Climate change is hindering the rights of poor women and children to live a safe life due to its negative impacts on their livelihoods, health, education and food security. New innovations and approaches are needed to link these impacts to policy-makers in a way that not only amplifies the concerns of poor women and children but promotes their participation in and capacity for creating adaptation solutions. This paper shares the experiences of a participatory action researcher who studied how participatory video could be used as one method to educate and empower marginalized groups to advocate for climate change adaptation support. It will explain how a year-long research project in Nepal explored participatory video as a supportive development tool to generate local knowledge on impacts and coping strategies, build the capacity to act on this knowledge, and advocate for adaptation support from the local to the global level. The paper will also examine and share the strengths and limitations of using participatory video for transformational social change through observations and lessons learned that can be applied in the climate change debate as well as to a wider scope of development issues.
