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.
This is a section from an M&E pilot we did with Red Cross Tsunami Recovery Program in southern Thailand. One of the purposes of the pilot was to deploy, explore and refine methods for integrating video and participatory-video into a monitoring and evaluation process, including beneficiaries as partners in the process.
Red Cross and I were selected to present the piece at the 2010 Chicago Ethnography Conference, Ethnography Going Public.
I was later invited by American Red Cross International Services onto one of their panels at the 2011 World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Innovations Track, focusing on evidence-based program design. Someone at the Conference later blogged about the presentation and the potential for participatory video in disaster risk reduction.
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.
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.