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Co-producing Sustainable Ocean Plans with Indigenous and traditional knowledge holders
High Level Panel for A Sustainable Ocean Economy
Indigenous Knowledge Systems hold vital insights for sustainably managing ocean areas and fostering the resilience of marine ecosystems and the people that rely on them. Learning from these systems requires relationship building, adopting community-based participatory approaches and fostering mutual understanding through Indigenous ways of knowing frameworks.
Meaningful co-production of Sustainable Ocean Plans requires recognising Indigenous Peoples’ and traditional communities’ rights, respecting knowledge plurality and establishing equitable partnerships from inception. It also needs to be tailored to local contexts – Indigenous and traditional knowledge is deeply rooted in specific ecosystems, landscapes and cultural understandings of nature.
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