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Friday, 20 September 2013
The International Conference on Scaling-Up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights continued today in Interlaken, Switzerland. Throughout the day, participants convened in five parallel sessions to discuss strategies for scaling-up community land and resource rights recognition. The themes discussed in each session were: mapping and documentation; legal recognition and empowerment; expanding and leveraging private sector interest in securing community land rights; making community land rights a global priority; and deepening synergies between community land and resource rights and conservation efforts.
In the afternoon, representatives of the five groups reported back to plenary on the discussions that took place in each of the sessions. They summarized the main priorities and opportunities for scaling-up that emerged from their sessions, and recommended next steps and expected milestones for the coming years.
In the closing plenary, a panel representing a diversity of stakeholders made some summary remarks on impressions from, and achievements of, the conference, stressing the importance of capitalizing on the momentum created by the conference and currently available opportunities for scaling-up recognition of community and indigenous land and resource rights. Duncan Pruett, Oxfam, on behalf of the co-convening organizations, summarized the main messages to emerge from the conference, including that participants were excited about the target to double the amount of secured community lands, but that bad governance was the “elephant in the room.” He noted that the co-convening organizations would meet the following week to discuss the way forward.
Arvind Khare, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), closed the meeting at 4:55 pm.
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Thursday, 19 September 2013
The International Conference on Scaling-Up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights opened today in Interlaken, Switzerland. Participants convened in plenary sessions and breakout groups. In the opening plenary session, representatives of Rights and Resources Initiative, IUCN, International Land Coalition, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Oxfam welcomed participants and stressed the urgency of securing community land rights at this turning point in history. They also called for new alliances that bring together a diverse set of stakeholders. The opening session was followed by a panel discussion to set the stage for the meeting, where panelists were invited to comment on why land rights and this conference were important.
In the morning and afternoon, participants met in five breakout groups to discuss strategies to reach the goal of doubling the amount of land under secure community tenure by 2018. The strategy sessions were on mapping and documentation, legal recognition and empowerment, expanding and leveraging private sector interest in securing community land rights, making community land rights a global priority, and deepening synergies between community land and resource rights and conservation efforts. The strategy sessions reported back to the plenary in the afternoon.
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Meeting resources
 Meeting website
Meeting programme
Community Land Rights Blog
Previous Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Dialogues on Forests, Governance and Climate Change
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Twelfth RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change, 5 November 2012, Washington, DC, United States of America
IISD RS coverage of the Eleventh RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change, 12 October 2011, London, United Kingdom
IISD RS coverage of the Tenth RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change, 7-8 September 2011, The Hague, Netherlands
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International Conference on Scaling-Up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights
