Launching the Forum Community of Practice: Gathering Insights and Building Alliances
Hosted by the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum, this event marks the public launch of the Forum’s Community of Practice (CoP) – a structured, Forum-convened learning platform designed to strengthen governance, benefit sharing, and social integrity in carbon projects through community-led case studies, peer exchange, and cross-regional synthesis. The event will introduce the CoP to a wider audience, present its purpose and design, gather insights and interests from participants, and invite aligned organisations to explore how they might contribute.
Through plenary presentations, an open panel discussion, and a facilitated networking session, the event will:
present the Community of Practice – its purpose, guiding principles, operating model, and governance.
gather insights and interests from participants on the themes, regions, and questions they most want the CoP to address, including perspectives from Indigenous Peoples, local communities, civil society, and market actors;
invite aligned organisations – those working on justice, equity, community voice, and participatory practice in carbon and related markets – to explore participation pathways and ways of contributing to the CoP as learning contributors, knowledge supporters, or enablers.
About the Engagement Forum
The Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum is a unique self-governed space built for, and led by, Indigenous Peoples as well as local communities. The Forum’s core aim is to ensure that the rights and interests of both Indigenous Peoples and local communities are central in a high integrity carbon market. The Forum holds a neutral position on carbon markets and seeks to enable communities to self-strengthen so that they can choose whether to engage in the market in an informed way – not as beneficiaries but as co-owners and equal partners. The Forum is hosted by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) but operates independently.
To read more about the Forum, please visit: https://indigenousengagementforum.org/