Resilience policymaking in Nepal: giving voice to communities

尼泊尔目前正在进行密集的复原力政策制定进程，这个国家最近有过冲突和灾难的历史，也面临着环境变化造成的未来风险。这一开创性项目将利用参与式视频(PV)方法在这一过程中创建新的、可能具有挑战性的干预措施，同时开发可能具有更广泛适用性的方法和途径。利用在其他地方已成功实现政策影响的创新方法，我们寻求解决尼泊尔国家一级的复原力政策制定(在国际捐助者和专家的支持下进行)与社区一级的看法和期望之间存在的差距。通过这样做，该项目将寻求为那些受贫困、冲突和环境变化的重叠挑战影响最大的人提供一种强有力的方式来接触-并潜在地影响-高层政策制定者。该项目将特别审查：1.研究社区自己对他们面临的威胁的看法是什么？这些是否反映在政策制定者的观点和看法中？2.研究社区以前是如何面对其福祉的挑战的？他们采用了什么适应策略，可以学到什么？3.在建设社区复原力方面，政府(国家和地方)被认为/确定的角色是什么？人们认为政府在履行这些角色方面有多有效？与一个成熟的发展非政府组织一起在三个社区工作，一小群居民将制作短片，捕捉他们的经验和对风险和复原力的看法，然后与村、区和国家各级的主要受众分享和讨论。总体目标是促进和改善政策制定者对社区一级的看法的认识，从而可能开辟新的政策方向、想法和机会。

An intensive resilience policy-making process is currently underway in Nepal, a country with a recent history of conflict and disaster that also faces future risks resulting from environmental change. This ground-breaking project will utilise a participatory video (PV) approach to create new and potentially challenging interventions in that process, whilst simultaneously developing methods and approaches that could have broader applicability. Using PV - an innovative methodology that has successfully achieved policy impact elsewhere - we seek to address the gap that exists in Nepal between national-level resilience policy-making (undertaken with the support of international donors and experts) and community-level perceptions and expectations. In so doing, the project will seek to give those most-affected by the overlapping challenges of poverty, conflict and environmental change a powerful way to engage with - and potentially influence - high-level policymakers.In particular the project will examine:1. What are the study communities' own perceptions of the threats they face? Are these reflected in the views and perceptions of policymakers?2. How have the study communities faced previous challenges to their wellbeing? What adaptation strategies have they employed and what can be learned?3. What are the perceived/identified roles of government (national and local) vis a vis building community resilience? How effectively is government seen to be fulfilling those roles? Working in three communities alongside a well-established development NGO, small groups of residents will produce short films capturing their experiences and perceptions of risk and resilience that will then be shared and discussed with key audiences at the village, District and national levels. The overall aim is to facilitate and improve the sensitization of policymakers to community-level perceptions, thereby potentially opening up new policy directions, ideas and opportunities.