To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Innovators Magazine in 2025, every month this year we will publish some of our milestone moments: the stories, podcasts, new initiatives and projects that have shaped our journey so far. Here’s one of the first Inside Ideas podcast episodes from Marc Buckley (first published in 2020):
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is my guest on Inside Ideas. An environmental activist and member of Chad’s pastoralist Mbororo community, Hindou began advocating for Indigenous rights and environmental protection at age 16, founding the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT) to introduce new income revenue activities for women and collaborative tools such as 3D participatory mapping to build sustainable ecosystems management and reduction of nature-based resource conflicts. Her vision is to grow support for both traditional knowledge and science to improve resilience to climate change especially for rural communities.
She is a member of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa
Coordinating Committee and served as co-chair of the International Indigenous
Peoples Forum on Climate Change during the historic UN Climate Change
Conference (COP21) in Paris. She is dedicated to the protection of all
Indigenous peoples, from the Congo to the Arctic, and the value of their
knowledge in the fight against climate change. She advances environmental
protection for Indigenous peoples by participating in international policy
dialogues held around the three Rio Conventions; Climate Change (UNFCCC),
Biodiversity (CBD), and Desertification (UNCCD) pressuring governments to
recognize land rights of Indigenous peoples and advance their solutions for
climate adaptation and mitigation.
Ibrahim’s work with indigenous communities at the local and global level has achieved broad recognition and support including, the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, the Daniel Mitterrand Prize, appointment as a UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocate, Conservation International board member and Lui-Walton Senior Fellow, EAT advisory board member and National Geographic Explorer. She was recognized by BBC as a top 100 women leader and by TIME’s Women Leaders in Climate Change.
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, President, Association for Fulani Women and Indigenous Peoples of Chad; Global Chair, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Africa (Chad).
Coming up…
The main picture, taken in Songdo, South Korea, shows Hindou talking with Holly, the youngest member of our team. Holly is busy working on some new podcast shows herself. First up, Holly speaks with the author of A Child in Berlin, Rhonda Lauritzen, and the child – now a grandmother – who the book is about, Heidi Posnien. This is Heidi’s gripping real-life story in Germany during World War Two when, as a 10-year-old, she had to survive alone in her Berlin apartment and protect it until her mum came home. The book tells the story of Heidi’s amazing resilience before and after the time she had to protect her home alone.
Holly’s first show will appear on Inside Ideas in the playlist: ‘Holly’s Book Club’ with episode one dropping on 31 January. Sign up for our newsletter to get this episode sent straight to your inbox.
Marc is Editor-at-Large for Innovators Magazine and host of INSIDE IDEAS, his OnePoint5Media video podcast show. Marc is a member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network, Resilient Futurist, and award-winning Global Food Reformist.
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