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IKAP Activities

IKAP Network Activities
Capacity building
Affirmation of Cultures & Biodiversity Conservation
Training
Workshops and Conferences

 





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IKAP Network Activities

The network activities take place on three mutually supportive levels:

  1. In-country activities executed by the local networks, such as training and topic events, topic groups and bilateral exchange visits;
  2. Regional activities coordinated by the Secretariat such as dissemination of information, concepts and methods about Indigenous Knowledge and community facilitation, training a regional trainer pool and lobbying for IK and indigenous resource rights at a regional level; and
  3. International activities including the dissemination of local and national experiences.

Some of the projects we have run or are running at present are: Capacity Building and Training; Affirmation of Cultures and Biodiversity Conservation (ACBC) Project; Workshops and Conferences. Please visit the links on the Home page to discover more about these activities.

Further detailed information about the network activities is also available on request.

Capacity Building

By capacity building we refer to improving the capacities of Indigenous mountain communities and their support organisations (development projects) to recover their Indigenous knowledge and to control and use their natural resources through application of this knowledge. Capacity building can occur at a number of levels and IKAP aims to or is currently providing training and education in capacity building in the following ways:






  1. Training of IK-facilitators and supporters at local community level.

  2. Training of project staff of upland development projects, including GTZ, EU and international NGOs in participatory methods of preservation, protection and promotion of Indigenous Knowledge for local development.

  3. Organising a regional facilitator training program for supporters of indigenous knowledge (indigenous facilitators and members of NGOs and projects).

  4. Local follow up training on Indigenous Knowledge for facilitators and indigenous leaders (at country level).

  5. Promoting the voice of Indigenous peoples towards policy makers, development agents and researchers by disseminating information through different media, organising own events, attending local, national and regional events and developing a strategy to use electronic media (website, internet) for dissemination and promotion.
  6. Supporting communities in networking and sharing knowledge and experiences to strengthen their activities.



The Affirmation of Culture and Bio-diversity Conservation (ACBC)

The Affirmation of Culture and Bio-diversity Conservation (ACBC) project includes Indigenous peoples from Burma, three provinces of SW-China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan), Vietnam, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Thailand (upland areas). It involves the establishment of Topic Working Groups which facilitate networks of exchange, joint research and advocacy surrounding the issues of culture and bio-diversity by protecting, preserving and promoting Indigenous Knowledge. The Topic Working Groups currently in operation are Rotational Farming, Eco-agriculture and Indigenous seeds, Herbal Medicine, Arts and Crafts, Indigenous Youth and Indigenous Education.

 


Training activities

Regional IKAP Trainer Pool
The goal of the IKAP-network is to establish the Regional Trainer Pool: to train a group of facilitators and trainers who will support the capacity building of ethnic communities to control and use their own resources in a sustainable way, to recover their own traditional Regional ToTknowledge and to reaffirm their own identity and language as part of a strategy of improving their local livelihoods. The participating trainers will become the creative link between the IKAP-network and the local ethnic communities, small ethnic networks and supporting institutions and projects.

1st sequence of TOT

IKAP organised the first sequence of Training-of-Trainers in 2004 and 2005 for 18 potential trainers from 5 country networks. The 1st training ( HTML file, PDF file)events took place in Chiang Mai in May 2004, 2nd training in Lijiang in September 2004 and 3rd training in Luang Prabang in January 2005.

We started with the understanding and exercise of concepts and methods of recovery of Indigenous Knowledge, then applied the practical tools on understanding IK during 2 days organising a market visit and field trips to 4 different ethnic villages, and developed the individual plans to implement the new skills in the institutional and local networking activities.

Most trainees were involved as facilitators of small workshops during the regional events in Chiang Mai (Globalisation Conference) and in Sapa (MMSEA 4). Most of them also have been able to apply their new or improved skills within their own institutions for farmer research, village planning processes, ethnic network organisation. According to an internal evaluation 1/3 of the participants are able to organise training events, 1/3 can join a team of facilitators and trainers, and 1/3 is only able to assist experienced teams.

The IKAP secretariat has created visualisation baskets with local material as well as locally made pin boards for trainers and facilitators at competitive prices, which are in use in the different country networks for different kinds of group events.

 
 


 








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