As of June 10\, 2019\, Luis-Felipe Duchicela serves as the Senior Advisor for Indigenous Peoples' Issues at the
Inclusive Development Hub of USAID’s Bureau for Development\, Democracy and
Innovation (DDI)\, based in Washington\, DC.[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzH is7l0bew[/embed]
A Policy with a Vision for Self-Determined Development f
or Indigenous Peoples Globally
Luis Felipe Duchicela launched the USAID Policy for Promo
ting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in March 2020. The lecture will expla
in the central tenets of this policy and how this policy represents a pivot
al change in international engagement cooperation with Indigenous peoples b
ecause it enhanced their ability to protect their rights\, determine their
own priorities\, and advance their self-determined development and self-rel
iance.
Musqueam Welcome: Elder Larry Grant\, Adjunct Professor\, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program\; Consultant\, Musqueam Lan guage and Culture Department
Moderator: Grace Jaramillo\, Sessional Instructor\, Master of Public Policy and Glo
bal Affairs program\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC
Speaker’s Bio:
As of June 10\, 2019\, Luis-Felipe Duchicela serves as the Senior Advisor for Indigenous Peoples' Issues at the
Inclusive Development Hub of USAID’s Bureau for Development\, Democracy and
Innovation (DDI)\, based in Washington\, DC.
In this capacity\, he p rovides advice to the USAID Administrator on matters related to the rights and needs of Indigenous Peoples internationally and represents the U.S. Gov ernment (USG) on such matters in meetings with foreign governments and mult ilateral institutions. He also provides oversight and coordination of USG r esources\, programs\, projects and activities to protect the rights and add ress the needs of Indigenous Peoples and develops and coordinates assistanc e strategies for Indigenous Peoples with specific goals\, guidelines\, benc hmarks and impact assessments (including support for local Indigenous Peopl es organizations).
Prior to USAID\, Luis Felipe served as Global Advi sor on Indigenous Peoples at the World Bank from January 2013 until his ret irement from the Bank in June 2018. His primary mandate at the World Bank w as to create a constructive dialogue with Indigenous Peoples worldwide to a chieve deeper understanding and to work together towards sustainable develo pment and assist World Bank regional and country offices to better assess t he situation of Indigenous Peoples and prepare plans and programs that take into account their ancestral knowledge\, cultural identity\, legal rights and their linkages to their natural habitats and resources. From 2013 to 20 16\, Luis Felipe led the global dialogue between the Bank and the Indigenou s Peoples of the world as part of the reform process of the Bank’s Environm ental and Social policies\, which culminated in August 2016 with the approv al by the Board of the new Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) of the Bank and the new Standard for Indigenous Peoples (ESS7).
Prior to joi ning the World Bank\, Luis Felipe was the Executive Director of the Amazon Conservation Association (ACA)\, a Washington\, DC-based NGO that focuses o n biodiversity scientific research and conservation in the Amazon regions o f Peru and Bolivia. Prior to that he served as the Regional Director for U SAID-funded programs with the Rainforest Alliance\, a non-governmental orga nization working to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihood s – first in Central America and Mexico\, and thereafter in Ecuador and the Andean Amazon Region (Colombia\, Ecuador\, Peru and Bolivia)\, where he wa s in charge of promoting Best Management Practices and Sustainable Liveliho ods in Agriculture (coffee\, cocoa\, bananas and other crops)\, Forestry (T imber\, Brazil nut and other NTFP's) and Tourism in fragile ecosystems of t hese countries. Luis Felipe also worked on several other USAID-funded proje cts where he promoted sustainable agricultural production and exports from the Chapare region of Bolivia and then directed cocoa production in the Ecu adorean Amazon.
He was also the first National Secretary (Minister) o f Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minority Affairs of the Republic of Ecuador in 1994\, under the Presidency of Sixto Duran-Ballén\, and managed to crea te the first multimillion dollar program ($50 mm) exclusively for Indigenou s Peoples and Afro-Ecuadorean development with World Bank\, IFAD and Govern ment funding (the PRODEPINE Project).
Earlier in his career\, he work ed with Chiquita Brands International in various countries in Latin America in administration and finance\, in operational and management positions an d also in environmental and corporate responsibility projects.
Luis F elipe holds a Master’s degree in Public and Private Management from Yale Un iversity with emphasis in Finance\, Corporate Strategies and Quantitative A nalysis\, and his Bachelor’s degree is in Architecture and Regional Plannin g from the Universidad Central del Ecuador in Quito.
Luis Felipe’s co untry of origin is Ecuador\, of Quechua descent\, from the Puruhá People of the Chimborazo province in the central Andes of Ecuador\, which was part o f the Inca Empire in pre-Hispanic times.
Moderator’s Bio:
Grace Jaramillo is a sessional instructor with the UBC Master of Pub lic Policy and Global Affairs program. She earned her PhD from Queen’s Univ ersity in 2016. Immediately after\, she won a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to study institutional spillovers of Free Trade Agreements in the Americas \, spending the first year at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at University of Waterloo\, and then moving this research project to UBC t o complete her research studying the CPTPP negotiations.
Before movin g to Canada\, she was an accomplished International Relations expert and he ad of the Department of International Relations at FLACSO-Ecuador. She was nominated twice to the annual list of “20 most prominent young thinkers of Latin America” by the Development Bank of Latin America\, CAF and Brookings Institution.
Musqueam Elder’s Bio: Larry Grant\, Musqueam Elder\, wa s born and raised in Musqueam traditional territory by a traditional hən̓q̓ əmin̓əm̓ speaking Musqueam family. After 4 decades as a tradesman\, Larry e nrolled in the First Nations Languages Program\, which awoke his memory of the embedded value that the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language has to self-identity\, kinship\, culture\, territory\, and history prior to European contact. He i s presently assisting in revitalizing hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ in the Musqueam Langua ge and Culture Department\, and co-teaching the introductory hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ course through UBC.
Larry is the Elder-in-Residence at U BC’s First Nations House of Learning. He is a Faculty Fellow at St. John’s College\, and the inaugural Honorary Life Fellow for Green College. In 2010 \, he received the Alumni Award of Distinction from Vancouver Community Col lege\, and in 2014\, he became an Honorary Graduate from the Indigenous Tea cher Education Program (NITEP) at UBC.
Hosted by: The School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC
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