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The Critical Role of Arts, Culture and Heritage in Building Food and Agricultural Resilience

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Infrastructural, high-tech, and top-down agricultural investments to address immediate food and health security needs often overshadows developing resilient food and agricultural systems, particularly in the context of climate change. This session will draw on real world examples from across the globe to explore ways that Arts, Culture, and Heritage can address issues of food and agricultural sustainability and resilience while also considering the needs of marginalised groups and transforming social inequalities. Hosted by PRAXIS in partnership with the Americas Regional Partner, Angelica Arias, Climate Heritage Network, Metropolitan Institute of Heritage-Quito, Ecuador.

Introduction to Safeguarding

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos to address various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. Its aim is to provide you with food for thought, and to help your project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in your context. In this opening video a member of the civil society organisation Galli Galli identifies some of the issues she needs to address in Nepal.

Time-bound Projects and Inclusion

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Principal Investigator Aylwyn Walsh discusses the challenge of addressing issues around safeguarding and inclusion in time-bound projects. · Can we influence adverse conditions in the home or community for our young participants? Should we try? If so, then which conditions? · How might this benefit our research? · What is the extent of any change we might effect within a time-bound project?

Inclusion: Disability

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you with food for thought, and to help your project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in your context. Colleagues from Nepal and Rwanda identify opportunities and challenges when promoting representation for people with disability on participatory projects.

Building Trust

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you with food for thought, and to help your project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in your context. Building trust is central to the ethos of much participatory research. Here, three young researchers from Kosovo discuss their feelings on disclosing personal concerns.

Signposting

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you with food for thought, and to help your project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in your context. This video looks at options for advice and expertise when referring incidents beyond your project.

Confidentiality and Reporting Structures

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you with food for thought, and to help your project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in your context. This video explores the limits of confidentiality, and what to do when they are reached.

Call for input into CTS Safeguarding Project

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We need you! If you want to express your feelings about safety, who has authority in your life and how you feel about it? If you have an idea about an output you want to create that we can support you with - get in touch!

Mental Health Expertise

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. In this video Changing the Story colleagues Linda Hoxha and Tony Cegielka discuss the extent to which individuals in designated roles need experience or training in mental health. UKCDR ask project to consider: • What training is in place for people dealing with any safeguarding issues or allegations? • How do you ensure that the project team is not being asked to go beyond its knowledge and/or experience with regard to safeguarding? • What kind of local care and support services for safeguarding are available? Are other services required?

Decolonising Knowledge

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you with food for thought, and to help your project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in your context. Two Co-investigators in Zimbabwe position safeguarding within the wider debate around decolonisation of knowledge in international development.

Establishing Safeguarding Structures in a New Project

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. In this video you'll hear Changing the Story Regional Safeguarding Lead (South East Europe) reflect on the potential impact of setting up safeguarding structures in a new project. • How do we best introduce the concepts and terminology around safeguarding? • What contextual factors affect this in a particular country or region? • How do we involve all research partners at the research design and planning stage to ensure that research questions and methodologies are contextually appropriate?.

LGBTQIA+ and Safeguarding

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you with food for thought, and to help your project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in your context. A Principal Investigator discusses a case study in which LGBT+ staff are advised by their institution to conceal their sexuality when working abroad.

Safeguarding during a Pandemic

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. • How do we make online spaces safe without intruding on personal lives at home? • What support or alternatives are we offering for those researchers whose access to workspace, equipment, reliable electricity supply or internet at home may be limited, so that they can continue to work but do so safely? • In the absence of face-to-face meetings, how are we acknowledging and catering for the different time zones in which researchers work?

Participatory Research and Safeguarding

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you with food for thought, and to help your project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in your context. An early-career researcher recounts a positive experience as a participant in a project using ‘playback theatre’ techniques, where safeguarding issues arise organically.

Building Safeguarding into Project Design

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. In this video you will hear Dr Jessica Mitchell reflect on the approach she took to safeguarding when building a network cluster. - What are the most effective mechanisms for assessing safeguarding risks collaboratively with research partners? - What is the best organisational safeguarding incident investigation process that can ensure knowledge is captured and lessons are learnt from past incidents? - What is our agreed process for how safeguarding concerns will be reported and escalated across research partnerships? - What might an effective ‘a risk level rating system’ look like, with a clear threshold for reporting to funders and regulatory bodies?

Safeguarding issues arising from conducting research

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Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you with food for thought, and to help your project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in your context. A colleague discusses his experience of conducting LGBTQI-related research in the Global South.