Indigenous Peoples play a critical role in climate action, bringing generations of knowledge, values, wisdom and sustainable practices that protect nature, support solutions and strengthen resilience. Based on these vital contributions, we invite you – Indigenous Peoples, your representatives, organizations and networks – to join the Santiago Network’s growing community of Members.
What is the Santiago Network?
The Santiago Network carries out its work as a body of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage. It offers technical assistance to developing countries, Indigenous Peoples and vulnerable communities to address the impacts of climate change that can lead to loss and damage, and to avert, mitigate and adapt to these impacts. One of the Network’s key aims is to facilitate community-based organizations, networks and experts, including Indigenous Peoples from all regions and ecosystems, to share and exchange knowledge and expertise that can contribute to effective action and protect lives, homes, livelihoods and ways of life.
The Network is designed to be inclusive and participatory. A member and alternate were selected by the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change to participate in the Santiago Network’s Advisory Board (SNAB) to ensure that the voices, perspectives, knowledge and needs of Indigenous Peoples will inform the Network’s work and decisions.
Why join?
Indigenous Peoples are among those most affected by climate change, despite having historically contributed least to its causes. At the same time, Indigenous Peoples of the world are vital leaders in climate action based on their deep connections to lands, waters, food and ecosystems as well as their traditional knowledge and cultural practices which strengthen resilience and restoration. Indigenous Peoples’ engagement is essential to ensure that actions to avert and address loss and damage are effective, equitable and respectful of rights and intergenerational, collective knowledge systems.
Joining the Santiago Network offers many benefits. For example, you can:
- Share knowledge, practices and lived experience in the form of technical assistance, with support provided by the Network
- Participate across the Network’s activities, including through collaboration and knowledge exchanges with others that are impacted
- Strengthen partnerships among Indigenous Peoples and States to take effective action to avert, respond to and address loss and damage
- Request technical assistance from others who are addressing similar impacts
How to join:
Interested in becoming a Member? We invite you to submit an expression of interest through our online portal, in line with the established guidelines. In case of questions or need for support, please reach out directly to the Secretariat at [email protected], or to the IIPFCC’s SNAB representatives Gideon Sanago, [email protected] and Andrea Carmen, [email protected]. We look forward to your engagement!
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A CALL FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO JOIN THE SANTIAGO NETWORK
Indigenous Peoples play a critical role in climate action, bringing generations of knowledge, values, wisdom and sustainable practices that protect nature, support solutions and strengthen resilience. Based on these vital contributions, we invite you – Indigenous Peoples, your representatives, organizations and networks – to join the Santiago Network’s growing community of Members.
What is the Santiago Network?
The Santiago Network carries out its work as a body of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage. It offers technical assistance to developing countries, Indigenous Peoples and vulnerable communities to address the impacts of climate change that can lead to loss and damage, and to avert, mitigate and adapt to these impacts. One of the Network’s key aims is to facilitate community-based organizations, networks and experts, including Indigenous Peoples from all regions and ecosystems, to share and exchange knowledge and expertise that can contribute to effective action and protect lives, homes, livelihoods and ways of life.
The Network is designed to be inclusive and participatory. A member and alternate were selected by the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change to participate in the Santiago Network’s Advisory Board (SNAB) to ensure that the voices, perspectives, knowledge and needs of Indigenous Peoples will inform the Network’s work and decisions.
Why join?
Indigenous Peoples are among those most affected by climate change, despite having historically contributed least to its causes. At the same time, Indigenous Peoples of the world are vital leaders in climate action based on their deep connections to lands, waters, food and ecosystems as well as their traditional knowledge and cultural practices which strengthen resilience and restoration. Indigenous Peoples’ engagement is essential to ensure that actions to avert and address loss and damage are effective, equitable and respectful of rights and intergenerational, collective knowledge systems.
Joining the Santiago Network offers many benefits. For example, you can:
- Share knowledge, practices and lived experience in the form of technical assistance, with support provided by the Network
- Participate across the Network’s activities, including through collaboration and knowledge exchanges with others that are impacted
- Strengthen partnerships among Indigenous Peoples and States to take effective action to avert, respond to and address loss and damage
- Request technical assistance from others who are addressing similar impacts
How to join:
Interested in becoming a Member? We invite you to submit an expression of interest through our online portal, in line with the established guidelines. In case of questions or need for support, please reach out directly to the Secretariat at [email protected], or to the IIPFCC’s SNAB representatives Gideon Sanago, [email protected] and Andrea Carmen, [email protected]. We look forward to your engagement!