Host Organisation

Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact

Outline

The Indigenous Navigator has developed community-based monitoring tools to document the impacts of climate change and climate change response measures on Indigenous communities. This initiative was developed to address the critical gap in locally generated and systematized data produced by Indigenous Peoples themselves. It seeks to document the extent of the impacts, abuses, and human rights violations experienced by Indigenous Peoples in the context of climate change, while also highlighting their vital contributions as custodians of lands, forests, and natural resources for the protection and sustainable management of these ecosystems. The tools have already been applied in Indigenous communities in Nepal and Bangladesh. This year, they are also being applied in additional Indigenous communities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, generating a growing body of Indigenous-led evidence on how climate change and climate policies affect Indigenous Peoples’ livelihoods, cultural integrity, and rights to their lands, territories, and resources. This side event will provide a platform to share these findings from the application of the Indigenous Navigator Climate Change Surveys. Building on lessons from Nepal and Bangladesh and the emerging data from other countries, the event will demonstrate how Indigenous-led monitoring can generate evidence on climate change impacts across Indigenous communities in different countries of the world. It will also showcase analysis on the extent to which national legal and policy frameworks in these countries protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples in climate change response measures. The event will further highlight how Indigenous-generated evidence can support more inclusive rights-based climate change policies and actions.

Speakers

The speakers will include Indigenous community leaders from countries across Asia, Latin America, and Africa who have experience conducting the Indigenous Navigator Climate Change Surveys. The event will also feature representatives from the Indigenous Navigator Consortium partners, Steering Committee members—as well as representatives from the UN human rights mechanism and experts on climate change.

Languages

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