Program

September 30^th Program

8:00-11:00 | Registration

9:00-10:00 | Opening Plenary: Welcome remarks, setting the scene (RRI, ILC, Oxfam, and HSI). Opening statements and keynote address.

Kursaal Arena

10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break

Forum West

10:30-12:00 | Strategy Sessions

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• Community Land Maps and Tenure Security
  Vivace 1
• Building Legal Capacity to Secure Community and Indigenous People’s Land Rights
  Vivace 3
• Expanding and Leveraging Private Sector Action to Secure Community Land Rights
  Vivace 4
• Expanding Engagement of Conservation Actors in Securing Indigenous and Community Land Rights
  Vivace 5
• Scaling-Up Women’s Land and Resource Rights
  Vivace 6
• Establishing Community and Indigenous Land and Resources Rights as a Global Priority
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12:00-13:30 | Lunch

Forum West

12:00-13:30 | Side Events: 

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• Launch of the Territories of Life Video Toolkit and Talk on Plan de Vida, a Long-term Approach to Securing Indigenous Territories (Cabildo Misak and LifeMosaic)
  Vivace 1
• Strengthening Partnerships for Improved Civil Society Capacity in African Natural Resource Governance (Maliasili Initiatives and Well Grounded)
  Vivace 3
• Mekong Region Land Governance Customary Tenure Initiatives (LEI and Gret)
  Vivace 4
• Conflict Sensitivity: A Priority for Natural Resource Rights Organizations (Sida Helpdesk on Human Security)
  Vivace 5
• Building Momentum towards the Global Call for Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights (Steering Group of the Global Call to Action)
  Vivace 6

13:30-15:00 | Strategy Sessions (continued)

15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break

Forum West

15:30-17:00 | Strategy (Sessions continued)

17:00-18:00 | Reporting Back Plenary

Kursaal Arena

18:00-20:00 | Evening reception

Forum West

October 1^st Program

9:00-10:30 | Indigenous Peoples Panel: Strategies to Advance Indigenous Land Rights and Governance in Climate Change Initiatives

Kursaal Arena

By the end of the year, a new global climate agreement should be signed in Paris and more details will be provided on REDD+ funding frameworks, as well as mitigation and adaptation measures. It is expected that some of these processes will have significant implications for indigenous tenure rights for years to come. The recent developments, including the new draft of the World Bank environmental and social safeguards, are raising great concerns among local and civil society groups. In that context, many indigenous organizations have established plans to make sure their concerns are taken into account and addressed. This panel will be the opportunity to hear what plans indigenous groups have made to strengthen their position in climate policies and programs and what are their proposals to scale up recognition of their rights. Leading to Paris, these groups will also share what their specific asks are for the climate agreement and negotiations.

Chair: Ms. Penny Davies, Program Officer, Ford Foundation

Speakers:

• Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Cándido Mezua Salazar, Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests (AMPB)
• Edwin Vásquez, General Coordinator, Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA)
• Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Sahel Region Representative, Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC)
• Rukka Sombolinggi, Deputy Secretary General, Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN)

10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break

Forum West

11:00-12:30 | Plenary: Towards Full Recognition of Tenure Rights in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities in the Context of Colombia and Peru as New Emerging Economies

Kursaal Arena

Latin America has the highest percentage of indigenous, Afro-descendant, and community forests under formal recognition, at 39% of all forest land. Over the last 30 years, most Latin American countries have enacted laws and policies to advance community land rights, with some countries undertaking major reforms. Recognition of these rights has often been the product of sustained pressure and advocacy, as well as the mediation of long-term conflicts between communities, civil society, and the government. Despite these advances, tenure insecurity and rollback is growing across the region, and the implementation of existing laws has been restricted by a number of constraints including lack of resources, capacity, and political will. Increasing global demand for natural resources puts pressures on community lands, while countries are weakening laws and protections to attract foreign investments in the extractive industry sector. Looking at cases in Peru and Colombia, this panel will assess and learn from the factors that have impeded the realization of collective rights, and will examine new opportunities to accelerate the full implementation of land rights for indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local communities.

Chair: Leticia Merino, Founder, International Association for the Study of the Commons, Mexico

Moderator: Omaira Bolaños, Regional Director, Latin America, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)

Speakers:

• Humberto Campodonico, Head of the Economics Department, Universidad Mayor Nacional de San Marcos, Peru
• Klaus Quicque, President, Native Federation of the Madre de Dios River and Tributaries, Peru
• Johana Herrera, Professor and Researcher, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
• Leonor Zalabata, Indigenous Leader Arhuaca, Human Rights Commissioner, Indigenous Confederation of Tayrona, Colombia

 12:30-14:00 | Lunch

Forum West

13:00-14:00 | Side Events:

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• Land Deal Transparency: Previewing OpenLandContracts.org (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment)
  Vivace 1
• The Open Data Revolution: Transforming the Landscape for Community Land Rights (Land Portal)
  Vivace 4
• Share Fair (International Land Coalition)
  Vivace 6

14:00 – 15:30 | Plenary: A Watershed Moment in Africa: How Do We Make Land Rights a Reality?

Kursaal Arena

African countries are now reforming the colonial legal frameworks that put the majority of forest land in government hands. This session will share lessons learned from forested countries in West and Central Africa that are currently undertaking community tenure reform processes, including Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Liberia. A diverse range of actors are shaping these reform processes to secure the rights of local communities, women, and Indigenous Peoples. This panel will bring together these strategic allies, which include civil society organizations, traditional chiefs, parliamentarians, Indigenous Peoples, women, and national institutions leading the reforms, to leverage different perspectives on challenges and opportunities for these countries and on strategies to advance tenure reforms that achieve sustainable development and social justice objectives.

Chair: Honorable Jean-Jacques Zam, National Coordinator, Network of Parliamentarians for the Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa (REPAR)

Moderator: Solange Bandiaky-Badji, Regional Director, Africa, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)

Speakers:

• Chief Robinson Tanyi, Traditional Ruler and Country Coordinator, Network of Traditional Chiefs for the Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa (ReCTRAD), Cameroon
• Nora Bowier, Coordinator, Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), Liberia
• Diel Mochire Mwenge, Provincial Director, Integration and Development Programme for Pygmy People in Kivu, DRC

15:30-17:00 | Plenary: Realizing Unmet Potential: Accelerating Community Land Tenure Recognition in two of the World’s Largest Democracies

Kursaal Arena

Asia is home to the largest number of forest dependent and indigenous communities. Community tenure reforms in Asia can benefit more than 400 million people. However, the potential remains largely unmet, even though there have been exciting developments in the last decade. In this panel, we will focus on community tenure reform processes in two of the world’s greatest democracies, India and Indonesia. Speakers will explore the vast unmet potential for community and indigenous forest tenure opened up by the 2013 Constitutional Court order in Indonesia and the enactment of the landmark Forest Rights Act in India. Estimates show that more than 80 million ha of land can come under the jurisdiction of communities in the two countries, benefiting more than 250 million forest dwellers and indigenous peoples. Speakers from both countries will discuss how the potential for community rights are sought to be actualized and ongoing obstacles and bottlenecks being faced in the process. They will discuss the need for global, regional and national support to bring about this transformation which will lead to better outcomes for conservation, sustainable development, poverty alleviation and climate resilience in the forested landscapes of India and Indonesia.

Chair: Nonette Royo, Executive Director, Samdhana Institute

Moderator: Kundan Kumar, Program Director, Asia, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)

Speakers:

• Rukka Sombolinggi, Deputy Secretary General, Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), Indonesia
• Sandra Moniaga, Commissioner, National Commission on Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia (Komnas HAM)
• Tajamul Haque, Director, Council for Social Development, India
• Tushar Dash, Program Officer, Vasundhara, India

17:00-18:00 | Closing Plenary: Wrap-up and Closing Statements

Kursaal Arena

18:30-21:00 | Workshop: Ensuring Conflict Sensitivity in Natural Resource Rights Organisations:  Developing Institutional Policies, Capacities and Systems (Sida Helpdesk on Human Security)

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To attend this workshop, please sign-up at the registration table or during the side event on September 30th. Space will be limited and available on a first come first serve basis.