‘The Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) is a regional organization established by indigenous peoples’ organizations in 1992 to strengthen the struggles, cooperation and solidarity among indigenous peoples across Asia. AIPP is committed to the cause of defending and revitalizing indigenous systems; institutions and their control over their ancestral homelands; and their own development and future.
AIPP is guided by its Charter and Working Guidelines agreed upon by its General Assembly. At present, AIPP has members from 14 Countries and has broad network for cooperation and solidarity with other organizations, institutions and advocates at national,regional and global levels.’
Fifth Regional Workshop of the Collaborative Management Learning Network
Fifth Regional Workshop
of the Collaborative Management Learning
Network (CMNL), Phase 2
Adaptive Co-management
of Protected Areas with Indigenous Peoples in
South-East Asia
--
Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia, 17-20th
November 2009 --
ENSURING
EFFECTIVE AND MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN COLLABORATIVE
MANAGEMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS
The Co-Management
Learning Network in South-East Asia (CMNL) Phase 1 was initiated
in 2005. The focus of the network was to strengthen the capacities of
key actors in a number of protected areas (PA) sites in South East Asia.
The initiative spans seven countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,
Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam and in each country a site has been
selected where co-management of a protected area is on-going or evolving,
and concerned indigenous peoples are specifically engaged. The key actors
from each selected CM site include PA managers, representatives of Indigenous
Peoples and local communities, staff of non-governmental organizations,
policy makers, local administrators and others. Throughout the
CMNL initiative, these people have met in regional workshops, shared
their experience and supported one another towards setting up and nourishing
shared governance settings in their sites.