Side Event

NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: INTERFACE OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES WITH INDIGENOUS SYSTEMS

Organizer
UNDP, Regional Indigenous People's Programme and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation

Date and Time
21 March 2006 18:30 - 20:15

Meeting
Eighth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 8)

The proposed side event to be held at the 8th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will be an opportunity to showcase the work of the Regional Indigenous Peoples' Programme on the interface between government policies and indigenous practice on Natural Resource Management in selected Asian countries.Natural Resource Management policies in Asia represent the framework through which indigenous peoples and governments interact in land access, resource access and resource management, and a diverse range of policies exist in the region. There are both positive cases of partnership and emerging collaborative management, and cases of conflict between governments and indigenous peoples on resource access.The objective of the side event is to foster dialogue between representatives of government present at the CBD, independent researchers and indigenous peoples around the key emerging issues from a series of research papers on natural resource management commissioned by UNDP.