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Filming and screening of rehabilitation work in Mpazi

Filming of the activities of HIMO (Haute Intensité de Main d’Oeuvre) in Rwanda
Context and Issue: 

The Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) - or Haute Intensité de Main d’Oeuvre (HIMO) is a unit of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) that promotes the orientation of infrastructure investments towards the creation of higher levels of productive employment and improved access to basic goods and services for the poor.
Under a service contract signed between Internews and the Delegation of the European Commission in Rwanda on the 6th of May 2008, a 25-minute documentary film was commissioned on the activities of HIMO (Haute Intensité de Main d’Oeuvre) projects funded by the European Commission in Rwanda. The main focus of the documentary was the rehabilitation work in the Mpazi ravine in Kigali, in the district of Nyarugenge in Rwanda.

The documentary was later screened via cine-mobiles in all the provinces of the country, as well as in front of the workers involved in the rehabilitation works supervised by the HIMO.

Project's activities: 

The project resulted in the preparation, production and screening of the 25-minute documentary in three languages — French, English and Kinyarwanda. The film was compressed into a DVD format. For this, the Internews team met and discussed the making of the film with the main stakeholders involved in the implementation of the HIMO’s projects: donors, government officials and managers participated in meetings where the project’s objectives were explained. They also participated in the design of their website. Journalists were trained in delivering online news and using a web-based CMS to publish their news stories online. Technicians were assisted in setting up Internet connectivity.

After discussions with the main actors, the final structure of the documentary was agreed upon with the representatives of the EC delegation. The team then initiated field research and the filming of the documentary. Questions for the interviews were sent in advance to the head of the EC delegation as well as to M. Justin Gatsinzi, representative of the co-ordinating ministry MINALOC, who acted as a spokesperson in the film.

Participants and Beneficiaries: 

At the end of June 2008, after 60 days of filming and editing, the first version of the documentary was presented to the European Commission delegation for comments and suggestions regarding the structure and the content of the film. Based on these comments and suggestions, aerial images of the ravine as well as of the other HIMO projects implemented with financial assistance from the European Commission, were taken by Internews filming crew.

Outcomes: 

A selection of images was included in the film while the whole footage was given to the Project Implementation Unit for the project library and archive. Following the same comments, the introductory part of the documentary, which presented the history of European cooperation with the ACP countries, was increased. To do this, the video archives of the European Commission Delegation in Rwanda were used for footage reflecting the various stages of European construction and cooperation between the European Union and the African continent.

As a result, by the end of July 2008 the film was finalized and accepted by the representatives of the contracting authority. Consequently the translations in English and Kinyarwanda were prepared, with subtitles, as requested in the contract.

200 CDs containing the 3 versions/languages on each copy were duplicated and given to the coordinator of the PARES project implementation unit, as well as to the EC Delegation representative. In parallel 3 miniDV tapes, containing the 3 versions, were prepared and made available for television broadcasting.

PROJECT TEAM

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