Tracking Change: Stories of Change: A Side Event of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues May 2, 2019 - Public Presentation and Discussion

• Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance -- Global Knowledge Symposium UN New York 2019

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Howlett, Tracy; Parlee, Brenda

• Discussion Summary: "Stories of Change". Tracking Change is a six year resarch program funded through the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2016-2021) and other partners. Guided by a Traditional Knowledge Steering Committee (of elders, Chiefs and other leaders), it currently comprises a network of more than 60 Indigenous, Caboclos/Riverine and ethnic Lao/Thai communities and partner organizations from northwestern Canada (Mackenzie), Tapajos (Lower Amazon) and the Lower Mekong 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 sustainabiltiy of freshwater ecosystems and the associated impacts on local fishing livelihoods. More than 40 community led projects have been supported and resulted in new insights about these river basins as well as methdological innovations for documenting and sharing local and traditional knowledge.

• Date created

  2019-02-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Tracking Change, capacity-building, Indigenous peoples, fishing communities, sustainability of freshwater ecosystems, fishing livelihoods. local and traditional knowledge.
  • Mackenzie River Basin, Canada; Lower Mekong River Basin, Thailand; Lower Amazon River Basin (Tapajos Basin), Brazil

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Presentation

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-mp56-s988

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International