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>This is in reply to John Barker who asks for examples of community
>'hands-on' use of video.
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>I know  of three initiatives in Tanzania. First,  I and Dominick de Waal
>have experimented with such video for two years in Mtwara and Lindi Regions
>in the SE corner of Tanzania.  Second,  we are also, through the Forests,
>Trees and People Programme of FAO, involved in supporting pastoralist NGOs
>with collecting testimonials of land conflicts on video. Third, I know from
>Mr Wendelin Mlenge that the HASHI project in Shinyanga has been using video
>for several years for documenting local knowledge and for some kind of
>drama thing.
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>The 'Mtwara Video Centre' was established in 1994 through collaboration
>between two donor-funded projects: RIPS, a rural development programme
>supported by Finland, and the agricultural research institute at Naliendele
>supported by ODA.  We trained a handful of staff from different local
>organisations in using Hi8 camcorders and introduced video in a  number of
>participatory planning and research activites. Antti Pirskanen from Finland
>helped us to set up digital editing on Mac with Radius VVS.
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>We've been using video for documenting participatory learning exercises,
>village workshops,  farming systems research, policy lobbying, dialogue
>with donors etc.  We haven't had villagers to actually operate the
>camcorders yet. Instead we established small working groups made up of
>local people and staff from external organisations, such as extension
>officers or researchers. The original purpose was to document PRA exercises
>on video. Wherever possible  tapes were played back to the community in the
>same evening using a petrol generator. The idea was that working groups
>with community members should control editing immediately after recording.
>But this  often turned out to be difficult to organise.  Edited material
>has been copied to VHS for screening in villages and at meetings. It has
>also been stored on DAT tape for easy retrieval and re-editing.  When
>working groups screened their film they would  bring a camcorder and offer
>the audience to comment afterwards, and then they would incorporate
>additions in a new version. In this way the projects that were documented
>sometimes became synonymous with the video narrative in a very interesting
>way.  A committee of  fishermen and women  toured with their film on
>dynamite fishing first to forty coastal villages, and then to Dar Es Salaam
>where they showed it to several ministers and  government officials. They
>recorded the ministers' reactions to the show and incorporated these in the
>next version, that went on a new tour, etc. In another case, one scientist
>and one farmer met regularly  during a year both on the research station
>and in the village, and videotaped a series of short discussions on cassava
>breeding.  There are plans to use video in very many ways but the centre
>may be difficult to sustain, we'll see what becomes of it. Dominick and I
>have brought some of the material from 94-95 to Sweden  and we hope to be
>able to distribute a few subtitled samples within short.
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>The pastoralist project was also a spin-off from Mtwara.  Ndipapa Ole Ikayo
>from Ngorongoro participated in a  training course in Mtwara organised in
>collaboration with the Tanzanian FTPP network. In December 1995 he and
>Geoff Taylor recorded 20 hours of material from six traditional meetings in
>Maasai communities within the Ngorongoro conservation area at a time when
>the conservation authority was circulating a draft management plan for the
>conservation area for residents' comments.  We edited and subtitled a fifty
>minutes long version of this material in Sweden and by now tapes will
>probably have been passed on to traditional leaders who will use them in
>negotiations with authorities and donors.  Ole Ikayo will continue to
>record the planning process from the perspective of the residents and he
>has also offered the authorities to help them present their intentions with
>the management plan in a Maa-language video.
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>I can provide more information on these projects on request. I have just
>come back from Mtwara and I don't have a media background so I really don't
>know what is going on elsewhere. But reflecting on our experiences  I find
>Over to some of my questions.   Who else is doing  similar things in
>Africa,  particularly Kenya and Uganda?  Any organisation willing to
>co-finance a workshop for exchange of experiences? A video centre in the
>North of Tanzania? An experiment with mobile DV editing in the field?
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>Lars Johansson
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>Ys=3DE4terv=3DE4gen 2
>S-182 63 Djursholm
>Sweden
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>Phone: +46 8 755 9685 and +46 8 755 5678
>Email: lars.johansson@pi.se
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