Bridges Trade BioRes (CEESP/GETI publication), special issue for the 3rd World Conservation Congress (download entire publication as PDF file)

• International Trade – Friend or Foe of Biodiversity?
• Certification for Sustainability
• Cutting our losses – reducing illegal trade in natural resources
• What Future For Asia’s Wildlife Trade
• Social Justice and Equity in Conservation
• Trade @ the Members' Business Assembly

CEESP meetings

All meetings were held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre in Bangkok

15 November - Steering Committee meeting

The report of this meeting will be available online soon.

Location: Boardroom 4

Agenda

Powerpoint presentation of CEESP Chair and Executive Officer: briefing on IUCN and CEESP (download)

Background documents

CEESP draft inter-sessional programme (English only)

Report of Chair to Members' Business Assembly (download from http://www.iucn.org/congress/members/about.htm in English, French or Spanish)

New CEESP mandate (download from http://www.iucn.org/congress/members/about.htm in English, French or Spanish)

IUCN governance review (download from http://www.iucn.org/congress/members/about.htm in English, French or Spanish)

External Review of IUCN Performance (1999-2003) (download from http://www.iucn.org/congress/members/about.htm in English, French or Spanish)

External review of IUCN commissions (download from http://www.iucn.org/congress/members/about.htm in English, French or Spanish)

WCC motions relevant to CEESP

16 November - CEESP working group meetings

The report of this meeting will be available online soon.

Location: Boardroom 4

Meeting of the members of the Collaborative Management Working Group and the Working Group on Sustainable Livelihoods (morning)

Agenda

Meeting of the members of the Theme on Indigenous and Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas (TILCEPA) (afternoon)

Agenda

17 November - Meeting for all members of CEESP

Brief report of the CEESP members' meeting

Location: Boardroom 4

Agenda

Workshops and events organised by CEESP members

A wide range of workshops, training sessions, cultural events and meetings were organised by CEESP members at the Bangkok Congress. The reports of some of these workshops are available below.

Promoting social justice and equity in conservation within the framework of the CBD
Phil Franks and Maria Fernanda Espinosa

Decision-support systems – Their value in addressing health-poverty-conservation links
Alex de Sherbinin

Health, poverty and conservation: Responding to the challenge of human wellbeing
Gonzalo Oviedo and Stuart MacGinnis

Transboundary conservation - Knowledge networks and good governance
Trevor Sandwith, WCPA and CMWG (panel with Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend)

Dance of the Earth Performance and Reception
Rob Wild, TILCEPA

Healthy people, healthy planet: Is ethics the missing link?
Brendan Mackey

Making the case for Poverty - The role of biodiversity conservation in securing human well being
Bob Fisher

Community governance for conservation: moving forward
Maurizio Farhan Ferrari, FPP, CMWG and TILCEPA

Retrospective review of Caring for the Earth - A Strategy for Sustainable Living
Richard Cellarius, Sierra Club and CEESP

International trade: Friend or foe of biodiversity?
Ricardo Melendez

Responses to the challenge from governments, conservation NGOs, development agencies, international organisations and the private sector
Lea Scherl

Making the case for Poverty-focused conservation
with Bob Fisher

International agreements on protected areas and community based conservation
TILCEPA

Discussion and Book Launch: Can Communities Replace Guns, Guards, and Fences?
TILCEPA

Customary law and community conserved areas: Indigenous Initiative Aroha Mead with Alejandro Argumedo

Human-Wildlife Conflict Initiative: Developing global tools to support local success Knowledge Marketplace
Francine Madden

Mobilizing conservation to end hunger Maryam Rahmanian

The Right to Food, Food Security and Biodiversity Conservation, Kerstin Mechlem, FAO (powerpoint presentation)

Conservation and Poverty Reduction Strategies
Khawar Mumtaz

Emerging diseases and ecosystems
Jason Switzer

Community governance for conservation: moving forward
TILCEPA and Maurizio Farhan Ferrari

Can communities conserve wildlife? Participatory processes in protected (including community conserved) areas
Maurizio Farhan Ferrari

Mapping poverty and conservation linkages - Using Decision-Support-System tools to help implement the MDG
Alex De Sherbinin

Mobility, livelihoods and conservation
TILCEPA, Aghaghia Rahimzadeh

Nature and role of local livelihood benefits in the GEF Biodiversity Program
GEF, with Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend and Taghi Farvar

Global biocultural diversity - Understanding the links between biological, cultural and linguistic diversity
Luisa Maffi and Gonzalo Oviedo

Dams - Implementing the rights and risks approach to stakeholder participation
Jean Yves Pirot

Contribution of the poor in poverty reduction and conservation: good policies from good practices
Tom Bigg and Atiq Rahman

Impact and response to war and conflict on environment and livelihoods
Razan Zuayter

• Related links: http://www.apnature.org
  

International agreements on protected areas and community based conservation (Training workshop)
TILCEPA

Governance of Natural Resources: what role for IUCN members and Commissions? Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend

Business, IUCN, "dialogues" and accountability
IITC, Clive Wicks, Sandra Kloff

Nepal - rethinking conservation strategy in times of conflict, Oli Brown

Poverty and parks - A global assessment of the social impact of protected areas
Kai Schmidt-Soltau & Dan Brockington

• Related links: http://www.social-impact-of-conservation.net/
  

For reports of other workshops held during the World Conservation Forum, please click here.

Motions relevant to CEESP

More than 100 motions were put to vote at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in November in Bangkok (see http://www.iucn.org/congress/members/submitted_motions.htm for the full list and texts). Of these a large number of motions are relevant to CEESP (click here to see the list).

CEESP publications launched at the 3rd World Conservation Congress

SHARING POWER
Learning by doing in Co-Management of Natural Resources throughout the World

This book is designed to support professionals and citizens at large who wish both to better understand collaborative management processes and to develop and enhance them in practice.

Download and ordering information

Policy Matters Issue No. 13, November 2004

Special issue for the World Conservation Congress

History, Culture & Conservation

Visit the new CEESP page on history, culture and conservation

Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Ashish Kothari and Gonzalo Oviedo, with inputs from Marco Bassi, Peter Bille Larsen, Maurizio Farhan Ferrari, Diane Pansky and Neema Pathak. Adrian Phil lips, Series Editor.

Throughout the world, managing protected areas involves people and organizations in widely differing roles.

For many of the above-mentioned managers, the issue that is often of greatest concern is how protected areas relate to local people – most impor tantly indigenous peoples and
local and mobile communities.

Download

Agroecology versus Ecoagriculture:
balancing food production and biodiversity conservation in the midst of social inequity

CEESP Occasional Paper, No. 3, November 2004

By Miguel A. Altieri

COMANEJO - Una reflexión conceptual desde Coope Sol i Dar R. L.

Patricia Madrigal Coldero, Vivienne Solis Rivera

Este documento tiene como objetivo el servir como un vehículo de información sobre la discusión que se ha dado a nivel global, regional y local, en torno a la participación de diferentes sectores sociales en la conservación de las áreas protegidas.

Nuevo! Buena gobernanza y equidad:
Resoluciones en el Congreso Mundial de Conservación (reflexiones para Centro América)

New! Briefing notes on Good Governance and Equity:
Resolutions at the World Conservation Congress (Reflections for Central America)

Press release

CAN COMMUNITIES REPLACE GUNS, GUARDS AND FENCES?