Africa: The Struggle to Get Indigenous Knowledge Into Policy

15 May 2015

Compared with national and regional programmes, global level recognition of the importance of indigenous knowledge to scientific assessments has been lagging. But recently there have been signs of a shift in thinking among the organisations that help shape international agreements.

For starters, an indigenous expert has made it onto the UN secretary-general's board of science advisors. Plus, experimental projects are finding ways of making indigenous knowledge 'citeable' to ease its integration into scientific reports. And several important reports - including those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - are recognising indigenous peoples' contributions. Some of these small steps could pave the way to a better use of indigenous knowledge in the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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