This article relates to SDG 5 Gender Equality.
“In efforts to empower women activists championing for the rights of Indigenous Peoples’ (IPs) in Africa, Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP) partnered with Land is Life to sponsor their attendance in an Africa regional workshop held in Arusha, Tanzania.
OPDP managed to successfully host five women IPs’ rights campaigners from Kenya and DRC Congo in the three day (October 2-4) workshop themed ‘Access Benefit Sharing (ABS)’, courtesy of the Land is Life’s Indigenous Led Grant.
The workshop was a convergence of IPs rights advocates, State Agencies and experts from 10 African countries well versed in matters of land and natural resources sharing as well as IPs issues.
It gave the women the opportunity to learn more about the existing international, regional and national regulations guiding on the access, ownership and utilization of the natural resources available within the IPs land territories. Also the local based mechanisms to explore in pursuing recognition and respect of IPs rights especially to land and natural resources.”
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