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Training in PV for the Human Rights Based Approach, Sidoarjo - Porong, East Java, Indonesia, July 13th to 23rd 2008

Listening to the Community’s Voices - Mainstreaming the Use of Participatory and Right Based Approach in Presenting Community’s Aspiration

To watch and listen to community’s images on screen, produced and planned on their own, provides a reflexive experience that often feeds into inspiring discussions. Practitioners and experts interested in participatory media acknowledged that community self-made media, such as film, radio or printing materials, are able to represent messages, images and perceptions of a community in their own languages, customs and environment. Some important elements may have been unseen and emotionally unidentified by a third party’s point of view. Participatory Video (PV) is a potential approach that aims to promote respect for the community’s rights for self determination while empowering the community to convey their own messages and images in their own language and culture.

Global Environment Facility-Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) and Insight UK organized a workshop to explore applications of Participatory Video in the Right Based Approach among indigenous peoples’ organizations, community groups and community-video practitioners in South East Asia. This workshop explored how to translate the UN values in respecting diversity and direct representation by the communities to access decision making process in development. With support from UNDP-HRB, GEF SGP, Insight UK facilitated a PV and Human Rights Based Approach workshop in collaboration with UPLINK and Yayasan Kaliandra from 13-22 July 2008 in East Java. The trainees then worked worked with three communities affected by the Lapoindo mudflow in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java. The trainees helped the community members to make their own video messages and the films were screened alongside a film about the process in Pasar Baru refugee shelter on 20 July 2008 and in TIM, Jakarta on 23 July 2008.

To watch the films made click on the images below

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To accompany the films there is also a gallery of photographs.

Field Work

Further information about the mud flow disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidoarjo_mud_flow

www.hotmudflow.wordpress.com

Meet the initial participants of the network in this quick disappearing video!

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