Cobra All Projects

Participatory video for community led research
This project is working with two community groups in Reading to use participatory video to evaluate how their community-led research projects have impacted community health and wellbeing.

Community journalism in London
We are supporting community journalists in participatory video training and to make short participatory films that explore different community-led projects delivered in Euston, London.

Exploring Ocean ArtScience through the Exquisite Corpse Process
This project evaluates the art-based asynchronous process of the Exquisite Corpse method as a way of strengthening relationships in communities and inter- or transdisciplinary collaborations.

Community-led Climate Initiative
The Community-led Climate Initiative is developing and implementing a model for ensuring citizen engagement at every stage of the policy cycle: shaping ideas, policy designing, delivering practical community-led solutions and monitoring impact.

FIRE-ADAPT (Integrated fire management for climate change)
The aim of the project is to bring together expertise from across the Mediterranean Basin and Latin America for the purpose of improving our understanding of the role of Integrated Fire Management (IFM) for wildfire prevention and for enhancing natural and cultural ecosystem services.

Rights of Wetlands operationalisation for biodiversity and community resilience
This innovative project focuses on how to deliver Rights of Nature for wetlands in different country contexts, embedding the right for a wetland to function and exist through community management, legal instruments and governance frameworks.

Community Led Research Pilot (CLRP)
This project developed community-led research that is relevant and makes a difference to local areas and lives, and our role was to design an accessible training programme to support partnership working and shared learning.

Conserving nature and culture through Indigenous crafting in Guyana
This project will promote the role of crafting in maintaining Indigenous culture, identity, sustainable resource management practices and economic livelihoods in Guyana.

SMART - Landscape Sensor-based Monitoring Assessment using Remote Technologies
The aim of the project was to champion data sovereignty by transforming accessibility, control and use of environmental monitoring tools for wetland monitoring so that these can be designed, developed and sustained by communities themselves.

Strengthening fire management in the Paraná Delta, Argentina
This project aimed to describe and systematise the traditional practices of the islanders of the Paraná Delta, Argentina regarding the uses of fire, and to facilitate dialogue platforms between the different actors to discuss the positive aspects of fire and traditional knowledge.

Covid-19 impacts on Indigenous food sovereignty, livelihoods and biodiversity, Guyana
This project assessed the impacts of Covid-19 on Indigenous traditional farming, and the biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and livelihood implications.

Digital storytelling about group food growing
This project investigated the expansion of community food-growing initiatives during the Covid-19 crisis, its benefits along with the social barriers and means to overcome them, especially for more vulnerable marginalised social groups.

Content Development Partner for UN Women Second Chance Education and Vocational Training Programme
This project tested a participatory video approach to the development and contextualisation of online courses targeting the most disadvantaged women across Cameroon, Jordan, India, Mexico, Chile and Australia, in ways that aligned with their cultural and socio-economic contexts.

DETECT: Integrated Space Technology Vector Control
Working in Guyana, this project aimed to enable communities affected by malaria to have satellite, air-borne and ground-based environmental data at their fingertips, so that they could identify where mosquitoes are most likely to breed.

Increasing the resilience of biodiversity and livelihoods in Colombo’s wetlands
Working across the Metro Colombo catchment, this project used a participatory approach for identifying and strengthening community-led wetland management solutions, developing wetland monitoring and management principles to provide catchment wide governance.

Eco-hydrological Assessment of the North Rupununi Wetlands
This project carried out high resolution drone mapping of the hydrological link between the Amazon and Essequibo basins and associated wetlands in Guyana to support decision-making with regards to existing and proposed developments.

LANDMARC (LAND-use based MitigAtion for Resilient Climate pathways)
In this project on land-use based mitigation technologies, we are leading a case study in Venezuela focusing on Indigenous fire management and changing polices from fire suppression to intercultural and participative land management.

Enhancing conservation outcomes through peer-to-peer knowledge exchange, Guyana
The aim of this project was to undertake peer-to-peer knowledge exchange between protected areas Indigenous communities in Guyana, to share best practices for biodiversity conservation and to inspire communities to take action to current social-ecological challenges.

Indigenous empowerment through ceramic craft-making in Guyana
This project explored how the ceramic practice of Indigenous potters in the North Rupununi, Guyana can be enhanced to promote collective identity, self-worth and economic development.

Using Augmented Reality to foster dialogue within divided communities in Belfast
This project aimed to develop an accessible augmented reality app in order to help foster constructive dialogue and shared future building between marginalized interface communities in Belfast.

Community-based mental health resilience in Guyana
The aim of this project was to research the effectiveness of a mental health capacity building and intervention programme appropriate for low resource settings, such as Guyana, that combines insights from the social, information technology and environmental sciences.

Impact of Project Cobra
This project aimed to compile testimonials from national and international stakeholders, practitioners from civil society organisations and government officials, and Indigenous community members on the impact of Project Cobra.

Food security in Guyana, India and Ethiopia
This project engaged case study communities, civil society organisations, enterprise and governmental agencies in Guyana, Ethiopia and India to explore issues surrounding food security.

Mapping the biodiversity corridor between Amazonian and Guiana Shield watersheds
The primary aim of this project was to locate and map the hydrological link and dynamics between the Amazon and Essequibo basins.

Traditional knowledge and conservation in Guyana
This project provided policy-level guidance, capacity development and research-led experience for incorporating traditional knowledge into conservation and sustainable development decision-making, monitoring and policy in Guyana.

Training - Bonn 2016
As part of the 2016 Development Summer School, at the Department of Geography, University of Bonn, we facilitated a half day workshop on the community owned solutions approach with 30 participants.

Pantanî Blog: Indigenous Digital Storytelling
With the help of four Indigenous bloggers, this project broadcast traditional stories on the Internet to safeguard culture while sharing Indigenous wisdom with the rest of the world.

Training - Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust 2016
In February 2016, we facilitated a one-day workshop on working with stakeholders and communities to identify and share community owned solutions.

Promoting the design and implementation of a national climate change plan in Venezuela
The aim of this project was to engage Venezuelan government authorities, scientists and Indigenous leaders to integrate community owned solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change into national plans.

Indigenous solutions and protected areas management
This project explored some of the challenges and solutions of the Indigenous Patamona community of Chenapau while building capacity in techniques that would allow them to identify and discuss solutions that addressed current and future natural resource management challenges.

Training - Caracas 2015
In November 2015, we facilitated a one-day training course on how to work with stakeholders and communities to identify and share community owned solutions.

Training - Brussels 2015
In January 2015, we facilitated a one-day training course on how to work with stakeholders and communities to identify and share community owned solutions.

Community Ecodrones
The aim of this project was to to involve communities, in collaboration with local government agencies, to collect and analyse eco-drone captured imagery of local environmental monitoring.

Indigenous Fire Management
The aim of this project was to develop a case for integrating Indigenous fire practices within government fire management policy by combining existing data from experimental burns and participatory research on Indigenous land practice knowledges.

Project Krem Krem
This project aimed to explore how to integrate real-time data on traditional practices and landscape variables through the use of geographical information devices and participatory video in the Capoto-Jarina Indigenous Territory of the Xingu River catchment Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Project COBRA
The aim of Project COBRA was to enable and disseminate grassroots solutions to complex environmental management and governance problems in the Guiana Shield, South America using an action research approach.