Friday, March 30, 2012: 10:40 AM-12:00 PM
Yerba Buena Salon 1-3 (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the role that first person media stories can play in gender-based violence education and policy advocacy
- Identify the value of employing participatory production strategies when working on video or radio pieces with survivors of violence.
- Identify ethical and safety/privacy considerations for working with personal narratives
A case study report about a digital storytelling initiative in Nepal, highlighting women's personal narratives of abuse as tools for public education about the country's recently adopted Domestic Violence Act. The project's participatory media methods will be explored; a series of stories will be shown; and examples of how the stories will be screened for health providers, local law enforcement agencies, and other bodies responsible for enforcing laws related to gender-based violence.