This workshop will contribute to participants’ appreciation and understanding of innovative ways to connect with rural communities and stakeholders to co-create knowledge and share learnings. The relevance of this knowledge is enhanced by the leading role taken by co-creation partners to drive the work to be useful, useable and used.

Workshop Scope:

Some of the topics that will be covered in the workshop by way of presentations and focused activities will be:

• Co-creation tools and strategies for working across research, policy and practice (Presentations)
  • Development of AF8 science and outreach videos
  • Tools for co-creating complex hazard-to-impact information
  • Disaster Risk Information Lessons
• Opportunities and challenges of using co-creation methods with rural communities

Main Objectives:

• To present some of the new and innovative communication tools and products to create. networks and to engage with rural communities for improved disaster preparedness
• To understand the opportunities and challenges of using the co-creation method, with illustrated examples
• To cross-pollinate ideas between researchers and strengthen and build new networks