In this Insight project in Turkmenistan, community members are using video to document meetings. In this way, women, who traditionally do not attend such meetings, can watch the discussions in their own homes. The women then provide feedback and suggestions, also via video, and the films are played to the community at evening screenings, ensuring that their ideas and opinions are heard. Participatory video is also being used for community evaluations, in which the villagers film and interview each other in their own homes. Villagers, especially the women, are much more likely to speak their minds in this way.

Over the years Insight has built up an archive of filmed opinions and feedback documenting the changes that have taken place as a result of the project, and the decision-making process itself. In many ways it is a live record of the participatory process in action.

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