First published on 01/31/2015, and last updated on 11/27/2017
Twenty-one individuals affiliated the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) gathered for the Inception meeting of the largest global fund for ICCAs: Support to indigenous peoples’ and community conserved areas and territories (ICCAs) through the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP).
The German government, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have formed a new partnership to create the largest global fund for territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs). The initiative is entitled ‘Support to indigenous peoples’ and community conserved areas and territories (ICCAs) through the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP)’, will be financed over five years as a contribution to the achievement of targets contained in the CBD Aichi 2020 framework, and will work in at least 26 countries at the global level.
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From 27th to 30th January 2015, twenty-one individuals affiliated with the implementing partners of the initiative gathered at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) headquarters in Gland, Switzerland to discuss definitions and work processes.
The implementing partners are the UNDP GEF SGP, the ICCA Consortium, the IUCN Global Protected Areas Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP WCMC).
Other organisations present were the Equator Initiative, which is currently coordinating the World Indigenous Network (WIN) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
Four days of explanations, discussions, presentations and group work resulted in a greater understanding of the definition and complexities of ICCAs, and an agreement on a timeline of activities for the four implementing partners to carry out work throughout 2015. Attendees heard about ICCA examples from Central America, Ecuador, Iran, China, The Philippines, Kenya, Namibia and other countries around the world.
The initiative will act at as an umbrella for coherent projects of many partners and is designed to improve recognition, support and effectiveness of ICCAs by enhancing capacities at many levels. Through that, it will support the diversity, quality and vitality of governance of the global network of “protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures” as articulated in the Promise of Sydney of the World Parks Congress of 2014.
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