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Addressee: CBD, Private Sector, Indigenous Peoples
Paragraph Number: 7
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes such initiatives as the indigenous and local community, business and biodiversity consultation, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 12 and 13 May 2009, as a useful dialogue between the private sector and indigenous peoples, and encourages further discussions with a view to ensuring the effective implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples while stimulating community-level businesses based on the sustainable use of biodiversity through such creative partnerships.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: SPFII
Paragraph Number: 37
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that a meeting of international financial institutions be convened, with the
participation of the Forum, to consider issues related to their policies, procedures and relationships concerning indigenous peoples, and that a report of the meeting be prepared for consideration at
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: IFAD
Paragraph Number: 025 (Session 9 Appendix)
Session: 8 (2009)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that when planning, preparing and implementing its programmes and projects, IFAD conduct the necessary investigations so as to ensure that the particularities and cultural sensitivities of indigenous peoples involved in and affected by the programmes and projects are taken into account. The Permanent Forum underlines the fact that indigenous peoples are to be engaged as an active and equal partner in all processes and phases of programmes and projects.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
