Creating a community crest in Ngilai, Northern Kenya. © Roshni Lodhia/Legado.
Indigenous communities protect much of the planet's remaining biodiversity, yet their perspectives are rarely included in development decisions. This has to change.
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Join Planet Women for a special interactive event with our grant partner, Legado, a women-led nonprofit that works alongside Indigenous communities as they design and implement Legacy Plans, which are holistic visions for a thriving future that benefit both people and biodiversity.
Legado’s Majka Burkhardt and Tita Alvira will share tangible lessons learned by putting women at the heart of their 360° Community-Led Change approach. They will share examples from their work with Indigenous Peoples in Peru, Mozambique, and Kenya, and demonstrate how they facilitate effective partnerships between communities and government agencies. Please bring a paper and a pen, so you can participate in the planning activities.
Spanish Translation will be available. La traducción al Español estará disponible.
Timezones:
Pacific: 9am - 10am
Eastern/Colombia/Peru: 12pm - 1pm
United Kingdom: 5pm - 6pm
Central Africa: 6pm - 7pm
Meet the Speakers:
Majka Burhardt, Founder and Executive Director, has spent nearly three decades leading social entrepreneurship ventures across Africa, Europe, and South and North America. Majka's diverse background blends her career as a professional climber, author, and anthropologist into her passion for leading teams to approach complex challenges with innovative solutions. She started Legado in the mountains of Mozambique where the Queen of Mount Namuli, Adelina Jassisone, challenged Majka to build an organization that considered all aspects of her community’s thriving, not just conservation.
Dr. Tita Alvira, Legado’s Chief Partnerships and Programs Officer, is an interdisciplinary ecologist from Colombia, South America. She has more than 20 years of experience working in biocultural approaches to conservation, implementing community-centered conservation for well-being programs, and participatory action research methodologies focused on social and cultural assets for conserving the cultural and biological diversity in the Andes Amazon region of South America.