Solidarity Reception
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Event Category: GLF Event
Plenary: Changing the Narrative
Celebrating the diversity of nature and humans – and of the relationships between them – brings us closer to the transformative solutions we need. Only by changing our thinking and learning to accept, understand and honor all perspectives can we rewrite together the collective story of our shared future. How can we challenge and change the existing narrative? Array ( )
Coffee break and structured networking
We offer speed networking as a facilitated process during the conference break times to provide a friendly space for participants to meet new people, make connections and share interests and ideas in a short space of time. These sessions will last 30 minutes and operate on a first-come, first-served basis. Ask our volunteer team for details on the location, and don’t miss this opportunity to network with like-minded, inspiring people.
Coffee break and structured networking
We offer speed networking as a facilitated process during the conference break times to provide a friendly space for participants to meet new people, make connections and share interests and ideas in a short space of time. These sessions will last 30 minutes and operate on a first-come, first-served basis. Ask our volunteer team for details on the location, and don’t miss this opportunity to network with like-minded, inspiring people.
Plenary: Voices of the Landscape
It’s time to recognize the unsung heroes, big and small, who take a stand for their landscapes and their environment. Across the globe, local communities and Indigenous Peoples – particularly rural women and youth – are writing stories of resilience and success by mobilizing their communities to drive projects of immense impact.
How does visionary leadership at a community level give rise to the radical ideas that generate sweeping positive change?
Array ( )Opening Plenary: Inspirational Leadership
What are the secret ingredients to success? Listen to inspiring visionaries whose innovative approaches are strengthening collaboration and fostering mutual trust. Their insights will light the way and unite the audience to ensure 2019 marks a turning point for how rights, traditional knowledge, and solutions from the ground are respected, considered, and implemented. Array ( )
Coffee break and structured networking
We offer speed networking as a facilitated process during the conference break times to provide a friendly space for participants to meet new people, make connections and share interests and ideas in a short space of time. These sessions will last 30 minutes and operate on a first-come, first-served basis. Ask our volunteer team for details on the location, and don’t miss this opportunity to network with like-minded, inspiring people.
Rights, results, and rewards: Managing production landscapes sustainably
Promising lessons from the field on how to sustainably manage production landscapes
This interactive session will explore how sustainable approaches to managing production landscapes are showing promising results for communities, ecosystems and economic growth in several countries. Investment in coordination across government agencies, consistent policies, knowledge and tools, technical capacity building, project financing and private sector collaboration are key ingredients for success on the ground.
Delegates to the session will discuss how clear rights, benefits and incentives for local communities, and gender-informed approaches, are proving to be fundamental for impactful and lasting results. Case studies with World Bank experiences in this regard, including Ghana, Zambia, and from Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), will be reviewed.
Array ( )Securing Rights, Securing Landscapes: Boosting the impacts
This session will involve an interactive panel discussion that will focus on how best to scale up recognition of land rights across the developing world. Other topics include early lessons from the Tenure Facility’s experience in designing and delivering projects to scale-up implementation; as well as actions to address operational, institutional and financial gaps and constraints.
Delegates to the event can discuss the significance of research showing that community-managed forests tend to experience lower rates of deforestation, store more carbon, hold more biodiversity, and benefit more people than forestlands managed by either public or private entities. The Tenure Facility has demonstrated the speed at which laws can be implemented when funding is provided directly to rights-holder organizations and their allies. In just over two years, the Tenure Facility has enabled communities to advance rights recognition over more than 6.5 million hectares of land.
In that context, the session will consider how aligning international commitments and priorities with emerging national demand and opportunities to scale up rights could dramatically shift the global pendulum towards a more sustainable, equitable and climate-resilient future for all.
Array ( )Making climate action inclusive in forest landscapes
This session will share and discuss approaches and experiences to ensure climate policies, actions and financial instruments are inclusive, notably in terms of promoting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as mainstreaming gender equality. It will focus on forested landscapes and on efforts to reduce deforestation to address the climate crisis. Representatives from indigenous peoples, as rights holders, will present their cases, which will be commented by representatives from development partners. The discussions aim at scoping the opportunities of climate policy & finance to advancing the rights of indigenous peoples, and the approaches required to harness them.
SPEAKERS
Indigenous/Community rights holders:
- Mr. Lakpa Nuri Sherpa – Coordinator, Climate Change Monitoring & Information Network, AIPP.
- Ms. Naw Ei Ei Min – Promotion of Indigenous and Nature Together (POINT), Myanmar; and Member of the Counsel, AIPP.
- Mr. Felipe Rangel – Territorial Counsellor, Colombia’s National Indigenous Organisation (ONIC).
- Mr. Lizardo Cauper – President, AIDESEP, Peru.
- Mr. Juan Carlos Jintiach – Coordinator, International Economic Cooperation & Autonomous Indigenous Development, COICA, Ecuador.
- Mr. Gustavo Sánchez – President of the Red MOCAF
- Ms. Grace Balawag – Coordinator, Climate Change, Tebtebba. Indigenous Peoples’ Representative a.i., UN-REDD Executive Board.
Development partners:
- Ms. Roselyn Adjei – Director of Climate Change, Forestry Commission, Ghana. Country Representative, UN-REDD Executive Board.
- Ms. Nonette Royo – Executive Director, The Tenure Facility.
- Mr. Leif John Fosse – Lead specialist on Indigenous Peoples, NICFI, Norway.
- Ms. Celina Yong – Regional advisor (Asia/Pacific), UN-REDD.
Facilitator: Ms. Serena Fortuna (UN-REDD)
Synthesis: Mr. Josep Garí (UN-REDD)