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Participatory Video gives a chance to people on the front lines of climate change to advocate for their rights, get informed, spread the word and better adapt to their new climate challenge. Here are some examples of Participatory Video projects where climate change has been explored by the groups involved.
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Philippines Training of Trainers

A training of facilitators from all around the Asian-Pacific region introduced Participatory Video to a group of indigenous youth activists, who created a film about their views on the UN REDD programme during the process.

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Themes: Indigenous Issues, Climate Change, Bio-Cultural Diversity
Category: Network Development, Capacity Building, Advocacy

Cameroon Skills Exchange

A two month 'skills exchange' saw an InsightShare associate posted to a local Baka NGO (Association Okani) in Cameroon, this summary explains more about the project, plus some links to the films made during the exchange.

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Themes: Indigenous Issues, Climate Change, Bio-Cultural Diversity
Category: Network Development, Documenting Heritage, Capacity Building

Ethiopia Participatory Media Hub Development Stage 1

Summary of a training that is the first stage in establishing a Participatory Video hub in Ethiopia.

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Themes: Indigenous Issues, Climate Change, Bio-Cultural Diversity
Category: Network Development, Capacity Building, Advocacy

Conversations With The Earth - website & exhibition info

A short PDF including information about the forthcoming exhibition for CWE at the National Museum for the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington DC and the latest incarnation of the website, due to be launched in June 2011.

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Themes: Indigenous Issues, Climate Change, Bio-Cultural Diversity

Participatory Video for Monitoring & Evaluation CASE STUDY: Community-Based Adaptation in Africa

In 2009 InsightShare was invited by IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development) to develop ways to use participatory video to monitor and evaluate climate change adaptation. Over 18 months, we held workshops in South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Malawi under the Community-Based Adaptation in Africa (CBAA) initiative.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Climate Change, Natural Resource Management
Category: Capacity Building, Community Consultation, Monitoring & Evaluation, Participatory Research

International Indigenous youth produce participatory video vs REDD

The Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN) and InsightShare in partnership with Ifugao Research and Development Center (IRDC) produced “Lives in the Forest”, a participatory video (PV) on indigenous perspective on Reduce Emission through Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism and traditional forest management.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Climate Change, Indigenous Issues
Category: Capacity Building, Network Development

Lives of the Forest

Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand

'Lives of the Forest' was created by indigenous activists from across the Asia Pacific region exploring the likely impacts of the UN's REDD programme on indigenous resources and lifestyles. It was created during a participatory video facilitator training in Ifugao (Philippines) by representatives of 15 distinct indigenous communities from 8 different countries.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Climate Change, Indigenous Issues
Category: Advocacy, Training

Los Derechos de la Pachamama (The Rights of Mother Earth)

Peru

'Los Derechos de la Pachamama' is an emotional and inspiring video that was created as a joint project between five indigenous communities in Peru with the message: 'We wish from out hearts that these rights we are proposing will be added to and that people across the world recover their harmony with our Mother Earth.'

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Climate Change, Indigenous Issues
Category: Cultural Exchanges, Network Development

Imitaasi

Mexico

In this video the Comcaac explain how Western companies came to their communities -- promising lots of money -- but causing climate change, contamination and depletion of their natural resources. The Comcaac are proud of their wisdoms on how to conserve nature and feel responsible to leave a healthy and alive Earth behind for the coming generations.

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Themes: Climate Change, Community Action, Indigenous Issues
Category: Capacity Building, Network Development

Conversations with the Earth UPDATE October 2010

Conversations with the Earth (CWE) is an indigenous-led media network that documents indigenous perspectives on climate change. This newsletter summarizes the latest news about the travels of the CWE multi-media exhibition, the local action plans of the community-owned video hubs and other developments within the growing network.

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Themes: Indigenous Issues, Climate Change, Bio-Cultural Diversity
Category: Network Development, Cultural Exchanges