To spearhead its work on this challenging objective, IPBES Plenary created at its Second Meeting the Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) Systems. The present document is a contribution to the IPBES regional assessment for Africa. Its aim is twofold:
▶ To assist the co-chairs, coordinating lead authors and lead authors of the regional assessment for Africa by facilitating their access to indigenous and local knowledge relevant to the
assessment theme.
▶To pilot the initial approaches and procedures for building ILK into IPBES assessments that are under development by the ILK task force in order to test their efficacy and improve the final ILK approaches and procedures that the task force will propose to the Plenary of IPBES.
These contributions from the Africa Dialogue Workshop in Paris and its various follow-up meetings provide a compendium of ILK about biodiversity and ecosystem services in Africa that might not otherwise be available to the authors of the assessment. It complements the body of ILK on biodiversity in Africa that the authors are able to access from the scientific and grey literature.
