ESAP2 Participatory Video ‘Oscar’ Competition 2015

The ESAP2 Management Agency (MA) is rewarding Social Accountability Implementing Partners (SAIPs) and other NGOs working with SA approaches and methods for their documentation and communication efforts. We will award prizes at the National SA Conference in October 2015 in three categories: Participatory Video Oscar, SAC hero, and Most Significant Change. This paper describes how you can participate in the PV Oscar competition. All PVs will be uploaded to the ESAP2 You Tube Channel.

Theme: The theme of the 2015 Oscar PV competition is ‘behavior change’. Your PV(s) will compare people who participate in the (SA) process with those who do not.

Task:

  • In order to participate in the PV Oscar competition 2015, the completed PV action plan format should be submitted before 31st May, 2015.
  • You will select oneworeda targeted by your SA project, and one of five basic public service sectors (i.e. education, health, water and sanitation, agriculture, rural roads) in which your SA project has intervened.
  • You can focus on the behavior change in one or more stakeholder groups (service users, vulnerable groups, women, service providers, sector officers, Kebele/woreda administration, elected council members, etc). If you choose just one stakeholder group, it has to be service users.
  • You will form a PV makers’ team, including 3 – 5 representatives from the selected stakeholder group(s). The PV makers’ team will conduct the whole PV process together (except editing).
  • The PV makers’ team will develop a story board and subsequently interview and film 1) people who changed through the SA process, 2) people who have dropped out or are critical about SA, and 3) people who have not yet been exposed to SA.
  • You will produce minimum 2 PVs of 5 minutes each (or 1 PV of 10 minutes), and maximum 4 PVs of 5 minutes each (or 2 PVs of 10 minutes each). As it will be difficult for the stakeholder representatives in the PV makers’ team to be involved in editing, you will organize a feedback session with them before the dialogue event.
  • Within 2-4 weeks of completing the PVs, you will show and discuss the PVs at a dialogue event with citizens, basic public service providers and local government (i.e. sector office, administration and elected council members). The event will ideally lead to action to promote SA among stakeholders that are not yet on board.

Who to interview/film?

The PV makers’ team can either choose to make a PV based on interviews and focus group discussions, or the team can choose to design and film a creative script that is based on the findings of interviews and focus group discussions. It is up to the PV makers’ team. Whatever the choice, the PV markers’ team should speak with the following people:

  1. People who are actively involved in the SA process - Useful questions:
  • What has changed in you through the SA process? Attitudes, actions?
  • What are interesting, concrete stories of behavior change in the community/facility?
  • What factors contributed to this behavior change?
  • What do you tell people who have not changed yet?
  1. People who dropped out or are critical of the SA Process - For example people who were trained in SA, but then dropped out; SA committee members who stopped being a member; or service providers who are critical about the Social Accountability process. Useful questions:
  • Why did you drop-out of the SA process?
  • What do you not like about the SA process?
  • What would be needed to make you join the SA process again?
  1. People who have not yet been involved in the SA Process – ask ordinary people on the street, or go to a facility that was not covered by your SA project. Make sure you get permission from the woreda administration for this.
  • What do you know about SA?
  • What do you think about the public basic service (specify for the sector you have chosen)? What has changed over the last year?
  • What may have contributed to this change? If no change, what can be done to improve the service?
  • What did you try to do to get better service? If you did not take any action, why not?

How can you have a better chance of winning?

Stick to the theme and task described above. Your PVs have to clearly illustrate what SA is: the quality of the SA message in your PV is more important than the quality of your PV. When your SA message is good, then the creative quality of your PV starts to count.

Participate in the ESAP2 PV makers group on Facebook to get feedback, support and answers to your questions.

You can earn bonus points by engaging in following additional activities:

  • New PVs - Regularly develop new PVs and use these to promote SA.
  • M&E - Use the PVs for monitoring and evaluation of the SA project, for instance by providing evidence of corrective action that has been taken after the community dialogues. Extra points when you integrate PV into the monitoring and evaluation system of your SA project.
  • Social media - Promote the PVs through your website, YouTube, Facebook and other social media. We will check the number of views, likes, shares etc. Extra points for interaction on social media (comments, feedback etc.)
  • PV training - Train others in how to conduct a PV process. Extra points when they integrate PV and SA into their project.

Deadlines for Participation in the PV Oscar Competition

  • Submit the completed action plan format latest 31 May 2015 to
  • Submit the completed PVs latest 31st July, 2015 – you can either hand deliver a DVD with the PV(s) to the communications unit of the ESAP2 MA, which is located on Cape Verde Street, WSA set building 2nd floor, tel: 0116634601/61. Or you can send the PV(s) using .
  • If you want to get bonus points, you must complete the bonus points format and submit the requested evidence by 31 August, 2015, to

Questions?Call Marijketel: 0929006072 or 0912628292.

Action Plan Format – PV Oscar Competition 2015

Theme: Behavior change - comparing people who participated in SA with those who did not

Questions / Answers
  1. In which woreda and sector(s) will you do the PV?
/ Woreda:
Sector:
  1. Who is the woreda coordinator, and what will be his/her role?
/ SA project coordinator in the woreda:
Role:
  1. Which stakeholder(s) will be interviewed to show behavior change:
/ (Think about the different attitudes and actions that you expect to show, before you name the stakeholders you want to interview for the PV)
Stakeholders with exemplary behavior?
Stakeholders who dropped out of the SA process, or are critical about it?
Stakeholders who were not yet involved?
  1. How many PVs will you produce? (Note that the competition requires 2 PVs of 5 minutes, or 1 PV of 10 minutes, but you can produce 4 PVs of 5 minutes or 2 PVs of 10 minutes and earn bonus points)

  1. How will the PV makers’ team be composed? (please provide numbers and names)
/ Staff from the SA project:
3-5 SA stakeholders in the woreda:
  1. What training will you give the PV makers’ team before the PV intervention starts? And how will you do this?

  1. When will the PV intervention (interviews and filming) take place?

  1. When will the PV(s) be shown in the woreda to the stakeholders (dialogue event)?

  1. What support will be provided by the SA project or by your organization?

  1. Which non-financial support would you like from ESAP2?

Bonus - points 11-14 are not mandatory, but you can earn additional points and increase your chances of winning the competition.
  1. How many PVs have you made this year, and how have you used these to promote SA?

  1. On which social media do you plan to share the PVs?

  1. Who else will you train in the use of PV for SA promotion?

  1. How will you make PV part of monitoring and evaluation of your SA project?

Important!
You will need to convince your Project Manager or Director to support the PV initiative. Please let him or her sign this form as evidence of their support.
Signed for endorsement by SA Project Manager or Director of the organization
Name:
Titel: / Date:
Signature:

Please submit this action plan format latest 31st May, 2015.

Submit to Questions?Call Marijketel: 0929006072 or 0912628292

Bonus Points Format – PV Oscar Competition 2015

Bonus category / Required activity / Your activity / Provide the following evidence
New PVs / Regularly develop new PVs / A DVD with the PVs or web-links to the PVs
Use the PVs to promote SA / A short report on the SA promotion activities using the PVs – a photo report is also accepted, as long as dates and locations are provided
M&E / Use the PVs for monitoring and evaluation of the SA project, for instance by providing evidence of corrective action that has been taken after the community dialogues. / A M&E report or project progress report which mentions your activity
Extra points when you integrate PV into the monitoring and evaluation system of your SA project. / The M&E system
Social media / Promote the PVs through your website, YouTube, Facebook and other social media. We will check the number of views, likes, shares etc. / Web-links to social media sites where you have promoted the PV
Extra points for interaction on social media (comments, feedback etc.)
PV training / Train others in how to conduct a PV process. / A short training report – a photo report is also accepted, as long as names of participants and training dates and location are provided
Extra points when they integrate PV and SA into their project. / Relevant project document(s) that show PV and SA integration

The deadline for submission of the bonus points format is 31st August, 2015.

Submit to Questions?Call Marijketel: 0929006072 or 0912628292