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Amerindian involvement in the Forest sector

•  All elected village and community leaders.
•  Twenty executive members from all ten

administrative regions.

• Established according to the Amerindian act 2006.

COMPOSITION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL TOSHAOS COUNCIL

• To promote good governance in indigenous village.
• To investigate issues affecting indigenous people.
•  To prepare strategies and plans as it relates to reducing

poverty and improve access to health and education.

• To prepare strategies and plans for the protection

conservation and sustainable management of village managements of village lands and natural resources found therein.

• To represent and make recommendation to Government and

agencies nationally and internationally on behalf of indigenous people. ROLE OF THE NATOINAL TOSHAOS COUNCIL

• Indigenous people own approximately 14% of Guyana land MASS.
• Titled village have legal titles to land
• To date over 100 villages have received titles to their land and 35

communities are in the process.

• All forest resources found on titled lands are manage by the

villages.

• Village council develop their own rules and regulations to manage

their forest resources.

• Any timber sustainable harvest within Amerindian lands by a

resident logger is deem legal.

INDIGENOUS OWNERSHIP TO LAND

•  Minimum skilled person in village.
•  Absence community of forest rangers.
•  Lack of I.T devices.
• Lack of financial resources to conduct awareness sessions in

each Amerindian village.

• High transportation cost to access Amerindian villages.
• Limited communication among village due to geographical

location.

CHALLENGES FACED BY AMERINDIAN VILLAGES

•  Availability of more markets for timber an timber

products.

• Improve forest monitoring.
• Capacity building for village councils and loggers .
• More support to enforce sustainable harvesting of

forest produce.

• Opportunity to partner with other stakeholders to

promote better forest governance.

PROPOSE BENEFITS OF EU FLEGT

• In March 2010 the NTC was invited to the stakeholders

preliminary discussion on the FLEGT VPA

• In September 2010 the NTC was involved in the exploratory

workshop with various stakeholders on the EU FLEGT.

• NTC is a member of the national technical working group that
• versee the FLEGT VPA process in Guyana.
• The NTC was part of the two negotiation sessions between

Guyana and the EU held so far. INDIGENOUS INVOLVEMENT IN THE FLEGT VPA PROCESS

• In March 2013 workshop was held on the VPA focusing on the legality

definition, TOR’s for communication strategy and impact study with 28 Amerindian communities

• Amerindian NGO’s are also part of the stakeholders constituency

groupings

• In August 2013 the NTC did outreach awareness sessions on the FLEGT VPA

with Amerindian communities in Region 1.

• In October 2013 Presentation on the FLEGT VPA was done at the National

Toshaos Conference to over 198 Amerindian leaders.

• Several outreach and consultation on FLEGT process among these

indigenous communities.

• An indigenous NGO is presently conducting workshop on the VPA

indigenous communities.

INDIGENOUS PARTICIPATION IN ONE OF THE STAKEHOLDERS MEETING ON THE VPA

• All Amerindian village lands should be clearly

demarcated and titles be given.

• Proposed extension areas should not be given as

concessions to miners or foresters.

• Some forest regulations need to be reviewed as it

relate indigenous communities.

• Better road links need to be develop to reduce

transportation cost.

• Processing facilities need to be establish in village to

add value to forest produces.

• More funding need to be made available to the NTC so

that more awareness outreach can be done.

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