Recording Lived Experience: A Toolkit for Victims and Survivors

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Victims and survivors’ workers, representatives and organisations, oral history workers

A. Bryson, Queen’s University Belfast

2022

“Recording lived experience is a complex and challenging endeavour. It need hardly be said that I don’t have all the answers. Throughout this toolkit I have nonetheless tried to reflect honestly and openly on my own experiences – what has worked reasonably well, mistakes that I’ve made along the way, and what I have learned from them…

This toolkit is in many ways a ‘work in progress’. As victims and survivors groups begin to develop their own projects, new issues will no doubt come to light. What follows will nonetheless hopefully offer useful and practical guidance, not only for the VSS funded organisations who plan to develop ‘recording lived experiences’, but for all those who are interested in capturing and preserving our invaluable oral heritage, now and for years to come.” (p.4)

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The resource is most closely related to SDGs around collecting, inclusion and related policies and rights, including 9.1 (infrastructure development), 10.2 (universal social inclusion), 11.4 (protect and safeguard cultural and natural heritage), 11.5 (reduce the impact of disasters), 11.7 (access to safe and welcoming green and public spaces), 11.B (Implement policies for inclusion, resource efficiency and disaster risk reduction), 16.1 (prevent all forms of violence), 16.3 (promote the Rule of Law), 16.10 (protect the right to information, and other rights including copyright) and 16.B (policies and laws for sustainable development).

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SDG 9.1: Develop Sustainable, Resilient and Inclusive Infrastructures
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Development of research-useful collections to support reliable, sustainable and resilient use by researchers and others.
Number and proportion of collections facilities and stores that support economic development and human well-being.
Number and proportion of collections facilities and stores that provide affordable and equitable access for all.
Investment in collections facilities.
Inclusion of collections information in regional and transborder initiatives, notably via digital access for discoverability.
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SDG 10.2: Promote Universal Social Economic and Political Inclusion
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Collections development to ensure that collections effectively meet the needs of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.
Number and proportion of educational and participatory programmes that promote participation irrespective of social or other status.
Numbers and proportions of people making use of collections in relation to the demographic of the local population.
Numbers and proportions of people involved in focused programmes aimed at promoting social, economic and political inclusion.
Numbers and proportions of people from different demographic groups involved in decision-making processes relating to collections and collections-based institutions.
Number and types of partnerships that build relationships with marginalized groups, individuals and communities.
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SDG 11.4: Protect the Worlds Cultural and Natural Heritage
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Total expenditure (public and private) per capita spent on the preservation, protection and conservation of all cultural and natural heritage, by type of heritage.
Plans, policies and procedures in place for the safe use of collections for a variety of purposes, protecting and safeguarding both collections and those who use them.
Plans, policies and procedures in place for the identification, safeguarding and protection of cultural and natural heritage at risk.
Collecting programmes in place to protect, safeguard and make use of cultural and natural heritage, addressing the needs of communities and stakeholders, and ensuring that collections can be an effective resource for sustainable development.
Number and diversity of educational, awareness-raising, research programmes, and partnerships that aim to strengthen protection of cultural and natural heritage.
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SDG 11.5: Reduce the Adverse Effects of Natural Disasters
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Collections-based research that supports the understanding and management of disasters of all kinds.
Plans in place for public education and awareness drawing on collections and collections-based institutions to reduce exposure and vulnerability to disasters of all kinds.
Plans in place to ensure collections-based institutions steadily work to reduce their contributions to disaster risk, for example by reducing pollution and waste of all kinds.
Plans in place to ensure collections-based institutions, and people related to them (including workers) are protected from economic losses as a result of disasters.
Plans in place to provide special support/protection to poor and vulnerable people and groups in and following disasters.
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SDG 11.7: Provide Access to Safe and Inclusive Green and Public Spaces
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers of people accessing collecting institutions from different demographic groups, notably women, children, older people and persons with disabilities.
Increases in numbers of people accessing collecting institutions from different demographic groups.
Measures taken to remove barriers to access green and public spaces.
Extent of green space provided by collections institutions.
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SDG 11.B: Implement Policies for Inclusion, Resource Efficiency and Disaster Risk Reduction
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030a.
Disaster Risk Reduction strategies and plans in place, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, to ensure collecting institutions and collections are factored into planning, and contribute effectively to Disaster Risk Reduction.
Collections-based institutions included in local plans for social inclusion, resource use, and Disaster Risk Reduction.
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SDG 16.1: Reduce Violence Everywhere
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Collections development that relates to violent crime, and violence of all kinds, and the relationships between violence and mortality.
Number of educational, awareness-raising and partnership programmes drawing on collections that aim to reduce violence and related mortality.
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SDG 16.3: Promote the Rule of Law and Ensure Equal Access to Justice
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Collections development that relates to the rule of law, equality before the law, and justice for all.
Number of activities drawing on collections, for example educational, research and partnership activities, that promote the rule of law at national and international levels, and that promote a culture of lawfulness, and the right of all to justice.
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SDG 16.10: Ensure Public Access to Information and Protect Fundamental Freedoms
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Adopt and implement constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information.
Plans in place, and plans implemented to enhance public access to information relating to collections.
Plans in place, and plans implemented to support fundamental freedoms, in line with human rights, national and international agreements and legislation.
Plans and procedures in place for public access to information relating to the operation and management of collections-based institutions.
Complaint mechanism in place for public to use where public access to information and fundamental freedoms not supported or fulfilled.
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SDG 16.B: Promote and Enforce Non-Discriminatory Laws and Policies
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of population [audience/users/non-users] reporting having personally felt discriminated against or harassed in the previous 12 months on the basis of a ground of discrimination prohibited under international human rights law.
Number and proportion of policies that incorporate sustainable development considerations, in the full sense of recognizing all three of social, economic and environmental considerations.
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