El Nino a phenomenon with opportunities: learning history and valuing community assets for an empowering digital curriculum in northern Peru
Lead Research Organisation:
University of St Andrews
Department Name: Geography and Sustainable Development
Abstract
"A phenomenon with opportunities" expands the reach and enhances the impact of a prize-winning, on-line, educational innovation in environmental storytelling about the El Niño Phenomenon (ENP). This initiative was piloted in June 2019 as part of participatory qualitative data collection for AHRC project "Fishing and Farming in the Desert? A Platform for Understanding el Niño Foods System Opportunities in the Context of Climate Change in Sechura, Peru", and in response to COVID-19 restrictions on face-to-face, in person teaching in Peru. On-going research is exploring how livelihoods in poor communities have historically taken advantage of ENP rains and temporary lagoons that form in the Sechura desert. "A phenomenon with opportunities" targets secondary school students in Sechura province (northern Peru), where 61.9% of the population live in poverty. Here, the state has identified low education rates as a key dimension of poor levels of social inclusion (MIDIS 2013). Working with Peruvian NGO collaborator PRISMA, the Unidad de Gestión Educativa ([UGEL]: Sechura School Board) and a desert secondary school, Instituto Educacional Daniel Alcides Carrión, storytelling training will develop on-line, digital, and research skills for a cohort of 115 students and scale-up this experience to impact curriculum development for 154 schools and 21,059 students in the wider Sechura area. In so doing, it addresses urgent concerns about the unequal impacts of COVID-19 on learning opportunities globally. The findings and province-wide experience will be reflected upon with leading national education stakeholders via a Lima-based workshop to generate national dialogue. By conducting their own inter-generational research about El Niño, its history and livelihoods impacts, young people will learn about the cross-cutting economic, cultural and social dimensions of climate related challenges. Through tailored on-line training, students' research projects will reflect on the desert-El Niño food system and its management, including the often less-visible roles played by women. In this way students will absorb understandings of equitable resilience for their futures, as they themselves transition through their teenage years into adulthood.
To widen impact and engage a broader public, new partnerships led by PRISMA with the local museum and heritage sector will take the project's participatory practices and outcomes beyond school platforms. Museums have great potential to serve and catalyse sustainable development agendas. Yet this potential remains untapped in many provincial, non-metropolitan contexts like the arid regions of northern Peru. PRISMAs partnership with the Municipality of Sechura, an existing "Fishing and Farming in the Desert" project collaborator, will enable work with the Ethnographic Museum and Ecological Park, linking students' storytelling with museum artefacts digitisation. These will be curated for public outdoor learning and become focal points for inter-generational sharing and exposition.
Through a strategic partnership with the Royal Geographical Society, curriculum development will also target an international audience, generating a bi-lingual interactive web resource on El Niño, animated by storytelling and digital imagery produced by Sechura students and targeted at secondary and primary students in Peru and the UK. Aligned with national curricula requirements in both settings the project has the potential to generate a unique model of international curriculum dialogue grounded in equitable partnerships. The voices of the provincial, marginal, desert communities, and even less the children who grow up in them, are seldom heard in development forums. By bringing desert-El Niño livelihoods experiences to light, across generations and internationally, this impact and engagement project will raise awareness of the importance of local knowledge and help insert ENP into policy agendas as 'a Phenomenon with Opportunities'.
To widen impact and engage a broader public, new partnerships led by PRISMA with the local museum and heritage sector will take the project's participatory practices and outcomes beyond school platforms. Museums have great potential to serve and catalyse sustainable development agendas. Yet this potential remains untapped in many provincial, non-metropolitan contexts like the arid regions of northern Peru. PRISMAs partnership with the Municipality of Sechura, an existing "Fishing and Farming in the Desert" project collaborator, will enable work with the Ethnographic Museum and Ecological Park, linking students' storytelling with museum artefacts digitisation. These will be curated for public outdoor learning and become focal points for inter-generational sharing and exposition.
Through a strategic partnership with the Royal Geographical Society, curriculum development will also target an international audience, generating a bi-lingual interactive web resource on El Niño, animated by storytelling and digital imagery produced by Sechura students and targeted at secondary and primary students in Peru and the UK. Aligned with national curricula requirements in both settings the project has the potential to generate a unique model of international curriculum dialogue grounded in equitable partnerships. The voices of the provincial, marginal, desert communities, and even less the children who grow up in them, are seldom heard in development forums. By bringing desert-El Niño livelihoods experiences to light, across generations and internationally, this impact and engagement project will raise awareness of the importance of local knowledge and help insert ENP into policy agendas as 'a Phenomenon with Opportunities'.
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| Nina Laurie (Principal Investigator) | |
| Karen Brown (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Laurie N
(2023)
Translation urgency in our climate-challenged times: co-producing geographical knowledge on El Niño in Peru
in Scottish Geographical Journal
| Title | El Niño Phenomenon in Mala Vida student videos for the "Sala Fenco" |
| Description | The students of the Daniel Alcides Carrión made another set of videos explaining different areas on which the phenomenon influences them an their community, this was done to be put in the permanent exhibition in the School. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The main impact is that the videos along with other media produced by the students helped to raise awareness regarding the El Niño and its effects from the point of view of a student. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLeuM_boXWE |
| Title | Francis Law When it rains we harvest |
| Description | Commissioned art work by Frances Law on the El Nino work to show case the project's work - central feature of the Scottish Fisheries museum exhibition. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Only just launched |
| URL | https://www.eastneuknow.com/home/news/read/when-it-rains-we-harvest_528 |
| Title | Historias sobre el Niño (Stories about El Niño) |
| Description | The students of the Daniel Alcides Carrión educational institution, after a set of workshops done by the research project and its partners, made videos about different aspects of the El Niño phenomenon and how that impacts their lives, what products they can plant and other activities they can do like farming and beekeeping. drew pictures of what the El Niño phenomenon means/meant to them with the help of their teachers this images were later scanned to share them with the partners of the project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The main impact of this set of videos done by the students was that it was an input in the exhibition that was done in the Scotish fisheries museum and also in a local virtual fair where different local authorities such as the director of the Local Education Management Unit (UGEL) and a representative of the National Fund for the Development of Peruvian Education (FONDEP) were present and congratulated the project and its partners for the work that was done. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUBrvkyDClvnaccjQldKdRbCUBoAXl3wW |
| Title | Recuerdos a color (Memories in colour) |
| Description | The students of the Daniel Alcides Carrión school drew pictures of what the El Niño phenomenon means/meant to them with the help of their teachers this images were later scanned to share them with the partners of the project. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | This images were used in a virtual fair organized by the school itself that had the participation of teachers, the principal of the school, the director of the Local Education Management Unit (UGEL) and a representative of the National Fund for the Development of Peruvian Education (FONDEP) |
| URL | https://youtu.be/qVpKuKkSe6w |
| Title | Scottish Fisheries Museum Exhibition 'When ti Rains we harvest" |
| Description | A new exhibition at the Scottish Fisheries Museum is set to bust negative images of the extreme weather phenomenon El Niño, showing the fishing and farming opportunities it has brought to the Sechura Desert in Northern Peru and exploring how other communities might take a similar adaptive approach to the effects of climate change. When it Rains, We Harvest (Cuando Llueve, Cosechamos), which has opened at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, has been curated in collaboration with Museum and Gallery Studies MLitt students at the University of St Andrews. The exhibition draws on the Fenómeno de Oportunidades 'Phenomenon of Opportunities' international research project. Led by organisations on the ground in Peru and UK academia, including the University of St Andrews, the project explores how the extreme rainfall caused by this shifting band of warm water in the Pacific Ocean creates fertile land for agriculture and a lake system supporting a fishing industry in Sechura. The exhibition includes research equipment, objects, photographs and interview extracts from the project. Visitors will also see archaeological evidence from the Moche and Chimu cultures, modern-day fishing objects and contemporary artwork by Scottish artist Frances Law. The exhibition concludes with a look at the more recent challenges of climate change faced by fishing communities in both Peru and North East Fife. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | only just launched |
| URL | https://www.scotfishmuseum.org/blog/post.php?s=2022-03-04-when-it-rains-we-harvest-cuando-llueve-cos... |
| Title | The Chutuque producers' struggle for water: 5 years after El Niño in the desert. |
| Description | Video about the impact of El Niño phenomenon in the district of Chutuque trough the voices of those affected, the farmers and fishermen of the village of Chutuque, local authority of Sechura, and the fishing and agronomy engineers involved in the project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The final cut just premiered on the YouTube Channel of the project, the impacts that the research team is to raise awareness of the regional authorities regarding the lack of water in the desert areas when there is no El Niño. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLb6R7X89tE |
| Title | Video of the archaeological site of Chusis titled "Archaeological site of Chusis, a place of great treasures." |
| Description | This video was elaborated by the research project in alliance with Partner PRISMA to highlight the archaeological importance of Chusis in the context of the el Niño Phenomenon, the video looks at the archaeological evidence and the impact of the El Niño in the different location where the research project was involved. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The Impact from the video is that its promoting the local museum of Chusis, and the Archaeologist (Presenter in the video) who is a fundamental figure in the Chusis region given her involvement with the Chusis Museum since the beginning, is now involved in different areas of the project. This video has also gained the attention of local authorities that are now looking for opportunities of improving the state of the museum in coordination with the archaeologist. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ugRuwpk5Ic |
| Description | More details on project findings, outcomes and impacts can be found at https://elninophenomenon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Families have come to recognise that as a unit they are able to manage the effects of El Niño in their community in a resilient and timely manner. They are producing learning that can be deployed to help them make sense of other global crises like climate change and pandemics. Families as units have become active participants in the teaching-learning process by providing sustained evidence of how they manage climate change over time. Their experience is being included as a meaningful learning process in curricular programming in relevant school subject areas. Students express themselves more fluently because of their participation in the research. They have developed new ICT skills, incorporating them into their personal learning process via the oral histories they generated about the impacts of El Niño in their community. Students have played an active role in recovering 'at risk' community knowledge about the norther desert experience of El Niño in Peru via risk management and intergenerational knowledge-sharing workshops with community experts. Through their involvement in creating a school community museum (the 'Sala FENCO"), they have become student leaders and pioneers in managing the risks that threaten their cultural heritage. Methodologically the creation of the Sala FENCO as didactic resource has provided an interactive space for student, teachers and community members. Its audio-visual narrative includes the use of ICTs that deepen the understanding of the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon in the desert. By collecting and exhibiting information from their parents and local wise women and men students have become curators and knowledge managers. The school curriculum has served to identify important practices that have formed the cultural basis of resilience in the past, framing them as potential resources that can be used in the management of future El Niño events and moments of crises. This learning has been extended to new lines of curriculum engagement in the subject areas of Science and Technology and Education for Work. Learning from the project has been scaled up regionally. The Sechura School Board validated the contribution of academic research in constructing innovative and contextualised education strategies that emphasise the importance of the family unit as a significant depository of local knowledge. The School Board amplified the reach of these findings and scaled up learning from the research to all public and private education institution under its jurisdiction, strengthening the skills of 102 teachers in the areas of Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science and Technology, Education for Work, Art and Culture. This was recognised by the Regional Government of Piura in an Excellence Award for contributions to education. The project generated a demand in the wider population for strengthening competencies in risk management based on the new recognition that the region is a rich source of tangible and intangible heritage. In response, an intersectoral network of cultural actors was established at the level of the Province of Sechura. Training in an easy-to-apply tool for the preparation of risk management assessments for cultural heritage and the development of risk management plans was provided for local heritage workers in liaison with the office of the Ministry of Culture for the Piura Region and members of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). New spaces for dissemination and dialogue on El Niño and climate change were established between Peruvian universities and early career researchers, local influencers and community leaders. These focused on productive activities (livestock, agriculture, fishing) and aimed to validate the positive effects of El Niño experienced by the desert communities that was made visible empirically by interdisciplinary research. Learning from the project was scaled up to the national level in Peru via the award of significant national prizes. The National Education Development Programme of the Ministry of Education (FONDEP) recognised the innovative strategies implemented by the project: RECUST and Integrated Projects in the National Innovation Projects Contest in both 2021 and 2022. The second stage of the project funded by this grant was certified as 'Good Practices in Public Management' in the category Promotion of the culture and identity by the highly prestigious national Ciudadanos al Día awards. Curricula learning from the project has achieved national reach in the UK through the interactive bi lingual (Spanish-English) teaching resource hosted by the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/el-nino-phenomenon-of-opportunities/ which includes materials produced and curated by students for museum exhibitions (Sala FENCO and the Scottish Fisheries museum). It is being reflected on internationally through on-going curriculum dialogue between educators in England, Scotland and Peru. |
| Exploitation Route | Development researchers can learn from the project approach which integrates young people in education as development actors and knowledge managers in times of crisis rather than only as targets of development and sources of data and information. The project underlines the potential for embedding knowledge about how to manage risk and crises in school level education. It provides a blueprint for academic researchers, policy makers and professionals working in Peru indicating how to develop partnerships with education stakeholders operating at different scales (from the school, the Board level and nationally) and how to align objectives and outcomes with the competencies approach in the Peruvian National Curriculum. Heritage sector professionals can use the Sala FENCO example as a best practice model for engaging young people in community museums initiatives. The the Scottish Fisheries museum exhibition "when it rains we harvest' can be used as an example of how to generate understanding about climate change that draws out commonalities across the global south and north. Secondary school teachers in the UK can use the material in RGS teaching resource https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/el-nino-phenomenon-of-opportunities/ to teach about climate change, heritage and development and aligning the resource the distinct education curricula of the devolved administrations in a range of subjects including Geography, Environmental Science, Social Studies, and Spanish and cross cutting agendas on sustainability. It can also be used to align the materials with the International Baccalaureate delivered in international school settings globally. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Creative Economy,Education,Environment,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://elninophenomenon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Research findings, data and engagement with the research team in Peru and St Andrews were used to develop a museum exhibition hosted by the Scottish Fisheries Museum that aim to connect the global world to the local landscape of Fife through art and academic research, while also spotlighting climate change through its impact on the fishing industry in both Piura and North East Fife. This involved commissioning a local artist Frances Law to illustrate the exhibition. The initiative also ran a series of public engagement events before the launch to bring the community together, shine a spotlight on climate change and celebrate fishing - the industry common to Fife and Piura. https://saintsfunder.st-andrews.ac.uk/p/when-it-rains/ Findings have been used in: a curriculum exchange workshop between UK education specialist, the School Board in Sechura and representative from FONDEP; Peruvian and Guatemalan exchange 'Making museums productive spaces for climate adaptation' targeting a cross- sector local actors in Sechura (tourism, heritage workers, local businesses, the Municipal government and Chusis Archeological site). They were used as an example best practice in public policy nationally in Peru by the Cuidados al Dia (today's citizens) awards process and by the Regional government of Piura in its 'Day of Excellence' for their contribution to the education sector in the region. Following the local elections at the end of 2022 findings were used for in person briefings with the new incoming local authorities (the Municipal Mayor for the Province of Sechura and the District Mayors in Bernal, Cristo Nos Valga) on the role that heritage can play in managing the El Nino phenomenon. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Consultant pedagogic training for the teachers of the Daniel Alcides Carrión school. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The impacts of the set of workshops developed a applied in the Daniel Alcides Carrión school have a big influence in the work that the participant teachers did, this was showed in the virtual fair organized by the school and the Local Education Management Unit where they presented their own educational projects that were well received by the National Fund for the Development of Peruvian Education (FONDEP) that was also present on that fair. |
| Description | Curriculum exchange and discussion between Sechura and Scotland. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The main impact of this exchange was the commonalities were found in both country's curricula which were used to develop the joint curriculum and to scale this to a national level. |
| Description | Development of the social and leadership skills on the students of the Daniel Alcides Carrión School |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The series of activities done by PRISMA and the research project in person and virtually, contributed with the strengthening of the social and leadership abilities of the students and teachers of the Daniel Alcides Carrión school along with the parents which in turn influenced the way that Daniel Alcides Carrión school along with the UGEL viewed "Soft skill development" in their students and highlighted the importance in the development of these capacities. |
| Description | Invitation to the Workshop: "Identification of Public Problems, Gaps and Potentialities in the Territory - Process of Formulation of the Concerted Regional Development Plan 2023 - 2033". |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid032yvdceVBfoSu5XksfG9GGND1dqCRB2CpyhVxMUma4hfiVCrXm... |
| Description | Participation of the "Mesa Multisectorial de Sechura" Sechura Multisectoral Roundtable. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Members of the workgroup implemented a series of workshops where psychologists and other specialists worked to strengthen the mental health of the community of Mala Vida. |
| URL | https://www.ugelsechura.edu.pe/web/blog/2022/07/15/feria-de-salud-mental-en-sechura/ |
| Description | Project partners gained new skills and knowledge to work in Covid 19 conditions |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Thanks to the second batch of workshops to develop the capacities of the students and teachers in Mala Vida, and also to the tablets also provided by the project, the students and teachers were able to access education public services in an area with very limited internet connectivity and knowledge about the use of technological devices for learning. In total this second phase of the project gave tablets to 43 students of secondary school and worked with more than 50 students in their capacity development. |
| Description | Impact & Innovation Main Fund |
| Amount | £9,607 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AGS9-IIFALD |
| Organisation | University of St Andrews |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Description | Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship |
| Amount | £192,116 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MRF-2022-065 |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | Museuem Exhibition "Whenit rains we harvest" |
| Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Fisheries Museum |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Description | University of St Andrews SGC GCRF Music (The role of intangible cultural heritage through history in the development of coastal communities -Tanzania and Scotland with additional scoping activities in Peru) |
| Amount | £28,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Piura |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Peru |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Title | Inter-generational oral history videos on El Nino |
| Description | Produced by secondary school children at partner school in Sechura who leapt how to produce and handle and edit videos taken in the field to describe how El Nnoi has been seen by their community and family over time. Posted on the School's website designed purposely to host this data. Subtitles added in English by the team for use in English. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These videos with English subtitles form a central piece in the Scottish Fisheries Museum exhibition "When it rains we harvest"based on the project and launched 11th March through until June 2022 |
| Title | Royal Geographical Society Teaching Resource: 'El Niño: Phenomenon of Opportunities' |
| Description | Bi lingual teaching resource (Spanish and English) for secondary school teachers and students |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | It is early days, it was only launched with teachers in December 2022 via the RGS so impacts are yet to come. |
| URL | https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/el-nino-phenomenon-of-opportunities/ |
| Description | PRISMA & St Andrews University project partnership |
| Organisation | PRISMA ONG |
| Country | Peru |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The PI Nina Laurie and Co-I Karen Brown contributed with their previous experience working on research, they gave the know-how that was critical to the project's objectives and methodology that PRISMA in turn made it a reality in the fieldwork. Thanks to this expertise PRISMA has boosted its visibility within the local and regional institutions in the Piura area where it has received recognition for the work they have done based on the work plan and objectives determined by the research team. On the other hand, the research that has been carried out by the research team will server as an input for future projects and partnerships that PRISMA will propose to local institutions such as FOSPIBAY. |
| Collaborator Contribution | PRISMA brought critical information for project planning and its development thanks to their deep knowledge of the Sechura area, the details of collaborative work in the area, and their extensive knowledge in project management, a clear example of this was the work carried out during the Covid 19 Pandemic that modified day to day work in Peru for months, thanks to the help of PRISMA the project not only did not stop but found innovative ways to continue working and explored different opportunities that arose because of this. On the other hand, the well known high reputation of PRISMA and the position of well respected institution opened new doors to work with collaborators such as the UGEL Sechura, the Municipality of Sechura, the Daniel Alcides Carrión school and internal and external consultants that facilitated the work. |
| Impact | The main outcomes of this partnership is that PRISMA has gained more visibility in the area thanks to the awards and recognition that the project has received in the last months by government institutions. Also, this partnership has produced valuable research data that PRISMA can use to apply for new projects on the area. On the other hand, this partnership gave a new set of skills to the students and teachers in the Daniel Alcides Carrion School through workshops that will empower them to be new generation of researchers from the region. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | PRISMA & University Of Piura (UDEP) collaboration for museum studies. |
| Organisation | University of Piura |
| Country | Peru |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team and the other partner PRISMA contributed with the knowledge that they have regarding collaborative work and also gave access to important data that the research team has produced. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UDEP brought their knowledge and expertise on museums, Cristina Vargas is the main museologist on the Piura region and is an expert in museums in the whole region. |
| Impact | The main outputs of this collaboration are still being worked on but as preliminary outputs we have the "Memories in colour" works that have been done with the students of the Daniel Alcidez Carrion school where the students drew pictures of what the El Niño phenomenon means to them and from this among with other works of the students a virtual fair was made that had the participation of different local authorities such as the director of the Local Education Management Unit and the National Fund for the Development of Peruvian Education (FONDEP) regional representative aswell as t.he teachers and principal of the Daniel Alcides Carrión school. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | PRISMA & University Of Piura (UDEP) collaboration for music project. |
| Organisation | University of Piura |
| Country | Peru |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The project's research team contributed in the access to data that the project has collected during the time that research has been carried on in Piura and the access to intellectual input by an international team of researchers that includes St. Andrews and Tanzania. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The university of Piura contributed with their expertise and intellectual input in the form of 2 undergraduate thesis students and their thesis supervisor for the research of the association of traditional music with the fishing practice in the lakes and the sea. |
| Impact | The full set of outputs of this collaboration are yet to be seen given that the research is still underway, but as preliminary outputs we have the valuable research data that its being produced that other partners of the project can also see and use for the work that they are also doing for the project |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Scottish Fisheries Museum and MLitt in Museums Studies University of St Andrews Exhibition when it rains we harvest |
| Organisation | Scottish Fisheries Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Interdisciplinary Expertise on El Nino in Peru, sourcing and providing information and artefacts, providing digital video copy and transition from Spanish, subtitling service, copy editing and revving exhibition materials. speaking at launch event. Co supervising student curators |
| Collaborator Contribution | Museum space, supervision time from Museum direct, student curators, Art History school curator leadership |
| Impact | Current exhibition when it rains we harvest |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | "Return to school classes" Campaing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This activity was made in collaboration with PRISMA and the Local Education Management Unit (UGEL) of Sechura, it had the aim to solve the absence of the students in the schools of Mala Vida including the Daniel Alcides Carrión school where the project has been working. To solve this, one of the main outputs was to create an audio and video spot to be transmitted in local tv, radio, and speakers in the communities to convince the students to come back to their classrooms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ugelsechura.edu.pe/web/blog/2022/07/12/todos-volvemos-seguros-y-seguras-a-clases/ |
| Description | Briefing for new local government authorities (Mayor of the Province of Sechura) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 3 members of the NGO partner PRISMA, visiting museum expert from Guatemala and PI Nina Laurie met with the mayor and her assistant in the first few days of her undertaking her new office to present the project findings and final report. This sparked questions about the project and follow on on-going work at Chusis archeological site, it also fed into the design for a new large proposal to a local funder to include the theme of culture and identity to work with the Sechura school board. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Briefing visit for the new Mayor of Bernal District |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 2 members of the NGO partner PRISMA, vand PI Nina Laurie met with the mayor and her assistant in the first few days of him undertaking his new office to present the project findings and final report. Bernal District had been a formal collaborator under the pervious, administration. This sparked questions about the project and follow on project and an invitation to attend the Bernal Carnival to celebrate local culture and heritage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | End of project briefing with the Director of the Sechura School Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 2 members of the NGO partner PRISMA and PI Nina Laurie met with the Director to present the project findings and final report and celebrate success in receiving an joint excellence from the Piura Regional Government for the collaboration between the project and the School Board. This sparked questions about the future of the project project findings and fed into the design for a new large proposal to a local funder to include the theme of culture and identity to work with the School board. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Forum "El Niño, a phenomenon with opportunities". |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of this event was the presentation of the different results of the project trough the members of the team, in an event that would allow participation of the general public and the authorities. So, this event had the presentation of Project PI, Nina Laurie and the Research assistants from UDEP and FDA, at the same time the panellists sections consisted of a representative of the provincial mayor of Sechura, the director of the Local Education Management Unit (UGEL) of Sechura, a representative of the National Fund for the Development of Peruvian Education, the Manager of the Economic Development Area of the municipality of Sechura, the district mayor of Cristo Nos Valga, the president of the Sechura Headquarters of the Engineers College and the president of the local Irrigation Board Committee. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/UGELSechura/videos/372721171245161/ |
| Description | Inauguration of a hall-museum on the "El Niño" Phenomenon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The research project Phenomenon with opportunities installed a hall-museum in the Daniel Alcides Carrión school in Mala Vida, this room show trough photos, videos murals and illustrations, made the students of this school, the benefits of the El Niño Phenomenon. This event was attended by different authorities and representatives of different institutions and allies of the project such as representatives of the UDEP (University of Piura) PRISMA NGO, Mayor of Cristo Nos Valga Mr. Alejandro Tume, Ms.Diana Chunga Deputy Manager of Social Programmes of the Provincial Municipality of Sechura, Director of UGEL (Local Education Management Unit) Sechura Ms. Marcela Cornejo, Principal of the Daniel Alcides Carrión school Julio Lamadrid, Iona Bell from the Univesity of St. Andrews, and Medelly Morales Mechato, Mayoress of the School Municipality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ugelsechura.edu.pe/web/blog/2022/05/26/inauguran-sala-sobre-el-fenomeno-de-el-nino/ |
| Description | Intergenerational fair with wise men and women from the community. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Residents of the Mala Vida area in Sechura participated in the Intergenerational fair: Let's Walk Together: children, adolescents and adults build and contribute to the development of our community. This intergenerational intergenerational meeting, had the objective of transferring knowledge related to El Niño phenomenon from the wise elders of the community to the younger generation of Mala Vida that belong to the Daniel Alcides Carrión educational institution, this event also had the participation of the NGO PRISMA, the Municipality of Sechura, the Local educational management unit and other local institutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.prisma.org.pe/destacados/encuentro-intergeneracional-caminemos-juntos/ |
| Description | Launch Scottish Fisheries museum exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The exbiuiton has only just been launched but has been reported on other web outputs It produced an enquiry from the Sunday post Jayne Savva Patricia-Ann Young and follow on interview - outcome TBC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/event/shipshape/event-when-it-rains-we-harvest-exhibition-s... |
| Description | Launch of Royal Geographical Society Teaching Resource: 'El Niño: Phenomenon of Opportunities' with secondary teachers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 5 secondary teachers based in England attended an invited on-line launch of the resource hosted by the RGS which sparked questions and discussions afterwards between the RGS and teachers about the best way to align this with the curricula at different stages. it has also been trialed with 150 Geography undergraduates in February 2022 and February 2023 via tutorials which sparked feedback from students and tutors on how to integrate it into the UG program and has led to sponsorship from the Geography Education Research gruop of the RGS for a panel presentation about teh resource at the RGS annual conference in September 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/el-nino-phenomenon-of-opportunities/ |
| Description | Presentation of the results of the "Comparative Study of socioemotional conditions in the return to classes" in Chulucanas. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The project organized an event for the presentation of the results of the study about the socio-emotional conditions in the return to class of 3 schools in the provinces of Sechura And Sullana, this presentation in Chulucanas had the attendance of the Local Education Management Unit of Sechura and Chulucanas aswell as the representatives of different institutions such as the municipality of Chulucanas. This presentation ended with the agreement to use the data to plan a future government intervention. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gob.pe/institucion/ugelchulucanas/noticias/644617-director-de-ugel-chulucanas-propone-in... |
| Description | Presentation of the results of the "Comparative Study of socioemotional conditions in the return to classes" in Sechura. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The project organized an event for the presentation of the results of the study about the socio-emotional conditions in the return to class of 3 schools in the provinces of Sechura And Sullana, this event had the participation of the "Multisectoral table" where different representatives of various state institutions where present. This presentation ended with the agreement of the different institutions in attendance to use it as a tool for their planning and activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/UGELSechura/photos/pcb.3366034163684971/3366032050351849 |
| Description | Presentation workshop: Inverted Colonial worlds (Durham UNiveristy) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation "Making community museums and schools productive spaces for climate adaptation. Lessons on El Niño from northern Peru" was given by Nina Laurie (University of St Andrews - UStA) on behalf of the following collaborative team: Peru: Nancy Icanaqué (Daniel Alcides Carrión School, Mala Vida, Sechura), Oliver Calle, Marie Carmen and Amanda Vasquez (PRISMA). UK: University of St Andrews - Nina Laurie (Nina. laurie@st-Andrews.ac.uk), Iona Bell, Karen Brown and Althea Davies. UCL Grace Healy. A video by Nancy Icanaqué outlining the process of co-production with school children was shown in Spanish with subtitles which sparked a discussion of the role of language and young people in decolonising approaches |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Project presentation at the Global Challenges Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The NGO PRISMA, a partner of the project, through Amanda Valdez and Maria Carmen Palacios presented the second phase of the project and some preliminary results at the Sustainable Livelihoods Symposium organized by the Global Challenges Forum (GCRF) organized by the University of St Andrews. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUJ3iep5M0M |
| Description | Project presentation in the "Changing Livelihoods Global Conversation" webinar organized by the GCRF culture hub. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Different members of the project and research team from UK and Peru presented various parts of the project in the "Changing Livelihoods Global Conversation" webinar organised by the GCRF culture hub that also had the presentations of other projects from from St. Andrews and Tanzania. This was an excellent engagement opportunity that promoted south - south dialogue around heritage and development issues and led to a futuire collaboration with Tanzania colleagues on a music project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/global-conversation-changing-livelihoods/ |
| Description | Project presentation to Sechura authorities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The project "Learning history and valuing community assets for an empowering digital curriculum in northern Peru" was presented in a ceremony that included the presence of the research group, peruvian partners and policy makers such as the Mayor of Sechura, the deputy manager for education, culture and sport of the same municipality, the director of the Local Education Management Unit (UGEL), teachers and principal of the Daniel Alcides Carrion school, teachers of the Piura University, the director of the Decentralised Directorate of Culture of Piura and others. This presentation was a key event that cemented the collaborative work with relevant policy makers in the area of Sechura which facilitated the development of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lDSvzeUrZw |
| Description | The Principal Investigator of the project Nina Laurie presented a summary of the Phenomenon of Opportunities project for the Scottish Fisheries Museum. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Principal Investigator of the project Nina Laurie presented a summary of what the project has been doing in the Sechura region, the presentation was made for the general public in the Scottish Fisheries Museums where a El Niño a phenomenon with opportunities display is taking place, showing the works of the students from the Daniel Alcides Carrión school. This presentation was also shared live in the Museum's facebook page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7TnI_XNnM0 |
| Description | Virtual fair "Reconstructing the ancestral knowledge of my community" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The virtual fair "Reconstructing the knowledge of my community" was carried out in the framework of the project "Phenomenon with opportunities" where students and teachers of the Daniel Alcides Carrión school presented the projects they designed to take advantage of the El Niño phenomenon. This event was attended by the research group in St. Andrews, the NGO PRISMA, the director of the Local Education Management Unit (UGEL) and the National Fund for the Development of Peruvian Education (FONDEP) regional representative aswell as t.he teachers and principal of the Daniel Alcides Carrión school. This meeting was crucial for the project to scale the work being done in Sechura to a regional an national level. The event was recorded and the team added English subtitles and uploaded to the project website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trJaPV7B700 |
| Description | Visit from other schools to the Daniel Alcides Carrion on site museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Other schools of the Sechura region visited the Daniel Alcidez Carrión museum to know about the intangible heritage, oral histories and students testimonies about the El Niño Phenomenon which demonstrates the impact that the on site museum has had on the region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop on Strengthening Competencies in Contextualised Learning Projects of the "Daniel Alcides Carrión" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The workshop had the main aim to socialise the integrated learning projects and digital resources on the El Niño phenomenon that the project developed and implemented in the Daniel Alcides Carrión school, with teachers in the areas of Social Sciences, Communication, Mathematics, Education for Work and Art from the UGEL Sechura. The event had the presentation of different partners of the project like presenters from the University of Piura (UDEP) and presenters from the UK like Iona Bell. The event had the support of the Local Education Management Unit (UGEL) who will certify the participants once they have completed certain criteria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/44GVZSrpaD0 |