OGIEK PEOPLES' DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (OPDP): Enhancing the Culturally Embedded Storytelling Initiative through Networking, Dissemination, and Capacity-Building

The Ogiek Health Storytelling Initiative, led by the Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP), seeks to preserve traditional health practices, create ownership for the Ogiek community and create awareness on these healing practice. This initiative focuses on documenting and disseminating Ogiek health knowledge through storytelling, creating a digital repository for the documented practices and empower community members to share their health stories. While this project focuses on collecting stories, documenting practices, and disseminating this traditional knowledge on health, it is essential to extend the reach of this work beyond the immediate community to ensure the wider recognition of indigenous health practices and how we can expand notion of using traditional healing practices featuring Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK). Networking, visibility, exhibitions and disseminating the results of this initiative to a larger audience will be crucial for promoting the value of traditional knowledge and encouraging appreciation of these practices. The proposed work targets to create the visibility strategies and goals for networking, dissemination, and capacity- building that will support the ongoing success of the initiative and allow OPDP to reach a wider audience, including policymakers, health professionals, Indigenous Peoples and researchers. This work is meant to communicate the results of traditional healing practices.

Programme: Discretionary Award

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