The follow-up on the CBHMIS program for AMREF is in progress. CBHMIS stands for: Community Based Health Management Information System.
It is a project whereby FLL teaches AMREF staff how to use participatory video as a monitor and evaluation tool. For the second time we visited the CBHMIS project in Kibwezi District in Kenya. Like the first session, the outcome is a documentary of 15 minutes. The results will be shown, once ready, on the documentary section of this website.
For now a few photo's of the AMREF crew and the surroundings.


AMREF choose the use of video reporting for monitoring and evaluation because it has an added value to the traditional mode of monitoring.
By showing footage to the target groups it will open up and promote discussion through which it enhances empowerment of individuals and communities. Video has great potential to enhance indigenous means of communication – which, like video, are primarily visual and verbal. AMREF is working in remote areas in which illiteracy is not uncommon. Video can make stories more accessible to all kinds of audiences, including the illiterate, to children or the elderly.
Besides that, videos that are being produced during M&E exercises can be used in various ways, including influencing national and local policy, as a means of communicating with donors and securing programme funding, as a way to help rolling out programmes to new areas and to share information with relevant networks such as researchers or global NGO institutes.