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Responding to mounting interest and concerns about ICCAs on the occasion of the 4th World Conservation Congress, several mutually-respected NGOs and organisations representing indigenous and community constituencies created the ICCA Consortium in Barcelona (Spain) in October 2008. The Consortium members-- whose main common characteristic is years of experience working on ICCA-related policy and practice-- agreed in Barcelona on a broad programme of action. Ultimately, they sought appropriate recognition of ICCAs at national and international levels, and appropriate support provided to the indigenous peoples and local communites governing them. The programme was to provide seeding support and stimulus for cooperation on ICCAs among a large variety of actors— focusing on indigenous peoples and local community organizations, but including governmental agencies, NGOs concerned with integrated conservation, development and human rights goals, and international agencies such as UNDP, UNEP/WCMC and IFAD.
Partial funding and volunteer engeaments are currently supporting the programme in various regions and globally. Main overall programme proposals are still, however, under consideration.
Physical meetings among the organizations that are members of the Consortium take place as often as possible in the occasion of international gathering and policy events such as meetings of the CBD Parties and UN gatherings (e.g., UNPFII and EMRIP). The majority of the ICCA Consortium referents are also members of IUCN CEESP (in particular the TILCEPA, TGER and TSL groups) and keep in touch with one another also through their listserves.
Below is the full list of current members (June 2010) and main partners.
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