IPSI Collaborative Activity Proposal FormIPSI Collaborative Activities are the activities that shall be undertaken by more than one IPSI memberand constitute an important part of IPSI activities with the purpose of fostering collaboration within theIPSI membership and implementing the IPSI Strategy and Plan of Action. The IPSI Collaborative
Activities shall be developed and implemented with the endorsement of the Steering Committee inaccordance with the Collaborative Activity Guidelines. Resource mobilization for IPSI collaborativeactivities shall be the responsibility of the implementing members in principle. – IPSI Operational
Guidelines, Chapter 5.4
The following form is for use when submitting proposed IPSI Collaborative Activities for consideration by the IPSI
Steering Committee. See the Collaborative Activity Guidelines on p. 3 for more information.
Please return the completed form to the IPSI Secretariat (isi@unu.edu).
Project title:
Promoting and Enhancing the Karen Indigenous Sustainable Socio-ecological Production System in Northern
ThailandCollaborating organizations (IPSI members):
Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Cultural in Thailand Association (IMPECT)
Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Foundation (IKAP)
Forest People Program (FPP)
Conservation International
Other contributing organization(s) (including IPSI non-members):
Pgakenyaw Association for Sustainable Development (PASD)
Karen Network for Culture and Environment (KNCE)
Expected term:
1 April 2016 to 30 September 2018
IPSI strategic objective(s) addressed (tick all that apply; see p. 3 for more details):

1. Increase knowledge and understanding of SEPLS

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2. Address direct and underlying causes responsible for the decline or loss of SEPLS

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3. Enhance benefits from SEPLS

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4. Enhance human, institutional and sustainable financial capacities

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1Description of the activity:
Site locations
1. Mae Tae Khee (Khun Tae), Thailand, Chiang Mai Province, Chomthong District, Doi Kaew Subdistrict, Moo 5
2. Mae Yod Khee, Thailand, Chiang Mai Province, Mae Chaem District, Mae Suk Sub district, Moo 9
3. Mae Um Pai, Thailand, Maehongson Province, Mae La Noi District, Mae Tho Subdistrict, Moo 5
The activities
1. Component 1: Strengthen community organizations and leaders, and enhance networking,including of women and youth groups.
Activity 1 Training and exposure trip
Activity 2: Leadership forums for community leaders, women and youth groups, networks
Activity 3: Lessons learn forum (leaders in communities and networking levels in all project sites)
2. Component 2: Community-based land use mapping and sustainable management planning(including zoning for agriculture, forests and other ecosystems management and community
planning addressing endangered species)
Activity 1
Community GIS survey addressing land use and ownership, classification of forests and areas forrotational farming, including border areas and fallow land that could benefit from replanting andspecies enrichment.
Activity 2:
Landscape and ecosystem protection: fire control (e.g., fire break system); customary use
regulations and rituals for protected spaces; recovering forest landscape with diverse activities
appropriate to the local context
3. Component 3: Revitalization and transmission of traditional knowledge and customary use
practices (to younger generations) for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use [this can goin other columns: spiritual space e.g. rituals, believes, values etc.]
Activity 1:
Strengthen role and authority of the elders, spiritual leaders/shamans and knowledge holders.
Activity 2:
Compile studies on traditional customary laws and regulation as basis to be applied in practice.
Activity 3:
Cultural camps for young people to create youth networking in river basin level
4. Component 4: Communities economic self-reliance through biodiversity-friendly (organic)
agriculture building on traditional rotational farming system and integrating innovative agroforestry activities to increase productivity and livelihoods [such as natural bee raising for honeyproducts and NTFPs]
Activity1: Organize forums on community economic self-determined development.
Activity 2: Implement appropriate self-determined economic activities for food and income.
Activity 3: Develop marketing for local products and community fund for economic self-reliance.
5. Component 5: Public awareness (for media and society) on Karen natural resource management
systems and innovations for sustainable development
Activity1: Compile and produce information and documentation to effectively communicate
Karen natural resource management to the outside world through diverse media (video, internet,social media).
Activity 2: Distribute the information to access main stream media.

6. Component 6: Engage in policy and legal reform at local, national and global level to support andpromote community-based sustainable socio-ecological production systems.
2Activity 1: Organize forums to share results and experiences of the project activities with the aim
to incorporate community plans and rules into the local administration councils.
Activity 2:
Present the project result in national forum to influence relevant national policy makers, andinternationally in relevant global processes (CBD, IPBES, SDGs)
Actors and task sharing
Implement the project:o Intermountain Education and Culture in Thailand Association (IMPECT), Chiang Mai
o Pgaz K’ Nyau Association for Sustainable Development (PASD), Chiang Mai
o Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Foundation (IKAP), Chiang Mai
o Karen Network for Culture and Environment (KNCE)
Technical Advisor:o Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), UKMonitoringo Conservation InternationalHow the activity relates to the IPSI Strategy and IPSI Plan of Action
These activities are aimed at demonstrating well managed SEPLS based on Karen traditional
knowledge and culture achieved through multi-stakeholder partnerships. The expected results would
contribute directly to increased knowledge and understanding of SEPLS, address the direct andunderlying causes responsible for the destruction of SEPLS, and enhance the benefits from SEPLS.
The project also incorporates the use of the Indicators of Resilience in the management andevaluation of its progress which could assist in the enhancement of the indicators if or when revisedin the future. Community members have already benefited from capacity building in this regard andwill be evaluating their SEPLS on their own. Important sections of the toolkit have been translated
into Thai and Karen languages.
In relation to the plan of action, this activity contributes by: Supporting indigenous peoples and local communities (Karen) to produce case studies andrelevant materials to increase the understanding about traditional systems of landscape andseascape management. (Objective 1)
 Facilitating and promoting on-the-ground activities to empower local communities to evaluate,
assess and manage SEPLS (Objective 2).
 Supporting indigenous peoples and local communities to govern and manage their resources,
and sustain or improve social cohesion and local economies (Objective 3).
 Building on the existing work with indicators of resilience in SEPLS by additional testing in thevillages of Mae Tae Khee, Mae Umpai and Mae Yod (Objective 3).
 Exploring opportunities for branding of products derived from the SEPLS of Karen Rotational
Farming systems (Objective 3) through potential partnerships with the private sector and thefurther development of market linkages.
 Facilitating efforts to feed and implement the SEPLS concept into key policy programmes andplans, including NBSAPs/LBSAPs through lobbying the committee Board of Cabinet Resolution ofRecovering Karen Livelihood (Objective 4).
 Organizing workshops, seminars and other capacity building activities, including the exchange ofexperiences among indigenous peoples and local communities based on capacity needs
assessment to implement the IPSI Strategy and Plan of Action (Objective 4).

Expected outcomes
1. Community organizations and leaders in the target areas are strengthened and better networked
32. The three target communities become model for biodiversity sustainable use and conservation bybuilding on their traditional knowledge and customary practices and through innovative community
resource mapping and planning.
3. The target communities generate sustainable forms of biodiversity-friendly agriculture byrevitalizing traditional rotational farming and increasing its productivity through species enrichment,
value added processing, and recovering degraded areas (total area 60,000 Ha).
4. Endangered species in the target areas are protected and a recovering plan is developed, including
protection from invasive alien species.
5. Local and national policies and regulations are influenced by the project and provide support to theKaren cultural and natural resource management systems.
Objectives:o Strengthen and promote culturally-based agriculture and natural resource management ofKaren people in target area and for them to become a good model recognized by government
agencies and replicable by other communities.
o Empower community leaders, organizations and networks to become effective in expressing
their cultural and traditional knowledge and practices, in using modern mapping and land use
planning technology, and in negotiating on the use of natural resources with policy-makers
and others (e.g. private sector)
o Mainstream customary sustainable practices into local and national sustainable development
and biodiversity policy (e.g. NBSAP) and practice through recognition by government agencies
and in relevant policies and laws.

Resources, fundingo GEF-Satoyama Projecto Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC), Bangkoko Mae Suk Sub-District Administration Councilo Administration office of Mae Cheam Districto Royal Projecto Minister of Educationo Etc.

Monitoring and reportingo IMPECTo Conservation International4