Organized by Tebtebba, representatives of 17 countries and several resource experts convened in North Sumatra, Indonesia, on August 25-27, to produce the Toba Declaration which calls on national governments and international mechanisms to embrace community mapping as an integral component to realizing indigenous rights and the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples in climate change policy. During a technical working group meeting for operationalizing community-based monitoring and information systems (CBMIS) following the conference, participants called for further integration and coordination of CBMIS proponents at the regional and global level. The conference provided a forum to share best practices, discuss challenges to participatory mapping and the risks associated with exchanging indigenous forestry knowledge, and how these seemingly disparate groups can work together to strategically advance their agendas as preparations for the 2014 World Conference of Indigenous Peoples begin.