Regional Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Communal Land Management in Asia

Regional Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Communal Land Management in Asia
ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines, 8-9 December 2004

8:30 a.m.	Registration
8:45 – 9:00 am	Welcome Remarks
9:00 – 9:15 am	Conference Overview Jayantha Perera
9:15 – 10:15 am	Session I Theme: Issues, Criteria and Difficulties in Defining ‘Indigenous Peoples’ and Associated Concepts and Labels Chair: Scarlett Epstein Who are Indigenous Peoples? Jayantha Perera Issues Concerning Applicability of ADB’s Indigenous Peoples Policy: An Illustration based on Pakistan Project Operations Jamshed Tirmizi
10:15 – 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm	Session II Theme: Development Interventions and Displacement of Indigenous Peoples Chair: Hari Mathur Indigenous Peoples, Communal Land System and Development-Induced Displacement: A View from India Hari Mathur
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm	Planning for the Benefit of Indigenous Peoples: A Case Study from Orissa, India Parthapriya Ghosh Discussion Tribals’ access to Forest lands in India Kinsuk Mitra Upholding Indigenous Access to Natural Resources in Northeast Cambodia John McAndrew and Ouer II
3:00 – 3:15 pm	Break
3:15 – 4:45 pm	Land Development Policy and Impoverishment of Indigenous Peoples In Sarawak, Malaysia Jayantha Perera Discussion

8:30 - 10:00 am	Session III Theme: State and Indigenous Peoples Chair: Kinsuk Mitra Access to Land of Highland Indigenous Minorities: Plural Property Rights and Law Reform in Cambodia Indira Simbolon Issues on Communal Land Management in the Cordillera Region of Northern Philippines June Prill Brett and Lorelei Mendoza
10:00 – 10:15 am	Break
10:15 am – 12:00 pm	Iraya’s Mehura: Challenges in Defining and Codifying their Ancestral Domain – A Case Study from the Philippines Ruben Martinez Discussion
12:00 – 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 pm	Session IV Theme: Inclusive Development and Indigenous People Chair: Jayantha Perera Clan Landownership, Matrilineal Kinship and The Development Of Cocoa as a Cash Crop Among the Tolai of Papua New Guinea Scarlett Epstein Pro-Poor Development and Social Cohesion Ashish John
3:00 – 3:15 pm	Break
3:15 – 3:30 pm	Reducing Poverty Among Ethnic Minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Manoshi Mitra
3:30– 5:30 pm	Session V: Open Forum and Closing Remarks Chair: Scarlett Epstein