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Submit your ideas
The International Steering Committee for the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 is currently calling for leadership of the proposed streams for the Congress. The agreed streams will be announced once this process has been concluded at the end of March 2014, depending on the interest and focus that interested partners are prepared to support. In the meantime, as these proposals are being conducted, the following proposed streams and stream content are the basis for the ISC’s deliberations. You can contribute to this process by submitted your own ideas for stream content or events that will help the Congress achieve its objectives.
- Reaching conservation goals (meeting Target 11; ensuring PA quality; developing institutional and financial capacity);
- Responding to climate change (nature-based solutions for climate adaptation; mitigation; disaster risk reduction; food security);
- Improving health and wellbeing (role of PAs in human health promotion and disease prevention; medical, insurance and public health practice)
- Supporting human life (economic, cultural and spiritual values of PAs; watershed protection; food production; human livelihoods);
- Reconciling development challenges (engagement with key development sectors; integrated development planning at landscape/seascape scale; addressing trade-offs for conservation and development);
- Broadening participation (governance diversity and quality; rights-based conservation);
- Respecting cultural landscapes and sacred sites, (respecting a diverse constituency of indigenous peoples, cultures and philosophies; recognition and use of indigenous and traditional knowledge; understanding sacred natural sites)
- Inspiring a new generation (creating awareness of PAs, engaging youth, developing young professionals, communication, technology and social media).
