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Addressee: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Paragraph Number: 70
Session: 3 (2004)
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The Forum reaffirms the UNDP focus on implementing its policy of working with indigenous peoples at the country level, and urges UNDP to continue its work to develop a policy on land tenure rights with the participation of indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 8 (2009)
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The Permanent Forum urges States with indigenous peoples whose livelihoods and cultures are based upon sea, river and lake fisheries to recognize fishing rights that will build solid foundations for securing and developing local indigenous communities and their cultures.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: IFIs
Paragraph Number: 54
Session: 12 (2013)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that international financial institutions unequivocally acknowledge the collective right of indigenous peoples to their lands, territories and resources in their safeguard policies and in all development project contexts (not merely in exceptional circumstances). Banks should not support any projects that affect indigenous peoples without prior recognition of and effective guarantees for their collective rights to own, control and manage their lands, territories and resources.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 70
Session: 21 (2022)
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The Permanent Forum urges States to support the economic activities of indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous women, by enhancing their equal access to productive resources and agricultural inputs, such as land, seeds, financial services, technology, transportation and information.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
Addressee: IFAD
Paragraph Number: 025 (Session 9 Appendix)
Session: 8 (2009)
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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
Paragraph Number: 70
Session: 7 (2008)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the International Labour Organization (ILO) continue to work with the Forum, United Nations agencies, financial institutions, bilateral donors and other interested parties to further the inclusion of indigenous peoples’ rights in high-level development policies and poverty reduction strategy papers, such as by raising indigenous peoples’ issues with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and its related Development Assistance Committee.
Area of Work: Economic and Social Development
