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Representatives of civil society, indigenous communities, government and the press gathered in San Pedro Sula, Honduras from Sept. 23 to Sept. 25 for the “First International Workshop on Social and Environmental Safeguards in Indigenous Territories and Forest Communities of Mesoamerica,” an initiative of the Bank Information Center, and for the Community Forestry Pre-Congress, organized by the Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests (Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques – AMPB).
The Community Forestry Pre-Congress: “Community Forestry as the Basis of Governance and the Starting Point for FLEGT and REDD,” aimed to set in motion a “critical mass” of knowledge from community leaders, project technicians, and civil servants around a regional agenda that strengthens community forestry’s contribution to poverty reduction and climate balance. The two-day conference centered on how to better support the community efforts that sustain and protect forests and involve forest communities, indigenous communities, civil society organizations, and governments. Over 200 peoples from 13 countries participated in the Community Forestry Pre Congress, with hundreds more following live video transmission of the conference online. The First International Workshop on Social and Environmental Safeguards in Indigenous Territories and Forest Communities of Mesoamerica, a meeting and training workshop the day before the Pre-Congress, aimed to open a dialogue on how to provide information and training about the safeguards at both an organization-wide and national level, as well as produce the starting points of a Mesoamerican strategy on safeguards.
For more information and the materials used in both the workshop and the conference, see this post in Spanish.
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