The United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) independent watchdog visited Myanmar to investigate a large conservation project posing grave risks to indigenous communities in the Tanintharyi Region, an area of the country that has seen decades of armed conflict during Myanmar’s 70-year civil war. Read more ▸
For the third time in the Philippines, more than a hundred stakeholders from indigenous people as well as government agencies and civil society gathered to acknowledge recent gains in the recognition of ICCAs institutionalization and elaborate a plan to continue supporting ICCAs in the country. Read more ▸
In Malaysia, despite long- standing problems and complaints of the indigenous peoples affected by Bakun Dam, and without the free, prior, and informed consent of local populations, the government is planning to build another such project: Papar Dam. In this article, ICCA Consortium Member SAVE Rivers reports on the situation. Read more ▸
A few months after the Regional Assembly, Aibek Samakov, interim Council Member with special responsibility for West and Central Asia and the Caucasus, offers his reflections on the outcomes of the event and the future of ICCAs in the region. Read more ▸
The Consortium held a successful regional assembly in Armenia between June 16-21 2019, with excellent prospects for the Consortium membership and its work in West and Central Asia and the Caucasus. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium Member Forest Peoples Programme tells us about the environmental and human rights defenders (including a representative of Consortium Member ANAPAC RDC) who took the stage at the Global Landscapes Forum to share their struggles. Read more ▸
On June 2019, the Myanmar ICCA Working Group held its bi-annual meeting. It was an occasion to prepare the documentation of ICCAs and plan strategies for engaging with the government to advocate for the recognition of these territories Read more ▸
As part of the ICCA Global Support Initiative, together with the ICCA Consortium and Natural Justice, the UNDP GEF SGP conducted analyses to evaluate the impacts and opportunities of laws, policies and institutional frameworks on ICCAs at the national level in several countries. Read more ▸
This summary of regional reports, written by indigenous researchers and experts, with the guidance of the Indigenous Peoples Major Group Global Coordinating Committee, stresses the importance of securing the collective land rights of indigenous peoples, an imperative to achieving sustainable development for all. Read more ▸
Over 227 people including indigenous communities from across the region, civil society groups, international organisations and government representatives came together at the Regional Forum on Forests and Peoples. They debated problems with forest governance and demanded recognition of their ICCAs – Territories of Life. Read more ▸
UNDP Philippines received the “Development Aid of the Year Award” for Biodiversity. One of its commendable projects is the Philippine ICCA Project which aims at strengthening conservation by institutionalizing ICCAs as a sustainable addition to the national protected areas estate. Read more ▸
The recent decision by the India Supreme Court has enormous potential ramifications for conservation, livelihoods, and rights in India’s protected areas and other forest lands, as explained in this blog by Stan Stevens and Neema Pathak, some of the initiators of the ICCA Consortium. Read more ▸
The Coalition Against Land Grabbing (CALG, Philippines) and the Coordinadora de Comunidades Mapuche-Williche “Willi Lafken Weychan” (Chile), ICCA Consortium Members and partners, were grant a “Keepers of the Earth Fund” small grant award by Cultural Survival. They are among thirty small grantees in 19 countries. Read more ▸
WWF Myanmar takes us through a visual journey among the ICCAs in the country. Kayin people, some Chin, Kachin, Naga and other Dawei people travelled from all over the region and country for an important workshop that marked the beginning of a new era in community-based conservation for Myanmar. Read more ▸
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An orientation and dialogue on the Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System (ENIPAS) Law was held in the Philippines on March 25-26 with indigenous community leaders whose ancestral domains overlap with protected areas. It led to a historic declaration. Read more ▸
The Declaration is a culmination of more than a year of documentation-related activities, including boundary delineation, 3D and digital mapping, resource inventory, and documentation of indigenous knowledge, systems, and practices (IKSP). Read more ▸
500 people participated in the first national forum of the Union of Indigenous Nomadic Tribes of Iran (UNINOMAD – an ICCA Consortium Member) in the Bakhtiari Tribal Confederacy’s Territory, Iran, reinforcing unity and solidarity among the nomadic tribes of Iran Read more ▸
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