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Quick Guides explaining Rights of Wetlands in Tamil
Quick Guides explaining Rights of Wetlands in Swahili
Quick Guides explaining Rights of Wetlands in Spanish
Quick Guides explaining Rights of Wetlands in Sinhala
Quick Guides explaining Rights of Wetlands in Canadian French
Quick Guides explaining Rights of Wetlands in French
Quick Guides explaining Rights of Wetlands in Traditional Chinese
Quick Guides explaining Rights of Wetlands in Simplified Chinese
Quick Guides explaining Rights of Wetlands in Portuguese
Quick Guides explaining Rights of Wetlands in English
This report provides the findings of an 18-month project in Guyana aimed at promoting the role of crafting in maintaining Indigenous culture, sustainable resource management practices and economic livelihoods.
The Wetland Management Framework for MCWC builds on existing legislation and policies of the key government agencies, and incorporates a set of co-developed principles that have been created to help guide successful wetland management within Colombo.
The Metro Colombo urban wetland status report reviews the progress made since the Metro Colombo Wetland Management Strategy (WMS) was developed in 2016 to promote wise use and sustainable management of all wetlands within the Colombo Metropolitan Region.
The Rights of Wetlands Review is a working document that introduces Rights of Wetlands with selected examples of implementation across the world, and reviews the policy, legislation, governance, communication and management contexts of the five project countries - Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Sri Lanka and Kenya.
This report provides a highly engaging guide to the Participatory Action Research methods and the processes of digital storytelling used to explore the expansion of community food growing initiatives during the Covid-19 crisis in the UK. It showcases the key themes emerging from people’s stories and their wider policy and practical implications.
This report describes a participatory art-based engagement method and how it can be used to strengthen communities of practice and mediate in divergent stakeholder situations by surfacing values in an open, fun, emotionally engaging and non-confrontational way. It uses the example of the emerging Ocean ArtScience community of practice to highlight the need and potential of such approaches especially within transdisciplinary teams and research projects.
This review identifies good practice in traditional knowledge integration from around the world and provides recommendations for decision-makers aiming to improve the inclusion of traditional knowledge into policy and practice.
This policy review initially assesses what the level of traditional knowledge and Indigenous people’s rights integration was in Guyana up to 2017. It then reviews how the level of integration has improved in the four years (2017-2021). The first review served as the baseline and assessed the level of integration of policies, strategies, plans and, acts (hereafter referred to only as policies) in Guyana from 1999 to 2017. Since then, annual reviews were undertaken between 2018 to 2021 on the new policies published by relevant sectors in Guyana. This report brings together the results from all these reviews to illustrate the trends, patterns, and progress of integration in Guyana over four years.
This report presents work from a Darwin Initiative grant on Traditional Knowledge in Conservation in Guyana which ran from July 2017 to July 2021. The reports outlines the participatory methods used to work with Indigenous communities across Guyana to understand the current perceptions of the status of traditional knowledge from knowledge-holders themselves.
This report presents work from a Darwin Initiative grant on Traditional Knowledge in Conservation in Guyana which ran from July 2017 to July 2021. The reports outlines the use of participatory video and video-mediated dialogue to build relations between Indigenous communities and protected areas managers in Guyana.
This report presents work from a Darwin Initiative grant on Traditional Knowledge in Conservation in Guyana which ran from July 2017 to July 2021. The reports outlines community owned solutions from differetn Indigenous communities across Guyana, and how those solutions contribute to biodiversity conservation.
This policy brief describes a new multimethod approach and how it can be used to support governments, civil society as well as Indigenous peoples and local communities to advance the safeguarding of traditional knowledge and achieve progress on global biodiversity and development goals. English version.
his policy brief describes a new multimethod approach and how it can be used to support governments, civil society as well as Indigenous peoples and local communities to advance the safeguarding of traditional knowledge and achieve progress on global biodiversity and development goals. Spanish version.
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of traditional knowledge and Indigenous farming for food security in the North Rupununi, Guyana. More people turned to farming for survival and there was a resurgence in interest and reliance on traditional knowledge about farming.
Cobra Collective UK (2020). Eco-hydrological assessment of the North Rupununi Wetlands: monitoring and assessment. Report: Monitoring and Assessment
A PROJECT COBRA REPORT FOR POLICY MAKERS
This report centres on the use of scenarios in a cross-scalar analysis to help build shared understandings of potential futures. Scenarios can be used to compare the current state of a system with a number of prospective futures and provide a way for communities and other stakeholders to see how different interventions or activities may impact on people and the environment. Within the COBRA project, scenarios allow for the comparison of a wide range of international, national and local futures with a range of existing and emerging community- owned solutions.