Presentation - 9th Roundtable on financing water, Sinegugu Zukulu, leader of the people of Amadiba in the Eastern Cape of South Africa

1. Investing in water
resources
Sinegugu Zukulu (https://swc.org.za/)
zukulusinegugu@gmail.com

2. Indigenous People Territories …..
 “The territories of indigenous peoples comprise about 25 per cent
of the world’s land surface, including approximately 40 per cent
of all protected land areas and ecologically intact landscapes on
their territories, indigenous peoples have preserved 80 per cent of
the remaining terrestrial biodiversity,”
 These territories are faced with numerous challenges: Land and
water grabbing, through the construction of large hydroelectric
dams, the growth of agribusiness, mining operations,
deforestation and tourism developments, which disregard the
rights of indigenous peoples, as well as damage and contaminate
their water sources

3. Payment for EGS ….

4. Investing in water resource
conservation in IP territories
 Payment for ecosystem Goods and services (wetlands, water,
grasslands, Co2 sink by forests)
 Strengthening stewardship & land protection: stop land grab
 Waste management (mining, plastic, nappies, logging,
 Strengthening land tenure
 Stopping extractive industry threats on IP territories
 Implementation of nature based solutions (EBA)
-Rehabilitation and restoration of ecosystems (removal of IAP)
-Rangelands management
-Restoration of indigenous forests
 Natural capital accounting (

5. ASANTE SANA!!!