Side Event

Demystifying Community Protocols

Organizer
Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment, COMPAS, UNU-IAS, ABS Capacity Development Initiative for Africa, UNEP, and Equator Initiative

Date and Time
26 October 2010 18:15 - 19:45

Meeting
Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10)

Indigenous peoples and local communities are developing and using rights-based approaches to support endogenous development processes and engage with external stakeholders according to their own values, priorities, and customary laws. "Community protocols" are a rights-based approach referenced in the incumbent international regime on access and benefit sharing and should be rooted within endogenous development processes. This event will explore the theoretical and practical application of community protocols in relation to external frameworks such as ABS and protected areas and to endogenous processes towards local well-being. It will address critiques, successes, methodologies, regional experiences, and policy implications. Presenters will include representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities and their collaborating organizations. The 17th issue of Policy Matters, the IUCN-CEESP journal, will also be launched at this side event. The title of this issue is 'Exploring the Right to Diversity in Conservation Law, Policy, and Practice'.