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Addressee: Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Paragraph Number: 32
Session: 4 (2005)
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The Forum recommends that FAO develop a strategic plan for working with indigenous peoples by defining the FAO mission, vision and conceptual framework for indigenous peoples
Area of Work: Cooperation, Methods of Work
Addressee: World Bank, PFII and IPOs
Paragraph Number: 119
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that the World Bank continue dialogue and direct consultation with indigenous peoples, and that a permanent dialogue be held among indigenous peoples, the World Bank and the Forum.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Cooperation
Addressee: SPFII, ILO, OHCHR
Paragraph Number: 108
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum, recognizing the need for complementarity and coordination of indigenous training and education within the United Nations system, recommends that training and education partners within the United Nations system, in particular the ILO, the Office and other relevant agencies, hold discussions in order to develop a coordinated approach and a common electronic gateway to all education and training opportunities for indigenous peoples within the international system. As the United Nations body for coordination regarding indigenous issues, the Forum will construct the web site of the Forum available for such a gateway.
Area of Work: Education
Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 4 (2005)
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), UNESCO, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and other agencies should continue to support, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, intercultural and bilingual education programs and to promote in particular the right to education, with emphasis on indigenous children; direct financial assistance to indigenous educational institutions should be considered.
Area of Work: Education
Addressee: Donors, Member States , IASG, SPFII
Paragraph Number: 103
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum invites the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues for the Permanent Forum, Governments and donors to maximize collaboration, avoid duplication and advance joint efforts to strengthen work on data collection and identification of indicators relevant to indigenous peoples, the Millennium Development Goals and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: IP
Paragraph Number: 116
Session: 11 (2012)
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The Permanent Forum urges indigenous peoples’ organizations and academic institutions, in particular indigenous peoples’ universities, to prepare thematic studies, within the mandate areas of the Forum, as a contribution to the preparatory processes leading up to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in 2014.
Area of Work: Education, Cooperation
Addressee: UN agencies, Member States
Paragraph Number: 25
Session: 10 (2011)
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In regard to the rights of indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum reiterates its long-standing position of encouraging the United Nations, its organs and specialized agencies, as well as all States, to adopt a human rights-based approach. At the international, regional and national level, the human rights of indigenous peoples are always relevant if such rights are at risk of being undermined. Human rights are indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated. They must be respected in any context specifically concerning indigenous peoples, from environment to development, to peace and security, and many other issues.
Area of Work: Human rights, Cooperation, Methods of Work
Addressee: SPFII, Member States
Paragraph Number: 147
Session: 6 (2007)
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The Permanent Forum expresses appreciation to Mr. Parshuram Tamang and Mr. Yuri Boichenko for their draft questionnaire for United Nations agencies and requests the secretariat of the Permanent Forum to use the questionnaire in seeking information from agencies for its future sessions. The Permanent Forum also supports requests from States that they receive a similar questionnaire and requests the secretariat to carry through this request, in consultation with members of the Permanent Forum.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Cooperation
Paragraph Number: 108
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recalls its mandate to "prepare and disseminate information on indigenous issues", and invites indigenous peoples’ organizations to consider creative ways of educating and disseminating information on the Forum to indigenous peoples’ organizations and communities, including through art, workshops, radio programmes, posters, indigenous journalism and other culturally appropriate media. To that end, the Forum recommends that the programmes, funds and agencies of the United Nations system allocate appropriate resources for this purpose, assist in the production of such materials, include indigenous professionals in the production of such materials and report to the Forum at its third session on the extent to which they have been able to incorporate these actions into their programmes of work. The Forum also recommends that the United Nations Development Fund for Women allocate funding for capacity-building in connection with the Forum and for special outreach to indigenous women. The Forum furthermore recommends that the United Nations Children’s Fund allocate funding for capacity-building in connection with the Forum and for special outreach to indigenous children and youth.
Area of Work: Education
Addressee: Member States, UN System, and IPOs
Paragraph Number: 137
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum also recommends that States, United Nations organizations and indigenous peoples’ organizations strengthen the necessary communication, education and information infrastructure and support networks of educators on indigenous issues. Information and communication technologies (ICT) for indigenous peoples must be supported in order to close the technological and information gap.
Area of Work: Education, MDGs
Addressee: FAO, other relevant Agencies
Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 13 (2014)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the important technical Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of Food Security of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and recommends that FAO and other agencies, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, organize a workshop on the implementation of these guidelines in order to strengthen indigenous peoples’ rights to land, territories and resources consistent with articles 25, 26, 41 and 42 of the Declaration.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: SPFII
Paragraph Number: 152
Session: 5 (2006)
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The Permanent Forum considers continued analysis of national reports on the Millennium Development Goals vital in order to ensure that they take into account the realization of the rights of indigenous peoples and indigenous perspectives.
Area of Work: MDGs, Cooperation
