Dana Declaration +10 Workshop Report 11-13 April 2012, Wadi Dana, Jordan

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Contents Overview 1. Day One | Wednesday, 11 April 2012 Opening Session: Welcome and Opening Remarks Session 1: Brief Overview of Principles of the Dana Declaration by Dawn Chatty Session 2: Presentations by Knowledge Holders Session 3: Presentation by Gonzalo Oviedo, Senior Advisor--Social Policy, IUCN Session 4: A Round-table Discussion of the Common Themes that Emerged throughout the Day to Facilitate Discussion on Day 2 2. Day Two | Thursday, 12 April 2012 Session 1: Briefing on Rio +20 Session 2: Breakout Groups to Discuss the Different Problems that Were Raised, with the Aim of Creating a Joint Statement Session 3: Short Examples of Action Plans 3. Day Three | Friday, April 13th, 2012 Session 1: Presentation and Revision of the Dana +10 Statement Session 2: Capacity-building Workshop Session 3: Building Strategies of Appropriate Legal Mechanisms Session 4: Concluding Workshop Session 4. Appendices A: Dana +10 Workshop Programme B: List of Participants C: Press Release, 13 April 2012 D: Dana Declaration +10 Workshop Participants' Statement for the Rio +20 Conference Communique des participants/t l'atelier pour la declaration de Dana +10 destine a la Confrrence de Rio +20 Manifiesto de los Participantes en las Jornadas de la Declaracion de Dana + 10 para la Conferencia de Rio +20 E: Dana Declaration +10 Workshop Participants' Statement on the Situation of Pastoralist Communities of the West Bank for the Rio +20 Conference Overview Mobile indigenous peoples (e.g., pastoralists, hunter-gatherers and swidden agriculturalists) have sustainably managed the land they live on for centuries. However, in the name of biodiversity conservation, some have been displaced, dispossessed and expelled from their traditional territories and left destitute and culturally impoverished. While these practices have been largely discarded in rhetoric by biodiversity conservation agencies, progress in human rights observance and land restitution has lagged behind new thinking on the relationship between people and protected areas. Thus, local and national policy and institutional change in the field have not kept pace with advances in thinking at the international level; nor do they always live up to public declarations of concern for human rights. The Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development (QEH), University of Oxford, has worked with other bodies to address the concerns regarding the welfare of mobile indigenous peoples in biodiversity conservation. A key product was the Dana Declaration on Conservation and Mobile Peoples (http://www.danadeclaration.org) in 2002, with guidelines for a complementary strategy for both protected areas and meeting human needs (see appendix D). Ten years after the Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation was formulated in Wadi Dana, Jordan, it is time to follow up on the achievements of the past decade and consider the future. Working with the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN, Jordan), representatives of the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP), other representatives of mobile peoples, concerned policy makers and academics, the Dana Declaration +10 workshop set out, among other goals, to develop a statement to be delivered at the Rio +20 meetings in June 2012 'to continue to promote the human rights of mobile indigenous peoples in the context of biodiversity conservation and democratic environmental governance in the face of continuing expansion of protected areas, land-grabbing, and further dispossession'. The workshop ultimately aimed to continue to raise and maintain awareness of the special vulnerabilities and needs of mobile indigenous peoples. Over three days in April 2012, the forty participants of the workshop made presentations about the continuing or emerging issues in their homelands. …