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Tracking Change – Summary of Issues: Public Presentations at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (April 29-May 4, 2019)
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Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance -- Global Knowledge Symposium UN New York 2019
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Tracking Change is a six year initiative 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 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 sustainability of freshwater ecosystems and the associated impacts on local fishing livelihoods and well-being. Community-based projects have resulted in new insights about these river basins as well as methodological innovations for documenting and sharing local and Traditional Knowledge. The project contributes to the following mandates of UNPFII: UNPFII Principles on Data Collection and Indicators, UNPFII Mandate on the Environment – Community-Based Monitoring and Information Systems (CBMIS), UNPFII Mandate on the Environment –
Climate Change, UNPFII Mandate on the Environment, and the UNPFII Mandate on Children and Youth. -
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- 2019-02-01
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- Tracking Change, Traditional Knowledge, capacity-building, local fishing communities, sustainability of freshwater ecosystems, climate change, resource development, fishing livelihoods, Community-based projects, UNPFII Principles on Data Collection and Indicators, UNPFII Mandate on the Environment – Community-Based Monitoring and Information Systems (CBMIS), UNPFII Mandate on the Environment –Climate Change, UNPFII Mandate on the Environment, UNPFII Mandate on Children and Youth.
- Mackenzie River Basin (Canada), Lower Mekong Basin (Thailand), Lower Amazon Basin, Brazil
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- Conference/Workshop Presentation