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Announcement: Internship at SPFII Posted: 20 Nov 2013 04:24 AM PST Internship position open at SPFII An internship position is now available at the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Applications should be submitted online at the UN Internship Programme webpage, with a copy sent to bernardi@un.org. The specific job opening is JO # 31737 and the deadline for applications is 26 November 2013. Read the release … Visit the UN Internship Programme webpage …
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Resource: Visual guide to REDD+ Posted: 20 Nov 2013 04:23 AM PST Mapping UNFCCC REDD+: a visual guide to the systems and structures supporting REDD+ within the UNFCCC This visual guide includes graphs on: REDD+ design elements necessary to obtain and receive results-based finance; REDD+ national strategy or action plan; national forest monitoring systems; national forest reference emissions levels and/or forest reference levels; measurement, reporting and verification; nationally appropriate mitigation actions; international consultation and analysis; and safeguard information systems. Download the guide [pdf] …
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Resource: Web-based courses on climate change and REDD+ Posted: 20 Nov 2013 04:21 AM PST Introductory Curriculum on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Conserving and Enhancing Forest Carbon Stocks (REDD+) This new course provides an introductory level of understanding on climate change, deforestation, forest degradation, and REDD+. It contains up-to-date information on policy and implementation as well as improved interactivity. It is divided into three courses: in Course 1, Introduction to Climate Change and the Role of Forests, the focus is on background information on climate change, the drivers of deforestation, and strategies for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. Course 2, REDD+ Policy, covers the essential aspects of the technical, political, financial, social, and environmental issues related to REDD+. Finally, in Course 3, REDD+ Implementation, the focus is on the basics of implementing REDD+ activities at various scales. The course is freely available to anyone who is interested. Access the course …
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Upcoming meeting: UNESCO workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage Posted: 20 Nov 2013 04:19 AM PST Training Workshop: Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage This training workshop is aimed at enhancing the national capacities in the field of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, in particular inventorying under the 2003 UNESCO Convention on intangible cultural heritage, including practical technical skills in inventory-making. Experts from Kazakhstan will be trained in identifying, defining, inventorying and documenting intangible cultural heritage. They are in charge of implementing concrete safeguarding activities and conducting training in the management and appropriate transmission of intangible cultural heritage, while undertaking and/or coordinating related scientific, technical, legal, economic and other studies. The purpose of this session is to raise awareness about the value and diversity of the intangible cultural heritage and ensure community participation and consent in all activities concerning their intangible cultural heritage. Participants will be from governmental and non-governmental organizations, communities and institutions, with preference given to local communities. Further information …
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Posted: 20 Nov 2013 04:18 AM PST COBRA Project: Future challenges, local solutions Standing for Community Owned Best practice for sustainable Resource Adaptive management in the Guiana Shield, South America, the COBRA project brings together South American and European civil society organizations with extensive experience in enabling and disseminating grassroots solutions in the Guiana Shield region of Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. It is a multidisciplinary project focused on promoting community-owned solutions for the management of ecosystem services, and for response to emerging challenges related to climate change, biodiversity conservation and forest management, while at the same time maximizing social justice and ecological sustainability. Indigenous groups in South America are participating in the project, using a range of visual methods including participatory video and photography. Visit the project website …
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This week in review … TK-related news from Australia Posted: 20 Nov 2013 04:15 AM PST Australia is the place of vanishing languages NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA: The definition of cultural heritage can vary. It can be physical – such as that contained in culturally-significant buildings, landscapes and artefacts – or intangible, contained in language, music, movies and customs, festivals, and food. But it's not just old things, pretty things, or physical things. Cultural heritage involves strong human emotions. The role language, culture and heritage plays in a person's life and community cannot be underestimated. Culture is the basis of all social identity and development, and cultural heritage is the legacy that each generation receives and passes on. In a sense, it is what makes us human. There are other considerations, such as what happens to a culture that is brought so low that its language is taken from it. Once you take away a nation's language, you take away its soul. Once language is lost, people are forced to think and see the world differently. They lose their mother tongue. In 2008, the NT Government announced that school programs were to be taught only in English for the first four hours of every school day. The policy was replaced with a new policy in 2012, which stated that home and local languages "can and should be used where appropriate to support the learning and acquisition of concepts." The Four Hours In English policy had disastrous consequences. Languages are in threat of dying out. Australia is the place of vanishing languages. The truth is that the West, and in particular the English language, has run over most other languages and cultures like a semitrailer truck. It has been nothing short of devastating. Recognising, respecting and celebrating languages, diversity and cultural heritage is integral to healthy, harmonious relationships. Cultural heritage is not static. Culture and language changes over time and approaches need to be dynamic and adaptive. Effective cultural heritage management can have wide economic, social and environmental benefits. Read the article … Traditional owners pass on valuable knowledge CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA: If you're an indigenous man or woman, where better to learn how to care for your country than being on it with the guidance of your own traditional owners? That opportunity has just been provided to a group of 12 youngsters who headed out onto country, at Mt Molloy, near the headwaters of the Mitchell River. Under the watchful eye of "Uncle" Graham Brady, the participants of the program have been learning about ethnobotany, weeds, erosion and even how to kill an animal humanely. Read the article …
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