IV Workshop on REDD for Panamanian Indigenous Leaders
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Summary
Indigenous peoples are bound to play an important role in the fight against global warming, in particular due to their potential to participate in activities to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in tropical forests. In Panama, where the rights of indigenous communities over their forests have been legally recognized, these communities will need to decide if they want to engage in such initiatives. But in order to make this crucial decision, they need training and open discussion about the topic. To that end, three training workshops on the topic of REDD have been offered to date. This fourth workshop updated participants on the most recent developments of the international climate change negotiations and the advances of REDD, in order to provide communities with the information they need to make decisions that will affect their future.
Content
DAY 1. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26
Travel, welcome, and introduction to the workshop
Welcome and introduction to the workshop
Set-up of COONAPIP table
Board of Directors
Religious invocation
Pastor William Berrugate
Welcome remarks by COONAPIP and participants introduction
Gilberto Arias (COONAPIP)
Welcome remarks by regional Embera authority
Augustine Deraiza (regional chief)
Institutional policy framework of the indigenous people
Betanio Chiquidama
Review of goals of IV Workshop and previous workshops, and participants' expectations
Heraclio Herrera, Jorge Ventocilla
Traditional community activity
DAY 2. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Brief Introduction to ELTI
Javier Mateo-Vega, Eva Garen
Introduction to Rainforest Foundation US
Marina Campos
FIRST TOPIC: The negotiations in Copenhaguen (December 2009) and the status of REDD
What happened in Copenhaguen? Results and implications
Catherine Potvin
Questions and discussion
SECOND TOPIC: Carbon ownership and Indigenous communities
Introduction to the topic
Catherine Potvin
Update on the experience of OUDCI in Ipetí-Embera
Jeremías Cansari
Questions and discussion
THIRD TOPIC: COONAPIP, Climate Change and REDD
COONAPIP's accomplishments on the topics (UN-REDD, R-Plan) and next steps
Heraclio Herrera, Heraclio López, Betanio Chiquidama
Draft information materials for communities on climate change and REDD
Jorge Ventocilla, Ologuagdi
Movie session
DAY 3. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28
FOURTH TOPIC: Latin American experience exchange
Experience 1 - The Juma project: emissions reduction of greenhouse gases from deforestation in the state of Amazonas, Brazil + questions and discussion
Raquel Luna Viggiani (Fundação Amazonas Sustentavel-FAS)
Experience 2 - A benefit-sharing project in the Brazilian Amazon: relations between the Iratapurú community and the NATURA cosmetics industry + questions and discussion
Gustavo Bornemann (AMAPAZ-DS Projetos Sustentáveis, Brasil)
FIFTH TOPIC: Lessons Learned from the workshops
Discussion of lessons learned
Johanne Pelletier
Should we continue with the training process? How?
Eva Garen, Jorge Ventocilla
Workshop evaluation
Javier Mateo-Vega
Certificates
COONAPIP, OJEWP, ELTI, McGill
Work Plan Presentation – Ratification of the Agreement 169
Sara Omi (Ombudsman for the local people)
A statement of Panama's original people on the issue of Climate Change
COONAPIP
DAY 4. MONDAY, MARCH 1
Departure of participants