Resilience policymaking in Nepal: giving voice to communities

尼泊尔目前正在进行一项密集的复原力政策制定进程，该国最近经历了冲突和灾害，未来也面临着环境变化带来的风险。这个开创性的项目将利用参与式视频（PV）方法，在这一过程中创造新的和具有潜在挑战性的干预措施，同时开发可能具有更广泛适用性的方法和途径。我们利用PV -一种在其他地方成功实现政策影响的创新方法-寻求解决尼泊尔在国家一级抗灾决策（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。在此过程中，该项目将寻求为那些受贫困、冲突和环境变化等多重挑战影响最严重的人提供一种与高级别决策者接触并可能影响他们的强有力方式。研究团体对他们所面临的威胁有什么看法？这些是否反映在决策者的观点和看法中？2.学习社区如何面对以前对其福祉的挑战？他们采用了哪些适应战略，可以学到什么？3.政府（国家和地方）维斯建设社区复原力方面的作用是什么？政府履行这些职责的效率如何？在三个社区与一个成熟的发展非政府组织合作，居民小组将制作短片，记录他们的经验以及对风险和复原力的看法，然后与村庄，地区和国家一级的主要受众分享和讨论。总体目标是促进和提高决策者对社区一级看法的认识，从而有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.