world heritage convention , phnom penh, cambodia
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TERRE Policy Centre is invited by UNDP/IUCN in World Heritage Convention forum Phnom Penh, Cambodia to present a small but inspiring progress made by the local community around Kaas Palateau, in Norther Western Ghat of India. The progress in less that one year since its inscription by UNESCO as World Natural Heritage demonstrates that charting of the road map towards sustainable development of the local community and conservation of the heritage can go hand in hand. See the event announcement.TRANSCRIPT
INVITATION TO BOOK LAUNCH
37th Session of the World Heritage Committee, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Room 1 & 2, 7.15pm, Sunday 23 June 2013
(refreshments will be provided)
COMPACT: Engaging Local Communities in Stewardship of World Heritage
Opening remarks, Kishore Rao (Director UNESCO World Heritage Centre) Overview Terence Hay-Edie (UNDP/GEF Small Grants Programme) WH Committee Government representatives: Mexico and/or Senegal members (invited) Partner remarks Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre IUCN Advisory Body Tim Badman (Director, IUCN World Heritage Programme) Comments
COMPACT: Engaging Local Communities in Stewardship of World Heritage Since the year 2000, the Community Management of Protected Areas Conservation (COMPACT) programme has been testing an innovative model for engaging communities in conservation. An initiative of the UNDP-implemented GEF Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) and the United Nations Foundation (UNF), the programme has been working with communities near eight current/proposed UNESCO World Heritage sites in Africa, Asia, Meso-America and the Caribbean. Through extensive on-the-ground experience, and a participatory methodology that integrates a scientific and cultural approach, COMPACT has been demonstrating that community-based initiatives can significantly increase the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation in globally significant protected areas. The publication introduces the COMPACT model and reviews its 12 years of experience. Chapters from each target country illustrate how COMPACT is working in diverse settings, highlighting the underlying principles behind its community-driven approach and its key planning frameworks. It explores lessons learned from COMPACT regarding effective co-management and governance of protected areas, techniques of community engagement, linking conservation to local livelihoods, trans-boundary cooperation, as well as other issues key to sustaining the landscapes/seascapes recognized under the World Heritage Convention and protected areas generally.
“As a flagship programme of the GEF, the SGP has been pioneering new and innovative approaches for transformational change in the governance of the world’s protected areas. The review of the COMPACT programme highlights a tremendous opportunity to scale up this approach for the protection of the global network of World Heritage sites, Biosphere Reserves, and other globally significant Satoyama landscapes and seascapes in the struggle to safeguard the global commons.”
— Naoko Ishii CEO, Global Environment Facility
To download a copy of the publication please visit: www.sgp.undp.org
THE GEF SMALL GRANTS PROGRAMME
Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as a flagship programme, the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on behalf of the GEF, and is executed by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). Launched in 1992, the SGP supports activities of non-governmental and community-based organizations in developing countries towards biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, protection of international waters, reduction of the impact of chemicals and prevention of land degradation, while generating sustainable livelihoods. 220 E 42nd Street New York, NY 10017, USA Email: [email protected] Website: www.sgp.undp.org