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This website provides information and resources on FPIC as a tool of self-determination to assist communities in decision making. We have selected articles, tool kits, videos, voice messages, and community stories about FPIC and consultation.
This report by the National Aboriginal Health Organization presents the definition and purpose of Impact Benefit Agreements (IBAs), the process of using IBAs, what things are included in IBAs and Inuit observations on IBAs.
Consultation protocol for indigenous communities in Argentina.
This Latin American agenda is a pedagogical resource for communities to be informed, following a 3 step process (See, Think, Act). In this 2012 issue, they speak about "Good living", building from Indigenous knowledge about the best practices to be followed, learning from ancestral wisdom.
The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent buen vivir ("good life"), Latin America’s new concept for collective well being, can be considered a way forward beyond current paradigms related to economic growth, development, ideology and state building.
The dissertation focuses on the case of the Raramuri indigenous people of Northern Mexico, and uses detailed ethnographic evidence to explore how discourses of wellbeing are constructed by the Raramuri people in their daily interactions with the non-indigenous population and how power asymmetries between these groups form and persist.
This document looks at Buen Vivir in a larger philosophical overview.