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Day 1, October 4
8:30 – 10:15 AM
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Main Stage Opening8:30: Welcome RemarksMaster of Ceremony: Solange Bandiaky-Badji, Director, Africa Program and Gender Justice, Rights and Resources Initiative Welcome: Sami Joik and Poem Simon Marainen, Joiker, artist, and reindeer herder Speakers:
9:15: Confronting inequality: How community, indigenous, and rural women’s land rights are central to achieving widespread peace and prosperityThis session will lay the landscape for the ways in which community, indigenous, and women’s land rights can pave the way for peace and prosperity. Get ready to roll up your sleeves to find practical solutions to promote equality and inclusive economic development for women, communities, and Indigenous Peoples around the globe. Speakers:
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10:15 – 10:45 AM
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Coffee, Innovation Zone, and Networking BreakSee this page for more information about the Innovation Zone. |
10:45 AM – 12:45 PMSession 1: Albin Session 2: Isaac Session 3: Marc |
3 Strategy Sessions (concurrent)A detailed agenda for each strategy session is available at the registration desk. Session 1: Rural and indigenous women’s rights and leadership in collective landsThis session will take stock of strategies and tools being used to recognize and secure indigenous and rural women’s rights and promote their leadership within communities, and build toward the articulation of a new global partnership on indigenous and rural women and community land rights. Discussion will consider current issues, challenges, commitments, and identify “gaps” in securing women’s land rights, with a focus on ensuring that the session captures the diverse experiences and needs of indigenous and rural women. Co-leads: Asia Indigenous People’s Pact; Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Autonomy and Development (Centro para la Autonomía y Desarollo de los Pueblos Indígenas, Nicaragua); Rights and Resources Initiative Co-organizers: Center for International Forestry Research; Federation of Community Forestry Users Users, Nepal; Landesa; Organización Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas Andinas y Amazónicas del Perú; African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests Session 2: Strategies and mechanisms to scale-up implementation from local to national levelThis session will analyze successful strategies for closing the tenure gap, based on actual country experiences. In particular, the session will analyze how these strategies are conceived, what factors are taken into account, which constituencies and actors are activated or challenged, and how they are implemented. The deliberations in this session will lead to recommendations to the plenary (for specific actions by different actors) about how such strategies can be “scaled-up” and “close the implementation gap” in countries, and what needs to be done to realize these opportunities. Co-leads: The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility and the Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago, Indonesia Co-organizers: Center for International Forestry Research; Indian School of Business; Vasundhara; Forest Trends; Center for Environment and Development; Sustainable Development Institute Session 3: Connecting and leveraging international support structures to advance indigenous and community land rightsThis session aims to take stock of the international structure for supporting Indigenous Peoples and local communities land rights, including women and youth, by asking a series of questions designed to assess the gaps and opportunities in the existing structure, as well as how changes in technology can build synergies and connect stakeholders and international structures more effectively. A set of recommendations with specific targets and commitments from participants to strengthen international support structures and increase recognition of indigenous and community land rights, will be presented to the plenary. Lead: Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights Co-organizer: Landesa |
12:45 – 2 PM
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Lunch, Innovation Zone, and Networking BreakSee this page for more information about the Innovation Zone. |
12:45 – 2 PMAlbin |
Side Event: Scaling rights, strengthening conservation: Strategies & opportunities for supporting global changeEvidence shows that securing community land and resource rights represents a vital and necessary first step towards global peace, prosperity and sustainability. As such, conservation leaders are identifying new and innovative ways to improve conservation outcomes by scaling rights. To further action on this front, governments, community leaders and the broader international community need to better understand what are the promising strategies and opportunities for supporting global change, and what gap remains to be filled. Lunch boxes will be provided for participants. Moderator: Fred Nelson, Executive Director, Maliasili Initiatives Speakers:
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2 – 4 PMSession 1: Albin Session 2: Isaac Session 3: Marc |
3 Strategy Sessions (continued) |
4 – 4:30 PM
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Coffee, Innovation Zone, and Networking BreakSee this page for more information about the Innovation Zone. |
4:30 – 6 PM
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Main Stage Closing4:30: The DownloadIn this talk-show style session, Innovation Zone Partners will share how they plan to use their innovations toward themes discussed from the day. Property rights, tenure, and security have garnered attention from civil society, public and private sectors and the world’s largest development donors, while land mapping, documentation and administration need a renewed focus in numerous countries where these crucial tools are still lacking. New approaches and innovations to support property rights will be key to scaling impact. Moderator: Coimbra Sirica, Senior Vice President, Burness Communications Speakers: Representatives from Innovation Zone Partners, including:
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6 – 8 PM |
Dinner |
Day 2, October 5
8:30 – 10 AM
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Main Stage Opening8:30: Unearthed: Emerging experience of leading companies and investors to support the recognition of community land rightsThis session will explore cases of investor and company efforts to improve due diligence and invest in the recognition of community rights, and work towards more inclusive development models. The discussion will focus on how to expand and leverage these promising, initial efforts by corporations. Moderator: Mark Constantine, Principal Strategist of the Agribusiness and Forestry Department, International Finance Corporation; Co-chair of the Interlaken Group Speakers:
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10 – 10:30 AM
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Coffee, Innovation Zone, and Networking BreakSee this page for more information about the Innovation Zone. |
10:30 AM – 12:30 PMSession 1: Albin Session 2: Isaac Session 3: Marc |
3 Strategy Sessions (continued) |
12:30 – 3 PM
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Lunch, Networking, and Innovation ZoneSee this page for more information about the Innovation Zone. Be sure to check out the extended Innovation Zone on Day 2. |
3 – 3: 30 PM
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Coffee, Innovation Zone, and Networking Break |
3:30 – 5:30 PM
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Main Stage Closing3:30: Highlights from Strategy SessionsIn this forward-thinking closing plenary, rapporteurs from each strategy session will offer highlights from their sessions and share key takeaways, recommendations, and defined next steps on what is needed at the global level to support country-level work. This session will lead us to prioritize and operationalize next steps and will set the stage for our final plenary and call to action for all participants. Moderator: Nighisty Ghezae, Director, International Foundation for Science Speakers: Representatives of each strategy session and key plenaries 4:20: Looking ahead: Respecting rights to achieve peace and prosperityModerator: Alan Robbins, Partner and Global Head of Partnerships, Devex Speakers:
5:15: Closing Remarks and Call to ActionSpeakers:
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