Recap of the ICCA Consortium’s 2024 In-Person Meeting
The discussions and debates in the meeting clarified the Consortium’s path forward, positioning it better to address the challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Read more ▸
International events
The ICCA Consortium holds its 20th General Assembly online
The General Assembly is the association’s highest governance body and is a crucial opportunity to renew and further strengthen our organization Read more ▸
Regional Assembly discusses Southeast Asia registry and fund for ICCAs—territories of life
The fifth regional assembly of the ICCA Consortium Southeast Asia took place on March 8, 2024, in Subic, Philippines. Read more ▸
Preparing for the 20th General Assembly (online)
The 20th General Assembly (GA) of the ICCA Consortium will be convened virtually on Tuesday, June 4, Thursday, June 6, Tuesday, June 25, and Thursday, June 27, 2024, from 12:00 to 14:30 UTC daily. Read more ▸
The second European Regional Assembly of the ICCA Consortium envisions expanding membership and establishing a regional technical unit
The assembly discussed at length how to make the European territories of life more visible within the relevant legal and policy frameworks. The participants also recommended establishing national-level networks and networks of territories of life linking communities speaking the same mother tongue. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium holds its 19th General Assembly online, the first with staggered approach
More than 200 people, including representatives of more than 100 Member organizations, participated in the ICCA Consortium’s 19th General Assembly, which was held over four sessions in as many months. The Assembly learned about key aspects of the work carried out in 2022 and took several important decisions for the future of the association. Members and Honorary members also participated in a series of optional membership engagement events on diverse topics. Read more ▸
Event recap: Members’ views on the new global biodiversity framework and emerging policy and advocacy priorities
In a special membership engagement event held in conjunction with the first session of the 2023 General Assembly, ICCA Consortium Members and Honorary members reviewed draft technical analyses and collectively discussed ideas and potential priorities for the association’s policy and advocacy work in 2023 and beyond. Read more ▸
Second Regional Assembly of African ICCAs—territories of life brings together representatives from across the continent in 2022
The meeting was held on July 14 and 15, 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda Read more ▸
Preparing for the 19th General Assembly (online)
The 19th General Assembly of the ICCA Consortium will be convened virtually on Wednesday 29 March, Wednesday 26 April, and Wednesday 31 May 2023, from 12:00-14:30 UTC each day. Read more ▸
The territories of life in Latin America face significant challenges: Diagnosis of the 3rd Regional Assembly
In the Assembly that took place in Costa Rica, the representatives identified the main threats to the Territories of Life in the region. Likewise, they identified possible solutions and hopes for the future. Read more ▸
Representatives of territories of life from fourteen countries of Latin America met at the 3rd Regional Assembly
The Regional Assembly was held from January 25 to 27, 2023, in Garabito, Costa Rica. Sixty-two representatives met to propose strategies related to the territories of life in the region. Read more ▸
First regional assembly of ICCA Consortium East Austronesia and the Pacific Islands
The first regional assembly of ICCA Consortium Members in East Austronesia and the Pacific Islands helped make significant progress in the movement for the Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ territories of life in the region as the Members built consensus on common strategic direction and plans. The three-day assembly was held via Zoom from May 26 to 28, 2022. Read more ▸
Dialogue on Indigenous and community leadership in conservation: Enhancing North–South collaboration for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
On December 6, Rights and Resources Imitative, the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP), and the ICCA Consortium—in partnership with the Canadian Research Chair in Human Rights, Health, and the Environment, Montreal International and the Christensen Fund—will co-host a pre-COP15 dialogue on Indigenous and community leadership in conservation. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium Southeast Asia meets in person for the 4th regional assembly
After two years of online-only meetings, the ICCA Consortium Southeast Asia Regional Assembly gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in October. Read more ▸
Invitation to the virtual workshop on “rangelands and pastoralism: towards a global initiative for pastoralists’ territories of life”
ICCA Consortium, in collaboration with UNDP’s Global Support Initiative for ICCAs (GSI), the GEF Small Grants Programme, and the International Support Group for the IYRP, is pleased to announce a second virtual workshop on this topic. The overall aim of the workshop is to initiate a collaborative global initiative that is deeply supportive of pastoralists’ territories of life and their self-determined priorities and plans. Read more ▸
Key ICCA Consortium events at COP15
Side events at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium’s First Regional Assembly of East and North Asia Promotes the Regionalization Process
The assembly provided a valuable opportunity for relationship building, peer learning and exchange, and joint visioning and planning amongst the Members and Honorary members in the region. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium successfully holds 18th General Assembly online
The association’s 18th General Assembly had more than 225 unique participants over four days, shared multimedia reports on key areas of work and took several important decisions, including electing seven Council members. Read more ▸
Preparing for the 18th General Assembly (online)
The 18th General Assembly of the ICCA Consortium will be convened virtually from 25-28 April 2022 from 12:00-14:30 UTC each day. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium Southeast Asia holds third regional assembly
More than 70 people participated in the assembly from October 6-8 2021, with a combination of public and Member-only sessions. Read more ▸
