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Steering Committee and Staff
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Steering Committee members
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Dr. Mohammed Taghi Farvar (President). Based in Iran.
A member of a Shahsavan indigenous tribe of nomadic pastoralists in Iranian Azerbaija - Taghi is an interdisciplinary scientist and activist leader for the conservation of nature and the customary rights of indigenous peoples and traditional communities to govern their natural resources and define and gain their sustainable livelihoods. Taghi is fluent in seven languages, has lived and worked with indigenous peoples and traditional communities in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe and is currently Chair of the Board of CENESTA (Centre for Sustainable Development) an Iranian founding member of the ICCA Consortium. Taghi has covered numerous positions in the international and national conservation and sustainable livelihoods arena, including Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (2000-2008). He has published extensively on community and collaborative management of natural resources and conservation with equity.
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Dr. Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend (Global Coordinator). Based in Switzerland.
Grazia has been working on community rights, conservation, sustainable livelihoods and public health for nearly thirty years, focusing in the last decade on governance of protected areas and the appropriate recognition and support to ICCAs. Often collaborating with the IUCN (e.g., as Vice Chair of its Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy and World Commission on Protected Areas and as Head of its Social Policy Programme from 1993 to1998), she is independent consultant, project manager for Cenesta, President of the Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation (www.pkfeyerabend.org) and member of the Administrative Council of French National Parks (www.parcsnationaux.fr) and other bodies dealing with natural resources in various countries. Grazia is fluent is four languages, has worked in over fifty countries; has authored, co-authored or edited about twenty volumes of “collective thinking”; and has organised many more international gatherings that fostered innovative and progressive steps in the policy and practice of conservation.
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Dr. Stan Stevens (Treasurer). Based in the USA.
Stan is a geographer who is senior lecturer in cultural and political ecology and conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has worked on ICCA and protected area issues for nearly thirty years, including five years living in Sherpa communities in the Mt. Everest region of Nepal where he documented Sherpas’ ICCAs and efforts to maintain them amidst international tourism development, socio-cultural change, and state governance of their territory as a national park and World Heritage Site. He continues to advise Sherpa leaders and NGOs on conservation and rights issues. Stan is the author or editor of three books that document and advocate for ICCAs, Indigenous rights, and rights-based protected areas and in 2010 published an article in Policy Matters 17 on implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples through recognition and respect for ICCAs.
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Ashish Kothari. Based in India.
Founder of Indian environmental action group Kalpavriksh (early Consortium Member), Ashish has taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration. He coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process, has served on Greenpeace International’s Board, and is currently chair of Greenpeace India. He served for two terms as co-chair of TILCEPA, the IUCN Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity, Communities, and Livelihoods, and was a Steering Committee member of two IUCN Commissions, CEESP and WCPA. He has been active in various people’s movements and civil society networks relating to destructive development, and natural resource rights. His involvement with ICCAs is three decades old. Ashish is the author or editor (singly or jointly with others) of over 30 books.
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Chrissy Grant. Based in Australia.
Crissy has extensive experience in Indigenous land management and heritage having worked as the Director of the Indigenous Heritage Assessment Section with the Australian Heritage Commission and then the Department of the Environment and Heritage in the Commonwealth Government. Since her retirement in 2006, Crissy has had Ministerial appointments to the Indigenous Advisory Committee (IAC) as Deputy Chair; the Indigenous Protected Areas Sub-Committee as Chair; the Australian National Commission for UNESCO as member; the Australian National Landscapes Reference Committee as member; and the Australian Conservation Foundation as Board member. She also resides as Chair of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Research Ethics Committee that is aligned to the National Health and Medical Research Council.
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Handaine Mohamed. Based in Morocco.
Born in the Sub region Chtouka in southern Morocco, is a historian, writer and university professor and has been a key leader within the Amazigh (Berber) cultural movement since the 1980's. As one of the founders of the World Amazigh Congress in Saint-Rome de Dolan in France (1995); he is also founder of the World Forum of Civil Society in Geneva (2002); founder and president of the Francophone Indigenous Coordination (CAF) based in Québec (2006); a member of the Executive Committee of IPACC (Coordinating Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Africa) (Consortium Member) based in Cape Town (2007) and a founder of the organization Tamaynut (1978) – the largest Amazigh organization in North Africa – where he served as the head of external relations, as well as chairman of the Confederation of Amazigh associations in southern Morocco (Tamunt n Iffus) in 2000. He has published several books on the history and culture of the Amazigh, is married with four children and lives in Morocco.
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Jorge Nahuel. Based in Argentina.
Jorge Nahuel is Werken (speaker) for the Confederación Mapuche de Neuquen – a Consortium Member of which he was a founding member, and is now responsible for the Commission on Protected Areas and Indigenous Rights. He is a member of the Advisory Body for on Indigenous Peoples’ policy of Argentina’s National Parks and Treasurer of Human Rights Watch for Indigenous Peoples in Neuquen. Jorge has a long experience on issues of territorial rights of indigenous peoples and protected areas and indigenous peoples’ conservation issues in the Cono Sur region, working with indigenous peoples’ organisations, the government of Argentina, protected area agencies, universities, NGOs and foreign donors. On 2000-2002 he was a member of the Co-management Committee of Lanin National Park and in 1996 he was Coordinator of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB). In 2007 he was very active for the organisation and running of events during the Latin America Parks Congress in Bariloche, and in 2008 he coordinated the Indigenous Forum on Protected Areas at the IV World Conservation Congress in Barcelona (Spain). Jorge has worked on development issues for the Mapuche communities and questions of natural resource policy, including the cultural impact of mining, oil and forest industries. He strongly supports self-governance of indigenous territories as a model for “conserved areas” to be recognised on the same level as state governed protected areas.
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Juan Carlos Riascos de la Peña. Based in Colombia.
President of Ecozoica, a Colombian NGO dedicated to environmental conservation and indigenous peoples rights and an early Member of the ICCA Consortium, Juan has long been working with indigenous peoples in the Northwest Amazon Region (Suriname, Brazil, Colombia). His professional interests focus on intercultural dialogue, and the validity of social action derived from traditional knowledge systems and the comprehensive Life Plans of indigenous peoples. In the last decade, Juan was Director of the Instituto de Etnobiología of Colombia (2005 – 2007), Vice-president of the Amazon Conservation Team (2004 – 2005) and Director of Colombia National Parks (1998-2003), a position in which he ushered profound innovations for the full recognition of the capacities and rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. Prior to that, Juan worked in academia (Coordinator of the Master in Sustainable Development of the Universidad Javeriana, 1993 – 1995) and in agricultural trade projects. He is married, has two children and lives and works in Colombia.
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Kail Zingapan, Based in the Philippines.
An indigenous person from the Philippines, Kail has been a exceptionally gifted student and is now associate with PAFID—a social development organization that has been assisting Philippine indigenous communities to secure or recover traditional lands and waters since 1967 and is one of the founding Members of the Consortium. Kail is active in community-based mapping as a means to empower indigenous communities to engage or negotiate with Government and others. But she has also invaluable technical skills to develop and treat maps that are used at national and international levels to demonstrate the value of indigenous lands for biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihoods and disaster prevention versus short-term use for extractive purposes (mining, monocultures, etc.)
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Lili (Sarah) Fortune. Based in France and Niger.
Lili is an Indigenous Tuareg engaged with indigenous rights advocacy with the Tuareg Diaspora in Europe (ODTE), the ONG Internationale Touarègue (IT) and the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP). She has a home and family in France but spends much of her time in the field in Niger. Lili has two Masters:in Criminal Law and Health Law from the University of Bordeaux (France) and has been involved in international advocacy on behalf of mobile indigenous peoples for a number of years, including in various sessions of UNPFII and EMRIP. For some time Lili also acted as representative for the indigenous peoples of Africa in United Nations meetings in Geneva. Lili is currently writing a book on the rights of mobile indigenous peoples.
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International Policy Assistant
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Holly Shrumm. Based in Sabah, Malaysia.
Holly works full-time for Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment (a Consortium member) in support of Indigenous peoples' and local communities' territories and livelihoods. She has an academic background in cultural anthropology and zoology and practical experience in community-based natural resource management and international environmental law and policy. She is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy, the Commission on Environmental Law, and the World Commission on Protected Areas. She has co-authored and edited a number of articles, reports, and volumes on related issues, most recently, a toolkit for community facilitators on biocultural community protocols.
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Communications Officer
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Isis Alvarez. Based in Colombia.
Isis is a Colombian biologist with a MSc. in Environment & Resource Management and experience in work with different local and international environmental NGOs in Latin America, Europe and Africa. Among others, she has been involved in projects such as the rehabilitation of confiscated capuchin monkeys in La Macarena, Colombia, and leopard-human conflicts in the Waterberg Reserve, South Africa. In 2005 she moved to the Netherlands to pursue her Master's degree and later worked at the international secretariat of Friends of the Earth in Amsterdam. In 2009, Iris participated in the IUCN Netherlands' Nature and Poverty program developing the 'Local Ownership of Conservation Agendas' pages, which gather documents and case studies describing community based conservation and sustainable use initiatives. Her will to get to know local experiences took her in 2009 to volunteer in Chiapas, Mexico, where she got involved with Tsotsil communities assisting in a project for the auto-assessments of community needs. In 2010, she participated in the activities of the school of agro-ecology in Santander, Colombia, supporting Fundaexpresión, a local NGO that raises awareness of false solutions to climate change, and provides support to the management plans of newly established peasant nature reserves. In 2011 Isis joined the Global Forest Coalition as a volunteer and, later, as Communications and Media Outreach Officer. With GFC and beyond, Isis is actively engaged in campaigns and advocacy work, mainly addressing gender aspects in forest management. Isis joined the ICCA Consortium as Communications Officer in May 2013.
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Aurelie Neumann. Based in India.
Aurélie studied psychology, cinema, and environmental sciences and management at the Free University of Brussels. Her master thesis focussed on the integration of endogenous ecological knowledge into protected areas management in Peru (Santuario Nacional Tabaconas Namballe, Cajamarca) where she first focused her interests on biocultural diversity and community conserved areas. She then worked for two years with urban communities in Brussels on a project called ‘Sustainable Neighbourhoods’, which aimed at empowering people to implement environmental-sound actions in the area they live in. This experience gave her insights into group dynamics and participatory processes and inspired her to start asking questions regarding democracy and citizens initiatives. Aurelie also worked as a volunteer with Greenpeace Belgium, and considers herself to be a ‘pacifist militant’.
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Regional Coordinators
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Africa
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Salatou Sambou, Coordinator for the marine and coastal ecosystems of West Africa. Based in in Casamance (Senegal).
Salatou is a fisherman from Casamance, Founding President and now Technical Advisor of the of the Fishermen Association of the Rural Municipality of Mangagoulack (APCRM) one of the very early Members of the Consortium. The Association and its larger community are at the origin of the formal establishment of the ICCA named Kawawana—a coastal and marine area of 9,665 hectares fully governed, managed and conserved by local initiative. Kawawana is the first ICCA officially recognized in Senegal by regional authorities on the basis of the decentralization law, a feat that would have been impossible without Salatou’s vision, enthusiasm, determination and diplomatic abilities. The experience and capacities of Salatou are well recognized in the region and he has been organizing and attending a number of field exchanges and training initiatives in West Africa. He is currently engaged to assist the expansion of ICCAs in Casamance and the region at large “while maintaining their quality and integrity”, in particular through the promotion of appropriated forms of recognition and support. Salatou is the ICCA Consortium’s Coordinator for the coastal and marine environments of West Africa.
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Safouratou Moussa Kané, Coordinator for Sahelian region. Based in Niger.
Safouratou (Niger) is a Fulani and a Hausa tribeswoman. She is Vice President of a Consortium Member the Réseau Billital Maroobe (RBM), a network for the promotion of pastoralists that involves associations of pastoralists from seven countries in West Africa (Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mauritania, Benin and Nigeria). She is also a Councillor of WAMIP (the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples) and a member of the Food Security Mechanism of FAO. Safouratou holds a master's degree in communications and a master in project management, works part-time as teacher and volunteers with RBM and other rights-based organisations for the recognition of the rights of pastoralists and the security of pastoral economies in the Sahel. In fulfilling her role as ICCA Consortium coordinator for the Sahel region, Safouratou is benefitting from her abundance of regional contacts developed through RBM.
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Joseph Itongwa Mukumo. Coordinator for forest ecosystems in Central Africa. Based in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Joseph is an indigenous Walikale from the North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He graduated in Rural Development and is currently the coordinator of of a Consortium Member the Network of indigenous peoples and local communities for the sustainable management of forest ecosystems (REPALEF) in the Democratic republic of Congo. Since March 2012, he is also a member of the technical committee of the similar network that covers the whole of Central Africa (REPALEAC). In addition to creating his own organization, Shirika La BAMBUTI, whose work he coordinates in the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Maniema, Joseph has been director or coordinator of several local or provincial organisations defending human and indigenous peoples’ rights. As such, he assured a number of times their representation in international meetings of the UN, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Bank.
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Christian Chatelain , Co-coordinator for West and Central Africa. Based in France.
Christian is a “chercheur d’APACs”—a student and explorer of ICCAs and an advocate for their appropriate recognition and support. An agronomist and a protected area advisor, he has over 25 years of experience in African and Europe as an independent consultant in co-management of natural resources in forest, dry land and coastal environments. Christian has been engaged in numerous field-based research and conservation initiatives on shared governance of natural resources, community management and participatory management end evaluation. His advocacy work for ICCAs went on for several years as part of his volunteer contributions as member of the Commission on Environmental Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) of IUCN. Since 2009 he has been supporting the endogenous process of establishing the first ICCA in Senegal. Christian is a father of three adolescents, a mountain lover and climber, a member of the “Collectif ProMontBlanc” engaged in the cross-border protection of the Mont Blanc and acts as Co-coordinator for French-speaking Africa together with Salatou, Safouratou and Joseph, and assists Sergio in his work in Southern Europe.
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Lesle Jansen, Coordinator for South and East Africa. Based in South Africa.
Lesle is a South African attorney with a background in human rights. She worked for the South African Human rights commission prior to departing for the USA where she completed an LLM in ‘Indigenous Peoples in International Law’. Upon graduation she took up a project lawyer position with a public interest law firm called the Legal Assistance Centre in Namibia where she worked with San (Indigenous communities) land and human rights related cases for two years. She then went to Rome to contribute to her studies for an LLM in ‘Rule of law for Development’ and is in the process of completing her thesis. She is currently working with Natural Justice (Consortium Member) in the Southern Africa region on indigenous and traditional communities bio-cultural rights, with a particular focus on bio cultural community protocols.
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Europe
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Sergio Couto González, Coordinator for South and West Europe, based in Andalusia, Spain.
Sergio is a Spanish biologist devoted to multidisciplinary, participatory and innovative approaches to the study, management and conservation of vertebrates and their habitats. Among his professional assignments, he worked as a technician and researcher for the European Commission, the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC) and the Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife), as well as a consultant on wildlife management, conducting wildlife inventories for both the governmental and the private sector in Spain. One of his key interests are tools to enhance the participation and commitment of rural communities on biodiversity conservation initiatives. Through his experience on this, he developed a keen interest on the role of ICCAs in both the past and the future. He sees ICCAs not only as embodying environmental, cultural and democracy values, but also as having potential to contribute to solving many of the challenges of our time. Recently Sergio led a national study on ICCA recognition and support in Spain. He is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy.
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Iris Benes, Coordinator for Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. Based in Croatia.
A professional background in law and interests in human rights and nature conservation have led Iris towards her current engagement in civil society projects and initiatives, where she is keen to find practical solutions for problems, exchange knowledge and advocate for grassroot initiatives. Iris is active in biodiversity and landscape conservation (especially floodplains), traditional architecture, endogenous breeds and species, natural and cultural heritage, volunteerism, conservation law and policies and conservation advocacy. Having volunteered on these issues since 1989 and having engaged professionally with those in the last decade, Iris came to ICCAs because of her passion to maintain the land of her grandparents (extensive communal pasture rich in biodiversity) preserved in all its beauty by the local community. A member of national councils and working groups in sustainable agriculture/nature protection, Iris also works as an office manager for for BED, a grassroots NGO in Croatia (Consortium Member).
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The Americas and the Caribbean
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Felipe Gomez. Coordinator for MesoAmerica. Based in Guatemala.
Felipe is a Maya K'iche', a renowned spiritual leader and the coordinator of Oxlajuj Ajpop (National Council for Mayan Spiritual Leaders)— an organisation with whom Felipe has been involved since 1991 and that is now a Member of the ICCA Consortium. Felipe advises a number of Guatemalan key individuals and bodies, including the Guatemalan Commission that deals with Sacred Sites— established after the end of the civil war that devastated Guatemala from 1960 to 1996, and the Sacred Natural Sites Initiative, which is an ICCA Consortium member (pending approval) working with custodians to protect, conserve and revitalise sacred natural sites around the world. Among Felipe's national and regional duties are the coordination of the initiative to develop a new Law on Sacred Sites in Guatemala and the coordination of the COMPAS network for Central America. The COMPAS network supports conservation approaches to bio-cultural diversity and endogenous development based on indigenous worldviews. Felipe is the editor and author of various articles and booklets, including the Agenda Socio-ambiental (Desde el piensameinto de los Indigenas Maya, Garifuna y Xinkas de Guatemala por los derechos de la Matre Tierra) and a document of directives for the governance, management and use of water in Guatemala. Recently Felipe was awarded the international PKF Award for 2012, entitled "A world of solidarity is possible". For the ICCA Consortium, Felipe is in charge of promoting the appropriate recognition and support of the ICCAs of indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica.
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Marvin Fonseca, Co-coordinator for Mesoamerica with special responsibility for local communities. Based in Costa Rica.
Marvin is an associate with CoopeSoliDar, an NGO working in support of conservation by and for local communities in Costa Rica. He is a professional in the area of geography, graduated with a Honors Master degree from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) – a recognition confirmed by its Graduate Studies System. Through fifteen years of work, Marvin developed a rich experience in conservation projects – in particular for the sustainable use of natural resources, promoting new governance types of protected areas, supporting citizens' participation in natural resource management and transforming socio-environmental conflicts. He has been involved in interdisciplinary and interagency definition of national policies; in process and methodologies for local participation in the use and conservation of natural resources; in the governance of protected areas in terrestrial and marine environments; and in initiatives dealing with human rights and conservation. Marvin has work experience with governmental agencies in Costa Rica, teaches at the University of Costa Rica and is a Member of the Board of Directors of CoopeSoliDar.
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Carmen Miranda, Coordinator for the Amazon region. Based in Bolivia.
Carmen is Biologist, with a specialization in limnology and Protected Areas Management and has a masters in Sustainable Development. Her work experience, for more than 20 years, has focused mainly on Protected Areas in Bolivia and other countries. For her achievements and experience she was granted the “Fred M. Packard International Parks Merit Award” as a recognition of her contribution to Protected Areas conservation and development for society. She has extensive experience in institutional development, decentralization, environmental governance, planning and environmental policy and biodiversity conservation at national and local Amazonian countries mainly in Bolivia. She has developed several projects to strengthen local government bodies in turn promoting inter-agency cooperation at various levels and has worked to promote community management and sustainable use of natural resources for local economic development with indigenous people of eastern Bolivia. She has produced several technical papers and methodologies for environmental management and protected areas. She is a founding member and President of SAVIA (Consortium Member), The Association for the Conservation of the Biodiversity and Sustainable Development. She also made an important contribution to publications about different subjects oriented towards the conservation of biodiversity, protected areas and critical and/or priority ecosystems management. She’s the author, co-author and editor of over 20 books edited in the last 10 years.
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Lorena Arce, Coordinator for the Cono Sur. Based in Chile.
Lorena has been working with different organizations in interdisciplinary teams for rural development. She is and advocator for local and small scale solutions to global problems, and believes that in ICCAs we can find great proved examples that should be recognized and supported. She has an academic background on economics and management, a master degree in social policies and recently finished her second master in planning and regional development. She has worked for NGOs, as a consultant in international organizations like FAO, supporting local governments and community-based organizations. Today she is working as independent consultant and for the ICCA Consortium as Regional Coordinator for the South Cone of Latin America. If you want to share information or support ICCAs in Latin America she encourages you to contact her.
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Asia and Oceania
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Mina Esteghamat, Coordinator for West and Central Asia. Based in Iran.
Mina Esteghamat gained her Ph.D in Environmental Science from Pune University (India) in 2010 with a thesis on traditional agro-forestry systems as a feature of sustainable development in Iran. Since then, she has been associated with CENESTA (Consortium Member), in Iran, and kept providing support to indigenous nomadic and local communities in ICCAs and natural resource management, and in restoration their territorial rights. Mina has experience in participatory mapping and Aerial Photos analyses, forestry surveys, computer training and Persian - English translations.
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Neema Pathak-Broome, Coordinator for South Asia and China. Based in India.
Neema has a Masters degree in Environmental Science and a post graduation diploma in Wildlife management. She is a member of Kalpavriksh (Consortium Member) and has been working on issues related to governance, management and conservation of biological diversity in India for the past decade with a particular focus on documenting and popularizing ICCAs. She has helped the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in drafting a set of guidelines for identification and support to Community Conserved Areas in India. She is one of the coordinators of the Conservation and Livelihoods Group within Kalpavriksh and is actively involved in policy analysis and lobbying for appropriate changes in the Wildlife Protection Act 1972, Indian Forest Act 1927, The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 and other relevant Acts, policies and government orders pertaining to ecosystem conservation and local livelihoods. She has authored and co-authored a number of books, as well as conducting research and writing articles and papers on Protected Areas, Community Based Conservation, and the relationship between decentralization and conservation. She has organized a number of workshops and consultations at South Asia level, national level, and local level for a variety of actors on issues of local governance, self-rule, and community conserved areas and issues related to them. Neema is a member of IUCN Strategic Direction on Governance, Communities, Equity and Livelihoods in Relation to Protected Areas (TILCEPA). She is also part of the team coordinating and writing a training manual and resource kit on “Governance of Protected Areas” being supported by TILCEPA, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and GIZ.
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Sam Pedragosa, Coordinator for South-East Asia. Based in the Philippines.
Sam has been affiliated with PAFID (Consortium Member) since 1992 as researcher and project manager, and is currently still with them as Senior Research Associate. His experience spans community based resource management projects, social and policy research, environmental impact assessment, public and environmental education, mapping and GIS methods and rural development and land-use planning. While Sam has mostly worked in close association with indigenous peoples, small farmers, fisher folks and the urban poor, he has also dealt with government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private institutions, including banks and universities. Sam’s education includes an MA in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of the Philippines at Diliman, and a BA in Forestry Sciences. He describes himself as a honest ordinary guy, whose first priority is family but who takes his job seriously even while he likes to live a stress-free life. While motivated to fight against the injustices that flock around the poor, Sam is mostly a pragmatic and tolerant person... caring more about being grammatically than politically correct!
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Sutej Hugu, Coordinator for East Asia Region. Based in Pongso no Tao, Taiwan.
In 2000 Hugu co-found and was elected as first Chairperson of the Cultural Taiwan Consortium: a local NGO that set out to work towards an integrated Indigenous Tao national identity. Since 2010 he assumed the position of CEO for the Tao Foundation, which became an ICCA Consortium Member in 2012.Hugu is currently championing a campaign to remove a nuclear waste repository that was "temporarily" established in Lanyu Island around thirty years ago. The island – better referred to as Pongso no Tao -- is the ancestral domain of the Tao indigenous people which is claiming tribal sovereignty over it. Among Hugu's other initiatives is the 'Social Co-operative Business Movement', which focuses on recruiting radical cooperative entrepreneurs and innovative managers to develop initiatives of sustainable livelihoods that conserve the bio-cultural diversity of Pongso no Tao.
Hugu's background and expertise lies in Information and Computer Technology industries, where he worked as manager, but his experience is rather eclectic, spanning the development of various specialized companies—from producing organic cotton and eco-textiles to shooting aerial films for cinema and documentary productions. Hugu also spent a few years living in secluded voluntary simplicity.
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For general enquiries, please contact Vanessa Reid at: vanessa@iccaconsortium.org and
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