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Dear colleagues,
I am reaching out to you on behalf of Lorena Aguilar and the Governance and Rights team, as well as our Commission colleagues in CEESP, to get some inputs in to an important new process
with Indigenous Peoples’ Organisation Members.
As you know, at the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress, IUCN Members adopted a decision to establish a new membership category for Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations (IPOs). This
landmark decision is path breaking and ensures an equal voice of Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations in IUCN and in the further development and delivery of the IUCN One Programme. As a direct follow-up to this decision,
the Global Programme on Governance and Rights in collaboration with CEESP is supporting the development of an Indigenous-Member led and self-determined strategy to provide collective vision and direction on how to most effectively utilize the new Category
and in mobilising, engaging and coordinating action on conservation and natural resource management and indigenous rights, at global, regional and national levels.
A meeting will be held in Costa Rica the first week of March (1-4) with IUCN IPO Members to formally establish and begin the collaborative indigenous-led process to develop this strategy.
As an input to this meeting it is important that we have a robust inventory of ongoing or planned initiatives that directly engage with IPOs across IUCN’s regional and thematic project portfolio and Commission work. To prepare for this, we would like to collect
and collate any current or planned engagement with indigenous peoples
as well as any ideas you have on how your Programme or Commission would benefit from closer engagement with Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations.
For any examples, please provide:
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Region/Global Programme/Commission:
· Project, if applicable:
· Main potential/ongoing points of engagement with IPOs:
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Other partners, if applicable:
Please pass this information on to anyone in your team to whom it is relevant. We would be grateful if you or your team could provide relevant information to Kaia Boe (kaia...@iucn.org)
by February 16th. For any questions, please contact Kaia.
With thanks in advance and best regards,
Stewart
Stewart Maginnis
Global Director - Nature-based Solutions Group
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
28 rue Mauverney, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland
Tel. + 41 22 999 0122 / 0264
www.iucn.org
