Ownership in Practice: Indigenous Leadership and the Next Twenty Years of Restoratio

Getting community engagement right before a project launches is one thing. Sustaining indigenous leadership and local ownership once implementation is underway is another challenge entirely. Benefit-sharing structures, funder requirements, and decision-making processes can shift in ways that dilute ownership that looked solid on paper. This session draws on restoration experiences from around the world to examine what real ownership looks like under real operating conditions. The panel closes with a single forward-looking question to each speaker: if community-owned restoration is the norm twenty years from now, what needs to change starting today?

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