Indigenous Peoples and Community Conserved Territories and Areas in Kenya

On the 14th of June 2013, Natural Justice participated in a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on Indigenous Peoples Community Conserved Territories and Areas(ICCA). The meeting was organized by the ICCA Network in Kenya, with support of by the GEF Small Grants Programme, and attended by a number of civil society representatives in Kenya. Participants in the meeting heard from Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, General Secretary of the ICCA Consortium, Kanyinke Sena, a indigenous peoples rights lawyer and member of the UNPFII and Clement Lenachuru, Commissioner of the Kenyan National Land Commission. The Kenyan ICCA Network also discussed with participants their plans to raise awareness on ICCA’s and highlight various Kenyan ICCA examples over the next year. Natural Justice, as members and southern and eastern African representatives the Consortium have been asked to support to the ICCA Network in this process.

15 June 2013

Country

Kenya

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