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	Participatory Video	Participatory Rural Appraisal
Field	Development Studies	Anthropology
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2006	1994
Originator	Don Snowden (Fogo process, 1960s); codified by Nick and Chris Lunch (InsightShare) and Shirley White	Robert Chambers and collaborators
Type	Participatory visual research and communication method	Family of participatory field appraisal and planning methods
Seminal source	Lunch, N., & Lunch, C. (2006). Insights into Participatory Video: A Handbook for the Field. Oxford: InsightShare. ISBN: 9782940290086	Chambers, R. (1994). The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal. World Development, 22(7), 953–969.
Aliases	PV, Community Video, Video for Development, Participatory Filmmaking	PRA, Participatory Learning and Action, Participatory Rural Appraisal Methods, PLA
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Summary	Participatory Video (PV) is a set of techniques through which a group or community creates its own films to explore issues, voice concerns, communicate with each other, and advocate to outsiders. Rooted in the 1960s Fogo Island process and codified for development practice by Nick and Chris Lunch of InsightShare and by Shirley White, PV treats the camera not as the property of an outside researcher but as a tool placed in the hands of community members, so that the process of making the video — as much as the film itself — builds confidence, analysis, and collective agency.	Participatory rural appraisal is a growing family of approaches and methods that enable local people to share, enhance, and analyze their own knowledge of their lives and conditions, and to plan and act on it. Associated above all with Robert Chambers, PRA reverses the conventional research relationship: outside facilitators hand over the stick, and community members themselves do the mapping, ranking, diagramming, and analysis that drive planning and action.