cobracollective
The purpose of this handbook is to guide health and social care practitioners in their work with communities, based on the findings of an exploratory community mental health resilience project undertaken in Guyana with health and social care practitioners using three case study communities.
The main aim of this handbook is to promote community owned solutions by proposing approaches that respond to current and future challenges to sustainability, natural resources management and biodiversity conservation. The handbook introduces key concepts and techniques which underpin a participatory and systems approach to community engagement. Portuguese version.
The main aim of this handbook is to promote community owned solutions by proposing approaches that respond to current and future challenges to sustainability, natural resources management and biodiversity conservation. The handbook introduces key concepts and techniques which underpin a participatory and systems approach to community engagement. French version.
The main aim of this handbook is to promote community owned solutions by proposing approaches that respond to current and future challenges to sustainability, natural resources management and biodiversity conservation. The handbook introduces key concepts and techniques which underpin a participatory and systems approach to community engagement. Spanish version.
The main aim of this handbook is to promote community owned solutions by proposing approaches that respond to current and future challenges to sustainability, natural resources management and biodiversity conservation. The handbook introduces key concepts and techniques which underpin a participatory and systems approach to community engagement. English version.
Mistry, J. (2020). Rekindling the Indigenous practice of pottery in Guyana. A collaborative sketchbook. Cobra Collective, UK.
de Ville de Goyet, G., Albert, G., Buckley, A., Roberts, J., Butler, K. and Haynes, L. (2018). 33 Amerindian Tales from the North Rupununi, Guyana. Pantani Book
This book is a visual tale of local solutions to global challenges from Indigenous communities who participated in the EU funded Project COBRA. COBRA (Community Owned Best practice for sustainable Resource Adaptive management in the Guiana Shield, South America) aimed to better understand the impacts of new global policies at the local level in a region of the world known as the Guiana Shield. The project investigated how far the priorities of global environmental policies match the aspirations of Indigenous communities to thrive in their traditional homelands in a fast changing global policy climate. COBRA supported Indigenous communities to make recommendations, based on their own understandings and observations, which will be used to facilitate the establishment of strong policies in support of community owned solutions in European international and national funding mechanisms and policies.
In 2011, a partnership between Indigenous associations, academic institutions and civil society organisations launched Project COBRA. Its mission was to support Indigenous communities in the Guiana Shield of South America to identify, record and shar ...
