Melca:
Innovative Technologies: Intergenerational learning methods and
participatory three dimensional modelling
Human, Environmental and Cultural Rights
Advocacy
MPIDO:
Training
Paralegals
CIKOD:
Endogenous Development
Knowledge & Experience of
BCP Development Process
GTCR:
Training Paralegals
Legal Support
LAC:
Training Paralegals
Legal Support
Lamu:
Knowledge
&Experience of BCP
Development
Life Network:
Process
Endogenous Development
Knowledge &Experience of
BCP Development Process
ALAPA:
Legal Support
Advocacy
ZELA:
Legal Support
Advocacy
Bushbuckridge:
IDRNC & Himba Community:
Knowledge &Experience of
Value Chain Development SAEDP:
BCP Development Process
Endogenous Development
Cosmovision
11.Planning the Course of Action and Conclusion
The final session of the meeting, highlighted the goals of the African BCP Initiative, which were based
on the needs and suggestions of the communities, civil society organisations and lawyers apart of
the BCP Initiative Network.
The African BCP Initiative will seek to explore how BCPs can be utilised by African CBO’s, NGOs,
lawyers and governments as a suitable legal tool to secure community rights and fair/equitable
benefit sharing.
The objectives of the Initiative for the next year are to:
To support further development and implementation of BCPs in seven African countries,
namely South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Benin and Burkina Faso. In these
countries, intensive work will be done on (further) developing BCPs, preparing communities
for stakeholder partnerships towards legal recognition, legal training and sharing of
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