The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) participated in a Participatory Video Training of Facilitators held in Hungduan Ifugao on November 10-20, 2010. Fifteen (15) Indigenous people’s representatives coming from eight countries namely England, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Thailand, Nepal and the Philippines are among the participants aside from those coming from the community of Hungduan.
Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN), Insight Share, Ifugao Resource and Development Center (IRDC) and Land Is Life organized the training. Gareth Benest of Insight Share and Keidy Transfiguracion of APIYN are the main facilitators.
The training objectives are to train new set of facilitators, and for participants to make their own films and apply skills learned in their own communities. As a result of the training, it can create a film focus on REDD (Reducing Emissions from Reforestation and Degradation) with the community of Hungduan as the subject.
After inputs and discussions-exercises on the concepts of facilitation and video documentations, is the actual filming in the communities where some participants from the community of Hungduan participated in. There were five (5) films produced and screened from the 3-day final filming. Four (4) of these are done by community participants. Out of the five (5) films, the participants came up with the film on REDD- “The Lives of the Forest”.
It was a successful activity for all the participants and for the local community of Hungduan, Ifugao. Everyone had the opportunity to learn how to make their own films for their community, and gained knowledge on the possible effects of the REDD projects in the lives of Indigenous People.
(Leonard Cabloy-CDPC)
