2020 is the final year to prepare for a number of international co mmitments on sustainable forest governance. The post-2020 biodiversity agen da and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration will accelerate global action on forest conservation\, restoration\, and sustainable use. Indigenous voi ces are critical in ensuring that international processes reflect and respe ct traditional knowledge innovations and practices.
The webinar will look outside the Canadian context to explore how Indigenous voices are cont ributing to and can accelerate sustainable forest governance. A panel of ex perts from the United Nations and the University of British Columbia will s hare their own perspectives and experiences on the process of strengthening Indigenous forest governance rights and recognition. Speakers will discuss the value of Indigenous forest governance and introduce existing mechanism s that support its recognition.
Date: June 25th \, 9am-10am PDT
Registration link: Zo om
Speakers:
Dr.
Musonda Mumba is currently the head of the UN Environment’s Terrestrial Ec
osystems Team\, with over 20 years’ experience in environmental and con
servation issues globally. She recently became the new Chair of the Global Partnership on Fores
t and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR). Her responsibilities include prov
iding leadership on Forests and Climate Change\, Integrated Landscape Manag
ement (ILM) Approaches\, technical expertise to governments globally\, deve
loping appropriate policy dialogue and strategic direction around Terrestri
al Ecosystems. She has published widely in various journals\, newspapers\,
articles and contributed to book chapters. She will also be the UN Enviro
nment lead on Terrestrial Ecosystems for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021 –
2030)\, a UN General Assembly Resolution that was passed on 1st
March 2019.
John Scott is an Indigenous descendan
t from North-Eastern Australia. He is the Senior Programme Officer for the
Peoples and Biodiversity Unit and the focal point for Indigenous peoples an
d local communities at the CBD S
ecretariat. Mr. Scott has a background in education\, social policy\, l
aw\, Indigenous rights and traditional knowledge. He was an Aboriginal Educ
ation Advisor\; CEO for Aboriginal Programs\; Deputy Director for the Schoo
l of Indigenous Studies at James Cook University\; Manager of the Cultural
Unit with National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission\; Indig
enous Human Rights Officer with the United Nations High Commission on Human
Rights\, and Social Affairs Officer at the Secretariat of the United Natio
ns Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Mr. Scott has a Diploma in Seconda
ry Teaching\, a Graduate Diploma in Aboriginal Education\, and a Masters of
(Indigenous) Legal Studies – International Indigenous Rights and Constitut
ional Law Reform.
Helina Jolly is a Ph.D. c
andidate and National Geographic Explorer (2018) at the Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability. An e
cologist and environmental policy analyst by training\, she studies the rel
ationship between forest ecosystems and Kattunayakans\, a lesser-known hunt
er-gatherer Indigenous People of South India. Her doctoral research examine
s the complexities of human and nature connections in these societies throu
gh the conversations on human-wildlife interactions\, food security\, fores
t fire and rights- capabilities. As a part of her Ph.D. work\, she directed
and produced an ethnographic documentary Gidiku Vapathu (2020)\, on Kattun
ayaka People to understand how these traditional societies perceive and int
eract with forest and non-human beings. Helina is also the founder of an in
ternational web-based project\, ‘The Everyday Nature’ that focuses on documenting the perception of pe
ople towards nature. She also leads the Collective for Gender+ in Research
at the UBC that seeks to develop a network to articulate methods and tools
to engage gender in research. Before joining UBC\, Helina worked in India f
or six years on various environmental projects in South Asia with the Germa
n Development Cooperation (GIZ)\, Centre for Science and Environment and Cl
inton Climate Initiative. She is a Commonwealth Scholar and has an MSc in E
nvironmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and
Political Science.
Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono is an Associate Professor\, Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods\, at
the UBC’s Faculty of Forestry. Intu
worked for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and t
he United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) based in Switzerland. Over the
course of her career\, Intu has devoted much of her time in Africa and SE
Asia and spent several years working in the Malinau Research Forest region
in North Kalimantan\, Indonesia\, with the Center for International Forestr
y Research (CIFOR). Intu has worked with multidisciplinary teams in remote
locations in tropical landscapes and seascapes in Asia\, Africa and Latin A
merica. She has focussed on issues with Indigenous people and local communi
ties\, particularly on the importance of their traditional knowledge and wi
se practices in natural resources management and the conservation of their
cultural diversity. Intu’s research has sought to enable forest-dependent p
eople\, coastal communities and Indigenous groups to achieve a balance betw
een conservation and social\, cultural and economic development.
This event will be moderated by CIRDI’s Director of Program Delivery\, Jaime Revenaz Webbe .
The panel will be preceded by a short presentation on the recent CI RDI paper “< strong>Indigenous Forest Governance: Challenges\, Enabling Conditions\, and Factors for Success“ by Dr. Joleen Timko\, a social scientist and technical forestry expert.
This webinar will b e recorded and shared on the CIRDI website following the event. The recordi ng will not include attendees’ names nor their video or audio.
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