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Addressee: UN agencies funds and programmes
Paragraph Number: 84
Session: 17 (2018)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum requests that entities, agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system allocate relevant financial and human resources to carry out commitments to indigenous peoples, as per the system-wide action plan on the rights of indigenous peoples and respective strategic plans and programmes and to provide information to the Forum about the allocation of such resources at its annual sessions.
Area of Work: Funding and Resources
Addressee: SCBD, IASG and Donor Agencies
Paragraph Number: 135
Session: 6 (2007)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum calls upon the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity to work in partnership with other members of the Inter-Agency Support Group and donors to organize regional workshops for the purposes of information exchange and capacity-building among Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities and other stakeholders with regard to the proposed international regime on access and benefit-sharing. In addition, the secretariat is called upon to provide financial support for indigenous networks to disseminate information, in appropriate and accessible languages, and through appropriate media, to indigenous communities on this issue.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development, Cooperation
Addressee: UN system/UN agencies
Paragraph Number: 135
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum wishes to express its appreciation to the Inter-Agency Support Group for its contribution to the work of the Forum, and encourages all United Nations agencies to join the Group, particularly those whose area of work is of special relevance for the rights and well-being of indigenous peoples, such as the World Health Organization.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
