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Local communities are often best placed to understand how to live in harmony with their environment. The following videos, articles, photostories and case studies are examples of different communities around the world using Participatory Video to organise, mobilise and express themselves in order to put local knowledge at the centre of natural resource management.
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Himalayan Voices (compilation)

India, Pakistan, Tibet

 Natural Resource Management in the Himalayan/Hindu Kush Regions

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Themes: Climate Change, Natural Resource Management
Category: Participatory Research

New ICT Routes to Climate Change Adaptation Case Study: PV M&E

Commissioned case study prepared for the Centre for Development Informatics, University of Manchester, UK, for their Climate Change, Innovation & ICTs Project.

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

Participatory Video for Monitoring & Evaluation in Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change

InsightShare presented a PV M&E case study in the Knowledge Management Impact Challenge and was selected as one of the top case studies, participating in the UN Conference.

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

Participatory video for monitoring and evaluation: community-based adaptation in Africa

InsightShare and IIED worked together during 2009 and 2010 in an action research project called Community-Based Adaptation in Africa, using participatory video for monitoring and evaluation.

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

How wide are the ripples? From local participation to international organisational learning

Soledad Muniz, InsightShare Associate, has contributed with two articles in the PLA 63 How wide are the ripples? From local participation to international organisational learning: 'Western Balkans Green Agenda, local storytelling through participatory video making', in the section 'Making Sense'; and 'InsightShare's global network of community video hubs' in the section 'Structures, mechanisms and spaces'.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Community Action, Natural Resource Management
Category: Advocacy, Capacity Building, Network Development

A window to the Green Agenda in the Western Balkans

Working in 6 Balkan countries MilieuKontakt and Kocka implemented a participatory process of local sustainable development called 'The Green Agenda'. Between November 2009 and October 2010 InsightShare facilitators visited the Green Agenda working groups in Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia to introduce participatory video as a way to tell their stories. This is the story of the workshops...

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Community Action, Natural Resource Management
Category: Training

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

Community Based Adaptation in Africa

Some of the poorest people in the world are already coping with a changing climate. InsightShare travelled to Kenya, Zimbabwe and Malawi to facilitate three Participatory Video for Monitoring and Evaluation workshops. The workshops were to help the local partner organisation and community members keep track of ("Monitor") their ability to cope with changes in the climate and decide together (evaluate) what type of adaptation strategy they thought best for them.

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

A window to the Green Agenda in the Western Balkans

Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia

This video was created as a regional compilation of “A window to the Green Agenda in the Western Balkans, local storytelling through Participatory Video” project.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Community Action, Natural Resource Management
Category: Capacity Building, Network Development, Training

Climate Change in Dumba Village

Malawi

 In Dumba village, the seasons have changed beyond recognition. When rains are meant to come, villagers are facing drought, when harvest traditionally used to occur, floods from the river nearby sweep everything away. People are resorting to traditional foods, migration, old and new crop varieties and community support to survive.

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Themes: Bio-Cultural Diversity, Climate Change, Natural Resource Management
Category: Monitoring & Evaluation