apply to restaurants and with a great interest in the culinary arts we wanted to add that industry to our portfolio.

 
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Monday, March 19th, 2007

Global Health Council

After being trained to interview and use video cameras at the 2004 Conference the team offers their perceptions.

 
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Monday, March 19th, 2007

Appleseed Foundation

Presents the Foundation, mission, evolution, impact, benefits from involvement. Initially created for the 10th year board meeting though planned for marketing and recruitment activites.

 
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Monday, March 19th, 2007

United Nations Population Fund

Discusses video as a tool in African Youth Alliance Monitoring and Evaluation Report.

Field footage produced by in-country youth teams, web-based support and editing by Quimera.

 
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Monday, March 19th, 2007

Arthur Andersen

While piloting participatory video methodologies the video documents organizational change at a professional services firm one year after move-in to a radically different environment.

All footage captured by the employees of the firm.

 
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Monday, March 19th, 2007

Latin American Youth Center, Washington, DC

Reports on project, strategy, creation of the team’s training video, community training, and experiences. A “The Making Of” project video.

 
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Monday, March 19th, 2007

United Nations Population Fund

Introduces the project and team filmed during week-long meeting; used in advocacy, marketing, fundraising and partnership development; compantion to the in-depth meeting proceedings video.

 
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