A short term project on “Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation Revisiting Past and Looking into Future” funded by FIMI, an indigenous women’s forum, USA was implemented in 2008. The project was led by MS members Ms. Lhakpa Sherpa.
Under this project, an orientation cum training workshop on “Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation Revisiting Past and Looking into Future” was organized on 25th August 2018. This one-day training workshop was organized by Mountain Spirit with the support of FIMI (International )Indigenous Women Forum). The workshop was held at Maharajgunj, Kathmandu. There were 28 participants and 7 facilitators in total. Among them, 23 were female and 12 were male. The main objective of this one day workshop was: to orient selected indigenous members on the issue of indigenous people and climate change and to encourage the indigenous members to represents their indigenous group through their story.
In this workshop, various ideas on climate change, Indigenous Knowledge, and Indigenous People’s issues were presented by Dr. Anu Kumari Lama, Tourism Specialist, ICIMOD. Similarly, the need of looking to indigenous through gender perspective and intersectionality was explained by Dibya Gurung. Then Dr. Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa facilitated the participants to share experience regarding indigenous knowledge. Finally, the story writing techniques were explained by Jemima Sherpa through her presentation.
An exposure visit to ICIMOD Knowledge Park was organized on 1st October 2018. It was conducted to observe the methodologies displayed and learn about the range of interventions that are possible to support integrate mountain farming, income generation, and livelihood improvement approaches. There were 15 participants to visit the park.
Finally, all the stories written by the participants representing various indigenous groups were assembled and a story booklet was published in May 2019.
