Indigenous and

traditional knowledge

for adaptationAddressing gender and other guiding principles of NAPs

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

AFPAT Coordinator

July 2016

How indigenous traditional knowledge

(ITK) can contribute to adaptation

Indigenous people are deeply

connected to their environment.

Traditional knowledge are used

to anticipate the changes in

weather patters

Traditional knowledge can

provide a very accurate mapping

of natural resources

All these knowledges :

Are threaten by climate change

But can also be shared to helps

local communities to adapt

The Case of the Mbororo People

Nomadic and semi-nomadic herders

living in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger and Nigeria

250.000 in Chad (1993 estimation of national statistic)

This community developed a large array of indigenous traditional practices based on their interactions in their living environment and their empirical experiments in their attempts to improve the quality of their lives.

building on traditional knowledge systems to cope with seasonal weather patterns and sustainably manage meagre resources

Challenges for M’bororo people facing

climate change

Seasonal migration challengesWhere the Mbororo Peoples and

Official Science Meet

Climate science uses modern monitoring and forecasting systems to generate and provide a wide range of information on past, present and future

Local decision making: information & other factors e.g. social networks, local loyalties, cultural values, intuition, beliefs and age-old trust in traditional predictive systems.

Ordinary people experience great difficulties in making their voice heard by scientists.

Communications challenges are found along a continuum

Long

• Mobility over more than 1000 Km (up to DRC)

Medium • Mobility up to 700 km (Nord to

South Chad)

Short

• Mobility up to 100 km (in one Region)

3-D participatory mapping – an example of

indigenous peoples knowledge mobilization

Using ICT methodology

Workshop with men and women from the community

Participants associated to the map creation

Workshop to implement the outcome of the project with the communities

Mapping of all natural resources in one area:

Water

Pasture

Soils

Plants and crops

A positive impacts for adaptation

Conflict resolution:

climate change will increase the tensions for natural resources. 3D Mapping and ITK helps to share the resources and to use it more efficiently

Agriculture adaptation :

ITK can helps farmers to identify crops resistant to droughts or floods

ITK can help to identify by anticipating changes in weather patters.

Health :

ITK can helps to identify and protect plants and trees used by traditional medicine

Traditional medicine provide access to health services to

the poorest, and basis for scientific research

The Paris Agreement encourages the use of

indigenous peoples traditional knowledge

Paris Agreement Article 7 :

10 key principles for ITK inclusions in

NAPs

1. Community control, a rights-based approach & an ethical framework will build trust and cooperation

2. An intersectoral approach will create greater coherence

3. Facilitate interaction of science and ITK

4. Conserve wild resources and ecosystems

5. Conflict-sensitive adaptation and ITK need to be linked

6. Security of tenure and legal considerations of customary land management will influence long-term sustainability

7. Customary natural resource governance is part of ITK approaches to adaptation

8. Technology can be a useful bridge between oral ITK and the need for data and physical planning tools

9. Gender-sensitive approach

10. Involve the schools to facilitate linkages between ITK, skills development and formal schooling

How to mobilize Indigenous Peoples

Knowledges in National Adaptation Plans

Key Principles Examples of implementation

Participation /

Inclusiveness

Organized workshop with IP representatives and communities for NAPs

definition & implementation

Gender Create specific dialogue to mobilize women’ knowledge

Funding Allow direct access to civil society organization and indigenous

communities to climate finance, in particular for small-scale projects

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