Tracking Change Contributions to the Mandate of the UNPFII - SpeakingNotes

• Tracking Change presentation to "Working in a 'good way'" -- 18th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Howlett, Tracy; Parlee, Brenda

• Speaking Notes - Tracking Change project contributions to the UN Tracking Change is a six year initaitve funded through the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2016-2021). Guided by a Traditional Knowledge Steering Committee (of elders, Chiefs and other leaders), it currently comprises a network of more than 60 Indigenous, Caboclos and ethnic Lao/Thai communities and partner organizations from theMackenzie (in northwestern Canada),Tapajos (part of the Lower Amazon in Brazil) and the Lower Mekong (in Thailand) River Basins. The purpose of the project is to build capacity for Indigenous peoples and local fishing communities to document and share their own knowledge about changes in the sustainability of freshwater ecosystems and the associated impacts on local fishing livelihoods. Community-based projects have resulted in new insights about these river basins as well as methdological innovations for documenting and sharing local and traditional knowledge. Tracking Change contributes to the following mandate statements: UNPFII Principles on Data Collection and Indicators, UNPFII Mandate on the Environment, UNPFII Mandate – Children and Youth

• Date created

  2019-04-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Tracking Change contributions, UNPFII Principles on Data Collection and Indicators, UNPFII Mandate on the Environment, UNPFII Mandate – Children and Youth
  • Mackenzie River Basin; Lower Mekong River Basin, Thailand; Lower Amazon River Basin, Brazil

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Presentation

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-0kdy-ay77

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International