The Users' Guide to the Compilation Video

The Scenarios from the Sahel team intends, upon completion of all of the films to be produced in the context of this project, to draft a Users' Guide that is to accompany the final compilation video.
The Users' Guide will provide NGO's, CBO's and others who utilize the video with pedagogical tips on how to employ the films to optimal effect in their prevention activities in the field. The format and specific content will be determined by the teams that produce it. However, the drafting teams will be able to draw on abundant pertinent input collected during several stages of the project:
The original scenario (from the contest phase);
Detailed commentary on each winning scenario, formulated by the jurors also with the explicit intent of facilitating the production of the Users' Guide;
Pre-testing results, which might well contain valuable insights into the perspectives of the target population as well as of experts in the field;
Observations made by project partners who interface with onlookers during the shooting of the films.
The drafting of the Users' Guide will be a collaborative, highly participatory endeavor designed to foster continuity of involvement among project partners and to reinforce the capacity of local organizations in the project zone. It will take place in connection with training courses on the effective use of audio-visual materials in HIV prevention.
Thus, Scenarios from the Sahel will generate a range of mutually reinforcing products with a view to improving the quality of prevention activities in a sustainable way: top-of-the-line educational resources, specialist training and guidebooks on how to use them to maximum effect, and the execution of process-oriented activities that result in collective reflection and cooperative problem solving.