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Advocacy Events
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, IFAD and Its Partners: The Way Forward
Rome Italy Monday 15 December, 2003
9 am to 6 pm Casa San Bernardo, Sala Beato Eugenio
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was created by ECOSOC in 2001 with a mandate to raise awareness and promote integration and coordination of activities related to indigenous issues within the UN system. Four members of the Forum - Ole Henrik Magga, (Chairperson), Antonio Jacanamijoy, Ayitegan Kouevi and Parshuram Tamang - and Lee Swepston of ILO will join IFAD staff to share information about the mandate, scope of work and programmes of the Forum and to familiarize themselves about the work of IFAD and partner agencies related to indigenous issues. Two round tables will be held in the afternoon on Access to land and related resources and on Indigenous knowledge and natural resources management . See attached agenda for details.
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Agenda
15 December , 2003
Casa San Bernardo, Via Laurentina 289, Sala Beato Eugenio
| 9:00 | Welcoming remarks |
| 9:10 | IFAD Mandate, Mechanisms and Scope of Work: institutional and operational dimensions - Gary Howe, Director, Eastern and Southern Africa Division |
| 9:25 | The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - Ole Henrik Magga, (Chairperson), Antonio Jacanamijoy, Ayitegan Kouevi and Parshuram Tamang, (members), Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues |
| 10:15 | Indigenous Issues and the UN System- An Overview - Lee Swepston, ILO |
| 10:30 | Questions/Discussion |
| 11:00 | Coffee Brake |
| 11:15 | IFAD engagement on Indigenous Issues - Chair - Raquel Peña Montenegro, Director, Latin America Division - The regional strategies of Latin America, Asia and Pacific, Eastern and Southern Africa (Raul Hopkins, Ganesh Thapa and Edward Heinemann, Regional Economists) |
| 11:45 | Ten years of experience with PRAIA - Juan Carlos Schultze, Director, PRAIA |
| 12:15 | Questions/Discussion |
| 12:45 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 | Round Table - Access to Land and Related Resources - Chair, Bruce Moore, Co-ordinator, International Land Coalition - Panellists: two members of the Permanent Forum Members, Barbara Codispoti (Assistant Programme Officer, International Land Coalition) Enrique Murguia (CPM, PA) and Shyam Khadka (CPM, PI) |
| 14:45 | Questions/Discussion |
| 15:15 | Coffee Brake |
| 15:30 | Round Table - Indigenous knowledge and natural resources management - Chair Mohamed Béavogui, Director, West and Central Africa) - Panellists: two members of the Permanent Forum, Ana Saez (Programme Manager, Global Mechanism of UNCCD), Mohamed Ben Senia (CPM, PA) and Mattia Prayer Galletti (CPM, PI) |
| 16:30 | Questions/Discussion |
| 17:00 | Identification of areas of improved collaboration between IFAD, partner organizations and the PFII as well as with other UN agencies - Chair Gunilla Olsson, Director, Policy Division, EAD |
| 18:00 | Synthesis and Closure - Mr. Phrang Roy, Assistant President, EAD |
International Land Coalition
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