Participatory approaches not only improve the quality of produced information, it also supports community development and environmental stewardship

Dr. KIm Baldwin gives students an overview of the Participatory GIS approach and the practical skills to empower a range of stakeholders to participate in governance in the PGIS training course.

There is a wealth of local environmental knowledge within every community

An effective participatory approach which engages all stakeholders can allow for the collection of local knowledge and the development of more holistic information – including social and economic - which may not be accessible otherwise. Participatory approaches not only improve our collective understanding of the environment, but also strengthens partnerships to allow us to better manage our resources, build local resilience and sustain livelihoods.

Training in PGIS will include learning a number of freely available communication and information sharing technologies to ensure accessibility for stakeholders.

Learn how to engage people & build partnerships so you can represent local knowledge effectively & gain widespread support for your management efforts

Knowing how to understand your community is essential for effective collaboration. This requires an assessment of your stakeholders, for planning collaboration as well as how to appropriately validate and obtain feedback to produce information that is accurate, understandable, and accessible to all relevant parties. Ultimately this process facilitates capacity-building and improves transparency, trust, and engagement in environmental management.

In this PGIS course you will learn how to best engage stakeholders and build partnerships to appropriately develop methods to collect, represent and share spatial information, that is both understandable and accessible to stakeholders while facilita…

introduction to Participatory research & collaborative mapping methods

Learn collaborative techniques so you can empower local participation

You’ll learn how environmental monitoring, management and planning initiatives can all benefit from increased community involvement. Key participatory techniques to support the collaborative collection and creation of spatial information will be covered in this course. You will learn how to apply my signature PGIS approach, including methods to effectively map and validate local environmental knowledge as well as how to communicate and widely share information to ensure access and understanding of information.

Learn how Kim has been working with CERMES, UWI to identify how drone technologies, web-mapping dashboards and analysis tools can be leveraged to quickly create information to better manage the impacts of sargassum influxes and improve adaptation efforts across the Caribbean.

lets talk about how we can work together

Dr. Kim Baldwin will train you in participatory research techniques are reviewed to support the collaborative collection, conversion and creation of spatial data.