SAIP Goa workshop invitation

From: Sebastian Rodrigues <sebydesiolim@gmail.com>
Date: 17 Oct 2007

25Oct[d] SAIP Goa workshop invitation

Dear Friends,

Movements related tribal rights all over India are in the process of publishing a consolidated reference book about the Status of Adivasis and Indigenous People (SAIP) in India.

In Goa too there are Adivasis and the Study is being prepared. The draft is ready and for the wider discussion a two days workshop is being planned in Goa on Saturday - Sunday, November 24-25, 2007 in Panjim at Caritas Hallfrom 10.00am to 5.00pm.

The workshop is organised MAND, An adivasi-rights resource centre, an initiative of Gawda, Kunbi, Velip, and Dhangar Federation (GAKUVED), in collaboration with Nature, Environment, Society and Transformations (NEST).

The collaboration is with the background that NEST has played very crucial role since 2004 in the evolution of MAND and the ideological direction towards focus on land issues on the past of GAKUVED.

The draft two full days programme will consists of the following discussion sessions:

1. Introduction of SAIP study project
2. Visual description of MAND evolution
3. Goa Study: Pre-Portuguese situation of tribes in Goa
4. Goa Study: Tribes under Portuguese colonial Period
5. Goa Study: Tribes after 1961 liberation
6. Planning ahead: Crafting networks for tribal empowerment in Goa

Participants are expected to have read the draft Goa report and offer critical comments on any of the themes of the study during the workshop. In case participants want to send in their written comments in advance you are welcome to do so.

In case you need the copy of the draft study, please let me know at the earliest. We have arranged for 50 participants totally. Please confirm your participation by October 25, 2007.

There is no participation fee and lunch and refreshments will be provided by the organizers. Staying arrangement for 10 outstation participants have been made at Conference venue itself. We are however not in a position to provide for travel allowances.

Kindly pass on this invite to those you think will be interested.

Do get in touch with me either on this e-mail : mandgoa@gmail.com or on my
mobile: 09923336347.

In Solidarity,

Sebastian Rodrigues

(Co-ordinator)