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Collective Action by Indigenous peoples and local communities - Reporting and Indicators under Aichi Targets including the financial reporting framework

Organizer
SwedBio at Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Date and Time
2 November 2015 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Nineteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice

The contribution of collective action and customary sustainable use by indigenous peoples and local communities to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use has been recognized in several CBD decisions such as at COP12 decisions on Article 8j and Article 10c, as well as Decision XII/3 on Resource mobilization that recognizes the role of collective action and include activities that encourage and support collective action approaches into reporting. At this side event results from a Dialogue Workshop on Assessment of Collective Action in Biodiversity Conservation will be presented of. It took place from 11-13 June 2015 in Panajachel, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, in response to COP12 decisions. Key outcomes that will be presented relates to - Values, valuation and measurement of the benefits of collective action and its contribution to biological diversity - Methods for measuring and aggregating data related to collective action - Indicators and equivalents for reporting collective action in the financial reporting framework of CBD. Conveners of the dialogue were the Government of Guatemala through the National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The workshop was organized by SwedBio at Stockholm Resilience Centre, with economic support from the European Commission, Japan Biodiversity Fund and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) via SwedBio. The local host in Guatemala was Asociación Sotz´il.