Resilience Policymaking in Nepal: Giving Voice to Communities

At a workshop organised by Dr. Sarita Panday on 27 March 2019, the policy report from the project 'Resilience Policymaking in Nepal: Giving Voice to Communities' was launched.

Resilience Policymaking in Nepal: Giving Voice to Communities

From left to right: Dr. Jiban Karki, Dr. Sarita Panday, Dr. Simon Rushton, Dr. Julie Balen

The report identifies some of the key policy lessons learned in this ESRC-DFID funded project which conducted Participatory Video projects in three rural villages in Nepal.

Community members from the villages were trained to make short documentary films looking at the disaster risks their villages face, and what support they feel they need from government to better cope with future disasters.

The videos they produced were then screened to government officials and representatives of NGOs and donors at all levels of government, from the local up to the national.

This project was funded by the ESRC-DFID Development Frontiers Research Scheme (Grant Ref. ES/R000514/1).

Read the policy report (PDF: 25MB)

Watch the project videos