20TDRAEM861 - Indigenous Climate Change Observation Network – building capacity for mobilizing Indigenous knowledge of fire for climate change adaptation.

Alberta Environment and Parks is working with four Indigenous communities to enhance local capacity to use participatory video methodology for mobilizing Indigenous knowledge of changing fire regimes. This contract will be working collaboratively building activities for mobilizing Indigenous knowledge (e.g., training, knowledge sharing) to align with communities’ own priorities in community-based monitoring and research related to climate change adaptation and resilience.

1. Enhance capacity to mobilize Indigenous knowledge through developing and delivering hands on training and tools.

2. Recruit individuals to participate in training activities.

3. Create opportunities for inter-generational knowledge transfer as part of training (i.e. Elder-youth dialogues).

4. Test a train-the-trainer model to enable transfer of skills to other community members.