Day 4 Session 3: An overview of governance assessments, legal reviews, and registration systems.

Summary overview of linkages between the mapping of the territories of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs); governance assessments of protected and conserved areas at different scales; as well as the recognition and registration of these area-based conservation mechanisms at national, regional and global levels.

Introduction to partnerships developed through the Global ICCA Support Initiative (GSI), financed by the German BMU IKI, working in partnership with the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), the IUCN Global Programme on Protected Areas (GPAP), Global ICCA Consortium, Natural Justice, and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).