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Article

19 Sep 2013

Author:
Rights and Resources Initiative, Oxfam, IUCN, ILC, Helvetas, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Scaling-Up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights

Forest Peoples Programme, on behalf of the “legal recognition and empowerment” group, noted the wide range of views in the group and highlighted a number of legal pathways for local land rights...Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago...stressed the urgency for more mapping of boundaries, rights and communities, policy processes at the national level, and global threats to indigenous communities...International Finance Corporation, for the “private sector interest in securing community land rights” group, noted that much progress has been made and good practice examples exist from the private sector...HELVETAS, for the “making community land rights a global priority” group, highlighted that there was disagreement on definitional issues, for example on the use of terms such as “indigenous” versus “place-based” people...IUCN, on behalf of the “deepening synergies between rights and conservation” group, discussed approaches in conservation arenas to address community concerns.