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Table 1: Community consultations while developing the Ulu Papar protocol
Date
Activity
Place
Participants6
1st–2nd March
2010
Centralised community
workshop with Natural
Justice and GDF
Buayan
61 people from the Ulu Papar villages of
Buayan, Tiku, Timpayasa, Terian, Pongobonon
and Kalanggaan (including three from GDF
and two from Natural Justice)
10th–11th March
2010
Training course for
community researchers
with Natural Justice,
Sabah Parks and GDF
Crocker Nature
Centre, Crocker
Range Park
Headquarters in
Keningau
34 people comprising community researchers
from the Ulu Papar village of Buayan and the
village of Bundu Tuhan Ranau, Sabah Parks
naturalists, trainers from Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia (UTM), Natural Justice and GDF
29th–30th March
2010
Centralised community
workshop with GDF
Buayan
54 people from the Ulu Papar villages of
Buayan, Tiku, Pongobonon, Kalanggaan and
Timpayasa and GDF
3rd May 2010
Centralised community
workshop
Buayan
32 people from the Ulu Papar villages of
Buayan, Tiku and GDF
24th August – 6th Ulu Papar Roadshow I
September 2010
All Ulu Papar
villages
93 people from the Ulu Papar villages of
Buayan, Tiku, Timpayasa, Terian, Podos,
Longkogungan, Pongobonon and GDF
10th–19th August Ulu Papar Roadshow II
and 18th–19th
September 2011
All Ulu Papar
villages
99 people from the Ulu Papar villages of
Buayan, Tiku, Timpayasa, Terian, Podos,
Longkogungan, Pongobonon and GDF
29th January –
10th February
2012
All Ulu Papar
villages
71 people from the Ulu Papar villages of
Buayan, Tiku, Timpayasa, Terian, Podos,
Longkogungan, Pongobonon and GDF
Ulu Papar Roadshow III
(see Table 1). The first workshop, held in
early March 2010, was a centralised event,
where each village in Ulu Papar selfselected representatives to come to Buayan
to participate in a joint discussion with the
Global Diversity Foundation (GDF) and
Natural Justice about ways to resolve the
problems they face. During this workshop,
participants agreed to collect information
to develop the Ulu Papar biocultural
community protocol, as a preliminary step
in articulating the community’s identity,
way of life and their vision for a collective
future.
A ‘training of trainers’ course, designed
with expertise from Natural Justice (Box
1), was held to strengthen the capacity of
community researchers who played a leading role in designing and facilitating
community consultations, compiling the
information needed and polishing the text
of the protocol. The course incorporated
interactive workshop exercises, such as role
plays, to review and follow-up the developments of the first centralised workshop in
Buayan. These sessions aimed to explore in
detail the legal approaches for supporting
communities and conservation in relation
to human rights and environmental laws
at international, national and local levels.
They also gave trainees the opportunity to
better understand the diverse perspectives
of the different stakeholders implicated in
deciding the future of Ulu Papar.
6 Aside from GDF, Natural Justice, Sabah Parks and UTM trainers, the participants were all
community members: men and women who live in Ulu Papar. Some were leaders, some were
not, although all are Dusun; farmers, fisherfolk, hunters and gatherers of forest products.