Durban 2011

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IPCCA Durban Workshop Report
IPCCA Meeting, Nov. 24 & 25, 2011 – Venue: Riverside Hotel, Durban, South Africa

See “Press Release: Indigenous Leaders Alert the UNFCCC and the World to the Imminent Threat that REDD Poses to their Territories and Livelihoods“.

Strategic objectives:

To bring together IPCCA members located in the “REDD Belt”, strengthen cooperation, and enhance partnerships for addressing common challenges and struggles to strengthen the resilience of their biocultural systems. To provide a platform for indigenous peoples’ perspectives on issues of forest governance to enrich international discussions and reframe the REDD debate. To lobby for the recognition and respect of biocultural systems and indigenous peoples’ traditional resource rights

Specific objectives of the workshop are:

  1. To distil and share lessons learned from experiences of forest dependent IPCCA members with regards to local assessments, forest governance, customary use and indigenous peoples rights vis-a-vis REDD
  2. To facilitate shared understanding of key trends and issues on REDD and sharing of lessons about rights-based approaches, especially as they relate to developing Biocultural Protocols as safeguards for protecting indigenous peoples’ rights, developing local responses for poverty alleviation, strengthening biocultural systems, ensuring sustainable forest management, including conservation; and advancing and creating awareness of traditional resource rights
  3. To explore the establishment of a Forest and Traditional Resource Rights Working Group under the IPCCA network, founded on a shared vision and as an approach for creating a strong, collective and distinctive voice for indigenous peoples, and promote, among others, the strengthening of policies, institutions and practices that recognize indigenous peoples’ land tenure, the distinctive nature of traditional knowledge, the value and role of customary management of forest resources and ecosystems, and Buen Vivir (endogenous development.)

Expected Outputs:

  • Proposal for a Biocultural Protocol Model focused on REDD & REDD+
  • Forest and Traditional Resource Rights Working Group of indigenous communities with a focus on the development of safeguards and strengthening of customary forest governance through the IPCCA local Assessments
  • Policy recommendations on safeguards for REDD & REDD+ for the UNFCCC COP meeting in Durban.


Find the text and proposed agenda in Spanish below the English version:

Proposed Agenda Durban 2011

Agenda DurbanSp

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