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In addition, the toolkit builds on ongoing interactions with non-governmental organizations, networks,
and initiatives that have explored biocultural community protocols and related issues, including (among
others):
African Biodiversity Network
COMPAS Network for Endogenous Development
ICCA Consortium
League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development (LPP)
Local Livestock for Empowerment (the LIFE Network)
Sacred Natural Sites Initiative
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (Peru)
Several institutions and international and intergovernmental organizations have also contributed to the
development of the theories and methods behind biocultural community protocols, including (among
others):
ABS Capacity Development Initiative
Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine and Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health
Traditions (India)
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Union for Ethical BioTrade
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For their financial support of various aspects of our work on biocultural community protocols and legal
empowerment, Natural Justice extends sincere appreciation to the following organizations and
institutions (in alphabetical order):
Access and Benefit Sharing Capacity Development Initiative
The Christensen Fund
CDT Foundation
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Heinrich Böll Foundation for Southern Africa
International Development Law Organization
International Development Research Centre through the Open AIR Initiative
International Union for Conservation of Nature Environmental Law Centre
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
Personnel Cooperation in Developing Countries (PSO, The Netherlands)
Shuttleworth Foundation
Swedish International Biodiversity Programme
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS)
In addition to the many communities, organizations, and networks noted in Part I: Section B above, a
number of people have contributed directly to the development of this toolkit. Natural Justice thanks the
following individuals for their invaluable guidance, input, and feedback: Julian Sturgeon (Resource Africa),
Wim Hiemstra (COMPAS Network), Ilse Köhler-Rollefson (League for Pastoral Peoples), K. A. Kahandawa
(Future in Our Hands, Sri Lanka), Bern Guri (Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organization
Development, Ghana), Sabyasachi Das and Ramesh Bhatti (Sahjeevan, India), Abdul Raziq Kakar (SAVES,
Pakistan), Million Belay and Befekadu Refera (MELCA, Ethiopia), Hadija Ernst (Save Lamu, Kenya), Bas
Verschuuren and Robert Wild (Sacred Natural Sites Initiative), Taghi Farvar (CENESTA), Govindaswamy
Hariramamurthi (Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, India), Suneetha Subramanian (UNUIAS), Peter Croal (Canadian International Development Agency and Southern African Institute for