Bridging Waters, Bridging Worlds
Bridging Waters, Bridging Worlds: Co-designing Indigenous-led Water Governance Frameworks among Indigenous Communities in the Peruvian Amazon and Western Canada
This international, interdisciplinary collaboration brings together researchers and Indigenous communities in Canada and Peru. The goal of the project is to develop Indigenous-led strategies to address the intersecting impacts of climate change and health crises on water governance.
This project has received funding from SFU's Climate Innovation Seed Fund Amplification Award ($24,000).
Strengthening Indigenous partnerships
The project utilizes Indigenous Knowledges and a Community-Centered Participatory Action Research approach to promote community wellbeing and trust. The objectives are three-fold:
- Develop a shared research agenda between the Global North and South to address environmental and health challenges,
- Create a community of support and practice among Shipibo-Konibo, Saik’uz, and Stellat’en First Nation communities and
- Develop and share accessible knowledge mobilization tools to promote community engagement with the partnership.
Project team and community partners
- Lyana Patrick, SFU Health Sciences
- Zoe Todd, SFU Indigenous Studies
- Krista Stelkia, SFU Health Sciences
Co-creation Partners
- Paola Torres Slimming, Universidad Peruana Ciencias Applicadas (UPC)
- Jeisser Mayna Suarez, Asociación Raíces Indígenas Amazónicas Peruanas (ARIAP)
- Ryan Stillwagon, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria
- Jasmine Thomas, Saik’uz First Nation
- Kasandra Turbide, Saik’uz First Nation
- Doug Casimel, Stellat’en First Nation