Mr. Severin SINDIZERA
My indigenous peoples' community who needs to be defender in the fulfilment of rights I protected from a longtime. I have also been engaging with the UN mechanisms since 2012 after being trained by the office high commission for human rights in Geneva under the fellowship of indigenous peoples organized by the United Nations. Now in Burundi, and at international level I work as an expert in the protection the rights of indigenous peoples in the different areas which constitute the indigenous peoples' life. In that way I act for indigenous peoples to improve their living conditions, life improvement and security food for this community etc.
Biography
This is Severin SINDIZERA, an indigenous peoples' community member, who is an activist for human rights and indigenous peoples' rights defender. I am a global Coordinator of an international indigenous platform called “Indigenous Peoples Global Forum for Sustainable Development”-IPGFforSD, and a National Coordinator of the projects for “Association pour l’Integration et le Developpement Durable au Burundi”-AIDB in the UN ECOSOC status, which both organizations I am the founder. Since 2012, I have contributed to improving the living conditions of indigenous peoples by claiming the respect of indigenous peoples' rights after training organized by the United Nations OHCHR through a fellowship program for these discriminated people. After university in sociology, I was trained in several areas such as "project management, understanding and analysis of sustainable development issues, environmental rights, adaptation and mitigation as well as resilience of climate change etc". I have made several presentations in the UN Sessions of the Human Rights Council, Treaty Bodies System of the United Nations and the UN General Assembly in Geneva, New York and Nairobi for Fourth Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) and in Washington DC to attend Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council Meetings in order to defend our community of indigenous peoples to access to GEF programs. I have also contributed to the action program intended for the UN Secretary-General for the development of the new 2030 agenda. I participated in the GPEDC meeting in Nairobi where I contributed as a member of indigenous peoples at the African Forum to defend the policy of leaving no one behind. I have also contributed to CPDE as a member of the Advocacy and Policy Committee and the OECD-DAC SCO Reference Group since 2018. I am a member of an International Steering Committee for Agri-Food Mergers. As Multi-Stakeholder Task Force (MSTF) to represent indigenous peoples in 2021, I contributed to the preparation of the High-Level Meeting (HLM) of the UN General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, which held in 08-11, June 2021. In Burundi, I was the focal point of indigenous peoples in the Global Environment Facilitation Small Grants Program (GEF / SGP) led by UNDP / UNOPS and am a member of a steering committee of the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) of the Global Fund for health to fight against malaria, tuberculosis and HIV / AIDS. Within the CCM, I was firstly a member of the technical monitoring committee during the first term and now a Member of the Proposition Development Committee reviewing the activities of international and national consultants as well as multi-stakeholders of grants requesting to Global funds for the Burundi government. Finally, I am a technical committee member in the context of community referential contributing to the fight against HIV/AIDS for the ministerial program of Burundi. As a Legal Representative of a new platform of the community organizations of indigenous peoples called “POCOBA-STP”to fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Paludism, I am one of the key stakeholders to contribute to the elaboration of the “National Strategic Plan” of Burundi where I raise my voice to incorporate the indigenous peoples’ issues to be resolved.
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Mr. Severin SINDIZERA
I appreciate firstly this initiative to request the proposition of the CSOs to provide their contribution. I contribute as an indigenous people's member. In ending poverty and hunger in the indigenous peoples' community, it is crucial to identify together with FAO the issues, bottlenecks, and risks that constitute the elements of the first step for to elaborate the action plan on which we will underline the strategies and the interventions for indigenous peoples.
At first time, it is better to build a partnership between indigenous peoples with FAO in order to think together about how to make the organization of the preliminary action. After that, we can make the mobilization of resources to build capacity building for the technical and operationalization of indigenous people organizations to engage with the FAO in the context of ending poverty and hunger as well as to conserve the resilience of indigenous peoples face the chocks of climate change. It is also better to recruit one international and other national consultants who will get the role of following up on the implementation of the activities.