Indigenous leaders from Brazil, Colombia and Peru met for the first time to exchange and discuss concrete land-management and governance strategies that have contributed to the conservation of their territory, recognition of their rights and safeguarding of their culture.
Four day summit in which leaders discussed the best options, based on their ancestral wisdom, for preserving and protecting the vast territory covering almost 200 million hectares from the Andes to the Amazon rainforest to the Atlantic. The meeting was led by indigenous representatives, with technical support of the North Amazon Alliance and financial support...
“Collaborative Governance in Practice: State – Building between Indigenous Organizations and Local Governments”. The North-amazon alliance members organized a panel in which indigenous leaders and local governors discussed how State building in tropical regions can be done, and has been done, hand in hand with indigenous peoples. GCF Annual Meeting, May 2019, Florencia – Caquetá,...
Alliance members participated in the Putumayo Corridor Workshop held in Leticia, Colombia. Indigenous leaders, NGOs, and government officials from Peru and Colombia met in a 4 day workshop to envision a cross-border collaborative work to protect the Putumayo river basin, one of the most biodiverse places in the world. February 2019, Leticia, Colombia. The event...
