A seminar regarding the “National Policy for the Territorial and Environmental Management of Indigenous Lands (Política Nacional de Gestão Territorial e Ambiental de Terras Indígenas: PNGATI) – advances, challenges and implementation strategies in the indigenous Amazon”, organized by the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço: CESE) and the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia: COIAB) with support from the Amazon Fund/National Bank for Economic and Social Development (Fundo Amazônia: FAM/Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social: BNDES), took place on November 27 in the city of Manaus (AM). The event was attended by representatives of 26 indigenous organizations from the Brazilian Amazon and by partners.
The meeting was part of the agenda for the Project Development and Management Workshop, aimed at the organizations approved in the first Dabucury call for proposals, with a focus on territorial and environmental management initiatives in the Amazon. The seminar provided a valuable moment of reflection and learning about PNGATI, its progress, challenges and implementation strategies.
The morning panel was made up of Toya Manchineri, COIAB’s General Coordinator; Auricélia Arapiun, from COIAB’s Deliberative Council and Coordinator of the PNGATI Steering Committee; and Vinícius Benites Alves, CESE’s Projects and Training Advisor. A brief history of PNGATI was presented, from its construction to the current context of Draft Law 4347/2021.