Organização anfitriã

Asia Young Indigenous Peoples Network (AYIPN), Ngāti Manuhiri Settlements Trust, Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP), Right Energy Partnership with Indigenous Peoples, Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy (AIPNEE), Land is Life, Métis National Council 

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Across climate, ocean and water policy, Indigenous Peoples are increasingly acknowledged as knowledge holders, but rarely as primary investment recipients. Indigenous stewardship, the place-based, intergenerational responsibility and practices Indigenous Peoples exercise over lands and waters, continues to be treated as a by-product or supplementary activity to other interventions (payments for ecosystem services, safeguards, supply-chain commitments) rather than funded as a core central response to multiple challenges in their own right. The Indigenous Peoples’ Water Governance Initiative has been conceived to correct this oversight by increasing the capacity for Indigenous leadership on water and ensure that Indigenous stewardship can take centre stage in global responses to multi-faceted land and water challenges. Regional and basin-level activities, convened under Indigenous Peoples’ leadership across socio-cultural regions, are already generating documented water governance practices, recommendations and identified experts and knowledge holders. What is missing in the water sector is not evidence of stewardship's value, but sustained, direct investment in the stewards themselves and the institutions that carry this work forward toward 2026, 2028 and beyond. This session makes the case that investing in Indigenous Peoples’ stewardship, and in initiatives that support operationalization, can deliver a wider set of benefits than single-purpose water projects can: healthier freshwater and coastal systems, stronger community institutions, and a credible, Indigenous-led evidence base feeding directly into global water governance processes. Objectives: Introduce the Indigenous Peoples’ Water Governance Initiative, its regional forums, outputs to date, and its role feeding into the 2026 and 2028 UN Water Conferences. Identify concrete funding pathways and interested funding partners (governments, philanthropy, multilateral finance) willing to resource the Initiative directly. Connect Indigenous Peoples’ stewardship investment to the wider hydrological and climate benefits it creates, including investment in downstream and coastal communities. Structure: Opening remarks situating stewardship within the current climate and water finance landscape. Moderated dialogue with Indigenous stewardship practitioners, regional forum representatives, and potential funders. Presentation of the Indigenous Peoples Water Governance Initiative's structure and current funding gap. Open floor for expressions of interest and questions from delegations and funders present. Closing summary of concrete next steps and follow-up contacts.

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The speakers of the event will be the following:

1. Robie Halip, Kalanguya and Kankanaey Peoples, Rights Energy Partnership with Indigenous Peoples (Philippines)

2. Tiana Jakicevich, Māori People, Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust (New Zealand)

3. Cindy Yohana, Wairasa People, Asia Young Indigenous Peoples Network (Indonesia)

4. Daniel Kobei, Ogiek Peoples, Executive Director, Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP) (Kenya)

5. Luisa Castaneda Quintana , Executive Director, Land is Life. (Colombia)

6. Jennifer Pylypiw, Métis Peoples, Senior Policy Advisor on Climate Change, Métis National Council (Canada)

Moderator: Satej Chakma, Executive Council Member, Asia Young Indigenous Peoples Network (AYIPN) (Bangladesh).

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