The role and importance of community-based forest monitoring

A short animation on community-based forest monitoring by ForestCOMPASS.org, an online resource hub bringing together case studies, resources, and analysis on community-based forest monitoring..

Working together to monitor Lama Lama wetlands

A community-led collaborative research project has improved the capacity of the Lama Lama Rangers to monitor wetlands on their country. Working together, the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Limited (NAILSMA), South Cape York Catchments (SCYC), and the Lama Lama Rangers have developed a rapid assessment method, allowing them to monitor more wetlands more often.

Participatory Carbon Monitoring - Viet Nam

Year of production: 2007

Running Time: 8:10 min

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A short video on Participatory Carbon Monitoring in Viet Nam

Community Based Monitoring in the Indian context

Community Based Monitoring as a social acountability tool

Part 1.

This video is on Community Based Monitoring (CBM) used as a social accountability tool. The tool is being documented. A socially excluded community use Community Based Monitoring to track linkage to the most basic of their rights and entitlements continuously and over a period of time. The audio-visual documentation aim to help to share the process of the use of tool in an interesting manner and facilitate replication.

Surui Forest Carbon Project - Community Forest Monitoring

The Surui people in the Amazon rainforest are using Android phones with Open Data Kit to monitor carbon stocks in their forest to obtain credits from the carbon marketplace. Google Earth Engine will help monitor deforestation.

Participatory 3D Modelling: a method for improving grassroots management of natural resources

Year of production: 2007

Running Time: 6:41 min

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Finn Danielsen presentation

Finn Danielsen presentation

Finn Danielsen presentation

Finn Danielsen from the Monitoring Matters network explain...

Motivation for Participating in Volunteer Activities

Motivation for Participating in Volunteer Activities: Hooking Citizens into Water Quality Monitoring

In Finland, the gathering of information about water systems has been heavily dependent on public organizations. However, decreasing resources have emphasized a need to find new cost effective ways to produce information. The monitoring strategy of the Ministry of the Environment in Finland has defined strategic targets for the gathering, storage and utilization of environmental data up to the year 2020. In this strategy the voluntary work of citizens is raised as one potential resource in supplementing the official water quality monitoring. At the moment, the involvement of citizens is still in its infancy. An urgent need is highlighted for creating a deeper understanding of citizens' motives in participating in voluntary pro-environmental activities. An online survey was used for generating new understanding why people participate in water quality monitoring activities, what motivates them, what kind of experiences people have from the current activities, and what kind of barriers they face. 

An Introduction to California's Clean Water Team and Citizen Monitoring

This video is from a webinar presented to the California Water Quality Monitoring Collaboration Network on July 22, 2009
With a good general introduction to citizen science.
 

Introduction to Participatory Methods - Moving Beyond Surveys

This one-hour webinar provides an introduction to the theoretical basis and practical application of participatory evaluation methods. You will learn about: how popular education informed the development of participatory evaluation, the difference between convention, participatory, and empowerment evaluation methods, and the core principles of participatory methods (interactive, integrated, empowerment oriented). The webinar will focus on using participatory methods to measure knowledge, skill and attitudes. The participatory methods that will be covered in this webinar include card sorting, attitude thermometers, labels, stickers and dots, cooperative interviewing, mapping, observations and skill demonstrations.

By the end of this webinar, participants will:

* Be familiar with the theoretical background behind participatory methods
* Be able to identify strengths and limitations of using participatory methods
* Be able to identify possible participatory methods for each of three different types of measurements
* Have confidence to select appropriate participatory methods for their own program

Senegal Gandiol Participatory Natural Resource Management

Year of production: 2007

Running Time: 7:26 min

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Knowledge and cultural transmission in Kenyan participatory mapping

Director of Secretariat at IPACC, elaborates on intergenerational ecological knowledge transmission in Participatory 3-dimensional modelling (P3DM). Crawhall discusses his observations on intergenerational interaction when the Ogiek community of Nessuit, Kenya built a geo-referenced model of their mountain forest landscape in 2006.