AMMAN —
Under the patronage of
Her Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal, the
workshop “Dana+20: Mobile Indigenous Peoples, Conservation, Sustainable
Development, and Climate Change” will be held between September 7 and 10 at
Wadi Dana Nature Reserve.
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The event is
organized by the
Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature in Jordan in
cooperation with the Refugee Studies Centre from the Department of
International Development at the University of Oxford, and the Forest Peoples
Programme — an international NGO.
As the 20th
anniversary of the Dana Declaration, which was signed in Wadi Dana in 2002,
approaches, the workshop will take stock of ecological, and technical
developments of the past two decades and bring the implications for local
communities to the attention of global forums.
The Dana+20
workshop aspires to outline forward-moving ways in consultation with local
community representatives, to improve engagement in the interrelated priorities
of conservation, climate adaptation/resilience, habitat loss and sustainable
development.
The workshop
seeks to work with local communities as holders of rights and agents of change
to reconfirm, direct, and review ways to improve participation and maintain
sustainability in the interrelated priorities of environmental conservation,
climate change adaptation, and natural habitat protection.
Establishing a
strategic framework to reduce the marginalization of local communities is a
crucial objective of the conference, as is addressing the issues faced by local
communities in the context of the aforementioned priorities.
At the close of
the workshop a Dana+20 statement will be delivered.
The funders of
the workshop include the Rights and Resources Initiative, the Wenner-Gren Foundation,
University of Nevada, the Council for British Research in the Levant, Misereor,
and the United Nations Development Program Small Grants Program.
The conference
will also aim to develop an action plan to advance the rights of local
communities in international and national policy making on protected areas
through a detailed work program to mainstream the concerns of local communities
concerning adaptation to climate change and sustainable development models.
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