Webinar hosted by the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) and the Global Wildlife Program (GWP)
Overview Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) are at the center of the biodiversity and climate crises; both because they are impacted by these but also as they are an essential part of the solutions. Solutions such as increasing the percentage of global terrestrial and marine surfaces under conservation and improving their effective management will only be possible by involving, through innovative and inclusive processes, IPLCs in decision making related to natural resources planning and management at multiple scales. IPLCs not only have rights over these natural resources, but they also bring unique perspectives, skills, and a wealth of knowledge that can help find solutions to address not just their local needs but global threats.
The webinar, hosted jointly by the World Bank-led Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) and the Global Wildlife Program (GWP) which are both Global Environment Facility (GEF)-funded programs, presented selected approaches and tools implemented in Africa and Latin America, that promote engagement with IPLCs in natural resource conservation and sustainable development. Legado Initiative will share their experience in providing tools and resources to establish partnerships with communities towards their Thriving Futures, and Wildlife Conservation Society will share a set of participatory methodologies to help IPLCs strengthen their capacities in territorial management.
Valerie Hickey, Practice Manager, Climate Change Advisory and Operations Unit, The World Bank Group
Speakers
Majka Burhardt, Founder and Executive Director, Legado
Diana Alvira, Thriving Futures Director, Legado
Lilian Painter, Director, Wildlife Conservation Society
Discussants
Mauricio Sarabia Vie, President of the T'simane Mosetén Regional Council of Pilón Lajas
Agustin Vicente Mamani Peña, Captain Grande of the Central Indígena del Pueblo Leco de Apolo
Siddharth Nair, Landscape Associate, SECURE Himalaya Project-United Nations Development Program
Bios:
Chair
Valerie Hickey, Practice Manager, Climate Change Advisory and Operations Unit
Valerie has worked across the Bank’s providing design and implementation support to a variety of operations across the world, including in fragile states. As chair of the biodiversity and wildlife crime communities of practice, Valerie convenes the Bank’s deep technical expertise in pursuit of providing policy advice and implementation support to improve the role of natural resource management in poverty alleviation and green growth. Valerie represents the World Bank in international conventions related to biodiversity. Valerie holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University and a Master of Arts in negotiations from Notre Dame.
Speakers
Majka Burhardt is the Founder and Executive Director of Legado.
Majka has spent two plus decades leading multi-stage international ventures on issues of cultural and global significance spanning Africa, Europe, South, and North America. In 2014, she founded Legado to address the growing need to create thriving future solutions that put Indigenous People and Local Communities at the center of preserving the most threatened and most biodiverse places of the world. She is a Mulago Foundation Henry Arnhold Fellow for her work in conservation entrepreneurship.
Diana “Tita” Alvira is the Thriving Futures Director of Legado.
Tita is an interdisciplinary ecologist from Colombia, with more than 20 years of experience working implementing community-centered conservation for well-being programs, and participatory action research methodologies for conserving the cultural and biological diversity in the Andes Amazon region. She has a PhD in interdisciplinary ecology with concentrations in tropical conservation and development and farming systems research and extension from the University of Florida.
Lilian Painter is an ecologist and Country Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society in Bolivia.
Lilian has a long-term experience in establishing alliances for integrated and multi-level territorial management for conservation at a landscape scale. At WCS she has led the development of management plans for over 2 million hectares of protected areas and promoted alliances to support conservation with a wide array on organizations from indigenous and farmer organizations to local, regional, and national state and private entities. Lilian has a PhD from the Liverpool University in Behavioral Ecology.
Discussants
Mauricio Saravia is President of the T'simane Mosetén Regional Council of Pilón Laja, Bolivia.
Mauricio is from the Río Hondo community in the Tsimane, Mosetene and Tacana indigenous territory of Pilón Lajas in Bolivia. He has been an important leader promoting indigenous territorial management, including the management and use of natural resources and strengthening local capacities. He has held leadership positions from the communal to the territorial levels. He has professional training as an agricultural technician, which has allowed him to advise his organization and communities on various issues.
Vicente Mamani is the Captain Grande of the Central Indígena del Pueblo Leco de Apolo (CIPLA), and President of the Management Committee of the Madidi National Park.
Born in the indigenous community of Cuba in the municipality of Apolo in the department of La Paz, Bolivia. He has fulfilled several important positions including President of the Regional Association of Apolo Coca Leaf Producers and an official of the Autonomous Municipal Government of Apolo.
Siddharth Nair is the Project Associate at the Natural Resource Management & Biodiversity of UNDP in India.
As part of the unit, he works on natural resource management and biodiversity conservation projects in the country. He has considerable field experience in the Indian Himalayan region, including the Securing Livelihoods, Conservation, Sustainable Use and Restoration of High Range Himalayan Ecosystems Himalayas (SECURE) Project, which is a part of the Global Wildlife Program. Siddharth a master’s degree in Environment & Development from the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University, New Delhi.
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Sharing successful experiences of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities' engagement in conservation
Webinar hosted by the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) and the Global Wildlife Program (GWP)
Overview Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) are at the center of the biodiversity and climate crises; both because they are impacted by these but also as they are an essential part of the solutions. Solutions such as increasing the percentage of global terrestrial and marine surfaces under conservation and improving their effective management will only be possible by involving, through innovative and inclusive processes, IPLCs in decision making related to natural resources planning and management at multiple scales. IPLCs not only have rights over these natural resources, but they also bring unique perspectives, skills, and a wealth of knowledge that can help find solutions to address not just their local needs but global threats.
The webinar, hosted jointly by the World Bank-led Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) and the Global Wildlife Program (GWP) which are both Global Environment Facility (GEF)-funded programs, presented selected approaches and tools implemented in Africa and Latin America, that promote engagement with IPLCs in natural resource conservation and sustainable development. Legado Initiative will share their experience in providing tools and resources to establish partnerships with communities towards their Thriving Futures, and Wildlife Conservation Society will share a set of participatory methodologies to help IPLCs strengthen their capacities in territorial management.
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Chair
Valerie Hickey, Practice Manager, Climate Change Advisory and Operations Unit, The World Bank Group
Speakers
Majka Burhardt, Founder and Executive Director, Legado
Diana Alvira, Thriving Futures Director, Legado
Lilian Painter, Director, Wildlife Conservation Society
Discussants
Mauricio Sarabia Vie, President of the T'simane Mosetén Regional Council of Pilón Lajas
Agustin Vicente Mamani Peña, Captain Grande of the Central Indígena del Pueblo Leco de Apolo
Siddharth Nair, Landscape Associate, SECURE Himalaya Project-United Nations Development Program
Bios:
Chair
Valerie Hickey, Practice Manager, Climate Change Advisory and Operations Unit
Valerie has worked across the Bank’s providing design and implementation support to a variety of operations across the world, including in fragile states. As chair of the biodiversity and wildlife crime communities of practice, Valerie convenes the Bank’s deep technical expertise in pursuit of providing policy advice and implementation support to improve the role of natural resource management in poverty alleviation and green growth. Valerie represents the World Bank in international conventions related to biodiversity. Valerie holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University and a Master of Arts in negotiations from Notre Dame.
Speakers
Majka Burhardt is the Founder and Executive Director of Legado.
Majka has spent two plus decades leading multi-stage international ventures on issues of cultural and global significance spanning Africa, Europe, South, and North America. In 2014, she founded Legado to address the growing need to create thriving future solutions that put Indigenous People and Local Communities at the center of preserving the most threatened and most biodiverse places of the world. She is a Mulago Foundation Henry Arnhold Fellow for her work in conservation entrepreneurship.
Diana “Tita” Alvira is the Thriving Futures Director of Legado.
Tita is an interdisciplinary ecologist from Colombia, with more than 20 years of experience working implementing community-centered conservation for well-being programs, and participatory action research methodologies for conserving the cultural and biological diversity in the Andes Amazon region. She has a PhD in interdisciplinary ecology with concentrations in tropical conservation and development and farming systems research and extension from the University of Florida.
Lilian Painter is an ecologist and Country Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society in Bolivia.
Lilian has a long-term experience in establishing alliances for integrated and multi-level territorial management for conservation at a landscape scale. At WCS she has led the development of management plans for over 2 million hectares of protected areas and promoted alliances to support conservation with a wide array on organizations from indigenous and farmer organizations to local, regional, and national state and private entities. Lilian has a PhD from the Liverpool University in Behavioral Ecology.
Discussants
Mauricio Saravia is President of the T'simane Mosetén Regional Council of Pilón Laja, Bolivia.
Mauricio is from the Río Hondo community in the Tsimane, Mosetene and Tacana indigenous territory of Pilón Lajas in Bolivia. He has been an important leader promoting indigenous territorial management, including the management and use of natural resources and strengthening local capacities. He has held leadership positions from the communal to the territorial levels. He has professional training as an agricultural technician, which has allowed him to advise his organization and communities on various issues.
Vicente Mamani is the Captain Grande of the Central Indígena del Pueblo Leco de Apolo (CIPLA), and President of the Management Committee of the Madidi National Park.
Born in the indigenous community of Cuba in the municipality of Apolo in the department of La Paz, Bolivia. He has fulfilled several important positions including President of the Regional Association of Apolo Coca Leaf Producers and an official of the Autonomous Municipal Government of Apolo.
Siddharth Nair is the Project Associate at the Natural Resource Management & Biodiversity of UNDP in India.
As part of the unit, he works on natural resource management and biodiversity conservation projects in the country. He has considerable field experience in the Indian Himalayan region, including the Securing Livelihoods, Conservation, Sustainable Use and Restoration of High Range Himalayan Ecosystems Himalayas (SECURE) Project, which is a part of the Global Wildlife Program. Siddharth a master’s degree in Environment & Development from the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University, New Delhi.
If you would like to subscribe to the ASL email distribution list, please email asl-info@worldbank.org
If you like would like to join the Global Wildlife Program distribution list, please email gwp-info@worldbank.org