| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | 1. Awareness raising with national ICCA networks about the situation of overlapped ICCAs, their appropriate recognition and respect, and IUCN policy. World Wide Fund for Nature Indonesia (WWF-Indonesia), Samdhana, and Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTEP-EP) have been active in the Working Group ICCAs Indonesia (WGII). WGII activities included a workshop on “community conservation” in February 2017 in which ICCA custodians shared insights into their conservation practices with NGOs and policy makers. NTFP-EP/Both Ends have also supported networks in the Philippines (Buklaran Federation of Indigenous Peoples Organizations), Malaysia (Malaysia Working Group); Vietnam (Vietnam Learning Group on ICCAs); and Myanmar (Myanmar ICCA Working Group).
| On-going |
| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | 2. Awareness raising at national meetings and workshops. IUCN and Working Group ICCAs Indonesia members WWF Indonesia and NTEP-EP organized and participated in a session at the Land Tenure conference in Indonesia in 2017. Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA) and other members have raised ICCA overlap awareness at national workshops held by the ICCA Global Support Initiative/IUCN Global Protected Area Programme. CENESTA also raised awareness about overlapped ICCAs in work on transboundary territories and protected areas in Iran with different stake-holders including civil society organisations, indigenous peoples, and government organisations in Iran and neighbouring countries. | On-going |
| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | 3. Awareness raising at regional meetings. WWF Indonesia and NTEF-EP helped create the Southeast Asia ICCA Regional Learning Network. ICCA Consortium/ West and Central Asia and the Caucasus and CENESTA held a regional workshop in Kyrgyzstan to raise regional awareness. IUCN, ICCA Consortium/ West and Central Asia and the Caucasus, and CENESTA organized a workshop in Georgia to raise awareness at the national and regional level for all stake-holders. | On-going |
| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | 4. Regional Exchanges. NTEP-EP supported the Myanmar ICCA Study Visit to the Philippines in 2017. CENESTA shared knowledge about ICCAs overlapping PAs with Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan and Turkey. | Completed |
| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | 5(a) COP13 CBD, Cancun, Mexico— two side events. The ICCA Consortium organised a side-event, “Appropriately Recognising and Respecting Indigenous Peoples' and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs) Overlapped by Protected Areas,” with case study presentations by several Members: Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA), the Asociación para la Conservación, Investigación de la Biodiversidad y el Desarrollo Sostenible (SAVIA) and the World Wildlife Fund Indonesia. This side-event was the launch event for the ICCA publication, ICCAs and Overlapping Protected Areas: Fostering Conservation Synergies and Social Reconciliation, ICCA Consortium Policy Brief Issue No.4.
(b) Co-sponsoring Member Forest Peoples Programme organized a side-event on implementation of the CBD Plan of Action on Customary Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity at which the ICCA Consortium presented on Resolution 6.030 and advocated appropriate recognition of and respect for ICCAs overlapped by protected areas as a best practice for implementing the Plan of Action. | Completed |
| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | 6. UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights. The ICCA Consortium shared news of the adoption of the Resolution with Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and John Knox, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment. | Completed |
| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | 7(a) ICCA Consortium Policy Brief #4 and ICCA Consortium Companion Report. The ICCA Consortium produced two publications with input from the Resolution proponent CENESTA and several IUCN Member co-sponsors including SAVIA, WWF-Indonesia, and Forest Peoples Programme. ICCAs and Overlapping Protected Areas: Fostering Conservation Synergies and Social Reconciliation, ICCA Consortium Policy Brief Issue No.4, ICCA Consortium, Tehran, Iran was posted to the ICCA Consortium website and also printed with support from The Christensen Fund, one of the Resolution's co-sponsors (https://goo.gl/s44HBz). A Spanish language edition is being completed.
(b) The ICCA Consortium also published online an in-depth 136-page companion report: Recognising and Respecting ICCAs Overlapped by Protected Areas. Report for the ICCA Consortium, available online at https://goo.gl/t1utHf.
(c) These publications are based on four years of research and international dialog, including a dedicated workshop at the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 in Sydney, Australia and extensive online feedback. The publications discuss the global overlap of ICCAs and protected areas, the importance of appropriate recognition of and respect for overlapped ICCAs, and important IUCN policy and international environmental and human rights legal contexts and identify principles, key approaches, and best practices for appropriate recognition of and respect for overlapped ICCAs and present a set of exemplary cases from diverse countries which illustrate five key approaches.
| Completed |
| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | 8. ICCA Consortium General Assembly 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland -- meeting on Best Practices Guidelines. IUCN WCPA Specialist Group on the Governance of Protected and Conserved Areas Co-chairs, Terence Hay-Edie (UNDP/GEF SGP) and Carmen Miranda (Resolution co-sponsor Member organization Asociación para la Conservación, Investigación de la Biodiversidad y el Desarrollo Sostenible (SAVIA) and ICCA Consortium), organized a meeting of ICCA Consortium member organization members and honourary members interested in participating in the development of a proposed volume in the IUCN WCPA publication series on Protected Areas Best Practice Guidelines, including by providing exemplary case studies. | Completed |
| Education/Communication/Raising awareness | 9. WWF Round-Table on Human Rights and Conservation. WWF Indonesia facilitated the (virtual) participation of a Steering Committee member of the ICCA Consortium in the round-table on human rights and conservation organized with WWF offices in the Asia Pacific region (April 2017). | Completed |
| Field activities | 10. Assist ICCA custodians with documentation and mapping of ICCAs within as well as outside of protected areas. WWF Indonesia has helped to document over 140,000 ha of ICCAs in Kalimantan and in coastal areas. These, including some ICCAs within protected areas, have been registered in the National Registry set up by BRWA/WGII. ICCA documentation, including mapping, is being carried out in Iran by CENESTA and UNINOMAD (Union of Indigenous Nomadic Tribes of Iran) with participatory GIS. The Foundation for Ecological Security is assisting villages in India with ICCA documentation and with obtaining official recognition of Community Forest Rights. | On-going |
| Field activities | 11. National ICCA management plan training workshops for ICCA custodians/owners and NGOs. WWF Indonesia supported national training workshops for ICCA custodians/owners and CSOs on developing ICCA management plans (May 2017). | Completed |
| Field activities | 12. Assist development of ICCA plans and related plans. WWF Indonesia, Corporation Grupo Randi Randi (CGRR), and the Foundation for Ecological Security have worked in Indonesia, Ecuador, and India with custodian indigenous peoples and local communities in preparing ICCA plans and community management plans, including in situations in which ICCAs overlap with protected areas. | On-going |
| Field activities | 13. Support ICCA management plan recognition and coordination with overlapping protected area management. From 2015-2017 Corporation Grupo Randi Randi held the coordinator position on the 22 member Management Committee which governs the Reserva Ecológica El Angel in collaboration with Ecuador’s Ministry of Environment. The protected area fully overlaps with collectively and individually-owned properties, and communities have prepared community management plans which have been recognised by the Ministry of Environment and coordinated with protected area management plans. | Completed |
| Policy influencing/advocacy | 14. COP13 CBD Decision XIII/2. The ICCA Consortium, the Resolution proponent CENESTA, and co-sponsors SAVIA and WWF Indonesia advocated for the adoption of a CBD decision noting the overlap of ICCAs and protected areas and Resolution 6.030. CBD decision XIII/2 advances one of the Resolution’s key implementation actions— development and dissemination of “best practice guidance on identification, recognition, and respect for ICCAs in protected area overlap situations” (operational par. 1 (a)). CBD Decision XIII/2 (par. 7) “Invites Parties and, where appropriate, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the ICCA Consortium and other partners in consultation with the Secretariat, to develop voluntary guidance and best practices on identifying and recognizing territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities, including in situations of overlap with protected areas, and their potential contribution to the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.” | Completed |
| Policy influencing/advocacy | 15. National law development and implementation advocacy in the Philippines, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. NTEF-EP has conducted advocacy in support of an ICCA Bill in the Philippines that upholds traditional governance of ICCAs in situations in which they overlap with protected areas. WWF Indonesia is advocating special recognition for ICCAs within protected areas in the form of a decree for recognition of customary forests. The Working Group for Indonesia ICCAs, including WWF Indonesia, NTEF-EP, and Samdhana, is providing support for advocacy in the Indonesian parliament, and also put forward a recommendation at the Tenure Conference in Indonesia in 2017 for recognizing ICCAs overlapping with protected areas as part of a roadmap for agrarian and forest reform pledged by the current national government. NTFP-EP (with PanNature) is engaged with a revision of the protected area law in Vietnam which will recognize cultural, sacred and religious forests (all types of ICCAs) as protected areas and community-managed watershed protection (also a type of ICCA) as protection forests. The Foundation for Ecological Security is working in India for implementation of the 2006 Forest Act, which enables recognition of ICCAs inside protected areas. | On-going |
| Policy influencing/advocacy | 16. Best Practices Guidelines. During 2017 a proposal was developed by Stan Stevens (ICCA Consortium), Terence Hay-Edie (GEF-SGP), and Carmen Miranda (IUCN Member SAVIA) (the latter two are also the co-chairs of the WCPA’s Specialist Group on the Governance of Protected and Conserved Areas) for a volume in IUCN’s Protected Areas Best Practice Guidelines series on recognizing and respecting ICCAs which overlap with protected areas. This volume would advance implementation of Resolution operative paragraph 1 (a), which calls on IUCN to “develop, disseminate, and urge implementation of best practice guidance on identification, recognition, and respect for ICCAs in protected area overlap situations.” The process of developing the Guidelines will involve Members in a dialog in 2018-2019 to identifying key principles, good practices, and exemplary case studies. This should include international meetings as well as an online consultation process. The completion of the volume is planned for a launch at the 2020 IUCN World Conservation Congress and CBD COP15 in 2020. | On-going |
| Policy influencing/advocacy | 17. ICCA Consortium General Assembly 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland. During the General Assembly a meeting was convened of ICCA Consortium member organization members and honorary members interested in participating in the development of a proposed volume in the IUCN WCPA publication series on Protected Areas Best Practice Guidelines, including by providing exemplary case studies. | Completed |
