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InsightShare works with indigenous peoples in various countries all around the globe. The subjects they have chosen to document through video include efforts for self-determination, the local effects of climate change, cultural heritage documentation and other issues for which they have harnessed video as a powerful advocacy tool. Here are some examples.
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Indigenous community from Nongtraw village show their rotational farming techniques

Fifty members of the Khasi village in Nongtraw, Meghalaya, North West India, made a video with the support of InsightShare and KSO, a local indigenous organizationas part of the project for the Indigenous Partnership for Food Sovereignty and Agrobiodiversity. The video was presented at the Terra Madre meeting in Sweden (June 17th-19th 2011) by the commuity members themselves. 

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Cultural Resiliance, Indigenous Issues
Category: Capacity Building, Documenting Heritage, Training

The Changing Climate in Gamo Highlands

Ethiopia

This video is a compilation of three videos made by community members from Doko, Ezo, Zozo and Daro Malo in the Gamo Highlands.

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Themes: Climate Change, Cultural Resiliance, Indigenous Issues

Mexico Participatory Video Hub Development Stage 1

This document about a media hub development training carried out in Vicam, Mexico in 2010, describes the the aims, outputs and successes of the training. It also includes notes on new Participatory Video games that were developed during the process.

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

Mexico Participatory Video Hub Development Stage 2

This is a document about the second stage of the training process for developing indigenous media hubs in the Yaqui and Comaac territories of Mexico.

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

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

Canada Participatory Video Project

The Participatory Video project in Fort Chipawayen worked with young Cree, Dene and Metis peoples around the changes in climate, culture and society they are facing.

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Themes: Indigenous Issues, Community Action, Bio-Cultural Diversity
Category: Network Development, Capacity Building, Advocacy

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

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