Latin American Working Group

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Description

The Latin American Working Group aims to foster a collaborative network for mutual knowledge exchange. It enables experts to share resources while opening spaces where local stakeholders can provide insights regarding the region's unique challenges and the best ways to address them. This collaborative approach allows for a greater adaptation of the tools and mechanisms that we seek to implement, capturing the particularities of our Latin American region to develop resources and solutions more adapted to our context's specific realities and challenges. Additionally, the group seeks to establish pathways and mechanisms to enhance capacity and mobilize resources to achieve these goals.

Objectives

Map individuals, projects, and programmes in the region that explicitly address Conflict and Coexistence
Adapt and/or expand specific content of the IUCN Guidelines on HWCC to the specific context of Latin America
Create learning opportunities through lectures, courses, workshops, and in-person and online meetings to exchange experiences through establish a community of practice for collective learning
Adding Spanish and Portuguese resources to the IUCN Online HWC Library

Working group members

The Latin American Working Group was formed through the nomination of experts outside the HWCCSG who had expressed interest in participating. It includes experts from diverse backgrounds, all focusing on HWCC in Latin America. These members have generously volunteered their time for this initiative. Applications to join the Working Group are currently under development and will be announced once ready. The complete Terms of Reference for the Working Group can be found here.