Honouring Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Health and Water-related Climate Change Research and Action: Insights from Nepal, Kenya and the United States.
Online event
About this Event
Format: webinar broadcast from The Hub @ Wellcome Collection
Event details: London Climate Action Week, w/c 23rd June
Date: 25th June 2025
Time: 3pm BST / 5pm Nairobi
Audience: Funders, researchers, general public, London Climate Action Week attendees, CSOs, international stakeholders (UN agencies)
Accessibility: This event will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into French and closed captioning.
Concept:
This event will explore how Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Systems (ITEKs) are integral to developing culturally relevant solutions to pressing health challenges related to the degradation of water ecosystems. Through case studies from Kenya, Nepal and the United States, the event will emphasize the importance of safeguarding communities’ fundamental human right to water and investing in ITEKs by taking to account their significance in shaping community-driven research, solutions and policies on water, health, and climate resilience.
Our speakers will draw on their own lived experiences and those of the communities they work with to unpack why it is important to invest in and honour ITEKs in the co-creation and implementation of culturally appropriate, community-led solutions and adaptation strategies. They will discuss alignment with community values and decision-making processes and how Indigenous communities are engaged in management of water and health resources, including intergenerational knowledge transfer and addressing identified climate-related health issues. Each speaker will also bring a different angle of an intersectional perspective, considering how gender, disability, and age intersect with Indigenous ways of knowing.
This event, co-organised by Minority Rights Group and Wellcome Trust, with speakers from Endorois Indigenous Women’s Empowerment Network (EIWEN) and Friends of Lake Turkana (FOLT) in Kenya; the National Indigenous Disabled Women’s Association Nepal (NIDWAN); New York City College of Technology (CUNY); the Mi’kmaq Nation of Aroostook County, Maine, US; and a discussant from UNESCO.
How to join us:
Watch via the MRG website: https://minorityrights.org/events/lww-event/
Via webinar link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MmM0OWVmYTEtMzE2ZC00NDQwLWJjNzgtMjhjZGYzNzUzNzZm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%223b7a675a-1fc8-4983-a100-cc52b7647737%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%221b41f4eb-863b-49ba-9772-b37e527d33d8%22%7d
Meeting ID: 334 029 676 284 1
Passcode: ue37pD66
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Minority Rights Group and Wellcome Trust
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