Indigenous conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity – Transformative Pathways collaboration launched

Launched in the second half of 2022, Transformative Pathways is a joint initiative led by indigenous organisations in five countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and supported by a network of global partners, including Forest Peoples Programme.

The project directly supports collective actions towards self-determined land and resource governance, biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods. It will co-develop community-owned biodiversity monitoring frameworks so that involved communities can collect, use, and present evidence, and demonstrate the outcomes of their actions. The project will work with national governments and other key actors to develop mechanisms to allow full and equitable participation in national biodiversity-related policy and planning. 

Our collective aim is to support improved conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity by recognising, supporting and expanding the actions and contributions of indigenous peoples. This multi-year project will run for 6 years, from 2022 to 2028.

As this action is carefully designed to complement and engage with wider networks, we expect the impacts from project activities to extend well beyond both the project period and the countries involved.

Outcome

The project aims to achieve the recognition, support and scaling up of biodiversity conservation and sustainable use by indigenous peoples and local communities by:

• strengthening land and resource governance at the territory level;
• improving enabling conditions to recognize indigenous and local knowledge at the national level;
• establishing or strengthening partnerships for participation in biodiversity planning and monitoring at the local, national and global levels, including CBD processes

Read more on the project website, including background and objectives.

Indigenous partner organisations

• Chepkitale Indigenous People Development Project (CIPDP)
• Indigenous Information Network (IIN)
• The Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation (GTANW)
• CHIRAPAQ, Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú
• Partners for Indigenous Knowledge Philippines (PIKP) 
• Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in Thailand Association (IMPECT)
• Pgakenyaw Association for Sustainable Development (PASD)

Global supporting partners

The Transformative Pathways project brings together a unique set of global collaborative partners. They will assist, support and expand work done on a national level and ensure the project’s global impact and knowledge transfer. Working with these partners will give the project access to valuable global networks, through which successful initiatives could be scaled up significantly.

• University of Oxford’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS)
• UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
• Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
• LifeMosaic
• Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)

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