About IKAP
IKAP Topic Groups
IKAP Activities
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Network Activities |
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building |
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of Cultures & Biodiversity Conservation |
| Training |
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IKAP
Network Activities
The network activities take place on three mutually
supportive levels:
- In-country
activities executed by the local networks, such
as training and topic events, topic groups and
bilateral exchange visits;
- 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
- 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.
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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:
- Training of IK-facilitators and supporters
at local community level.
- 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.
- Organising a regional facilitator training
program for supporters of indigenous knowledge
(indigenous facilitators and members of NGOs and
projects).
- Local follow up training on Indigenous Knowledge
for facilitators and indigenous leaders (at country
level).
- 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.
- Supporting communities in networking and sharing
knowledge and experiences to strengthen their
activities.
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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.
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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  knowledge 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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