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South Asia

Effective Community Participation in Biodiversity Conservation Strategies

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Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment through Traditional Knowledge

Convergence of Village Level Institutions

Sensitization, Capacity Building and Field Survey for Data Collection and Monitoring

Construction of Innovative Watch Tower

Assisting the Community: Alternative Livelihood Measures

South Asia

Effective Community Participation in Biodiversity Conservation Strategies

Lima

Phom

Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment through Traditional Knowledge

Convergence of Village Level Institutions

Sensitization, Capacity Building and Field Survey for Data Collection and Monitoring

Construction of Innovative Watch Tower

Assisting the Community: Alternative Livelihood Measures

Basic digital skills and storytelling training

Basic training on the use of technology.

Creativity and narrative building skills.

Storytelling skills.

Digital media skills.

Video editing skills in software.

Active participation of local youths

Capacity building

Importance of local food systems documentation

Folklore and its significance in our communities

Strengthening of culture and identity is required

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Knowledge exchange, documentation and catalogue

Transmission of knowledge from elders to youths.
Local food plants are documented among youths to increase awareness about the rich biodiversity.
Through documentation, catalogues can be developed in the form of ABD books and recipe books.

Access to technology for documentation.
Strong social media presence for dissemination of information for such activities.
Interactive stories.
Podcast.
Youth seminars and workshops.

Capacity development
Knowledge for investment
Policy support

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Visit to different Food Production Systems

During the Agrobiodiversity (ABD) Walks, youths are taken to nearby biodiversity hotspots within the community. During the ABD walks, the youths and local knowledge holders collect and identify a number of species and wild food plants that make their local food production system.

One local knowledge holder from the community is involved in facilitating these visits in the food production system.
The knowledge holder identifies particular species found in the food production system.
The process is being recorded and stored in archives for future references among the youths in the community.

The youths are required to imbibe this knowledge to understand on how to further enhance our local food production systems.
There is a need to expand local youth networks to strengthen such activities.
Within the youth network there should be capacity building within the framework of such field visits for media documentation.
Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials can also be one of the major contributions towards growth and development of interest within the urban youths that can be propagated via different social media channels and field visits.

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Video Documentation skills

Training on various phases of videography is important and is the foundation. Here, training sessions with various modules keeping in mind the importance of local communities’ documentation is needed. Basic skills on the various phases of filmmaking such as story boarding, script writing, shooting and video editing are important for setting the foundation.

1. Experts on the various phases of videography to impart training.

2. Access to equipment.

3. Identification of potential yet passionate implementors who can be trained.

4. Access to stories that cover diverse topics related to culture and biodiversity, such as, indigenous peoples' food systems, traditional songs, traditional knowledge and many more.

5. Sense of ownership among the community youth who will be creating these videos.

Passionate youth from communities have the most potential. They are willing to learn to their full capacities.

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