The Women Storytelling training manual was developed to support indigenous women’s activists groups to build skills in documenting and recording their indigenous knowledge from a woman's perspective. It employs the women to acknowledge the value of their knowledge and information and display it through visual and storytelling mediums which are accessible to themselves, other women and the broader community. With this knowledge documented it equips them with an achievable record and evidence of their traditional practices, cultural norms and local knowledge to reaffirm their self-determination rights as indigenous women and as valuable members of the family and community.

Women Storytelling gives women a safe place to meet each other as a group in the community to share their knowledge and information on how they self-determine as indigenous women and share their traditional practices and customary knowledge that are essential in preserving their cultural heritage and ethnic identity.

This training manual is targeted at indigenous women leaders, activists, and supporters to build skills in the documentation of indigenous women’s knowledge. In doing so we hope to build greater awareness of Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereignty (IKDS) and the practical implementation of managing and protecting these data.

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