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Addressee: OCHA, UN system/UN agencies

Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 7 (2008)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum recommends that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and other relevant United Nations agencies further develop and enhance natural disaster preparedness and mitigation strategies involving indigenous peoples in the development and implementation of those strategies.

Area of Work: Environment, Economic and Social Development
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Addressee: Member States, UN agencies, funds and programmes

Paragraph Number: 28
Session: 2 (2003)
Full Text:

The Forum expresses concern over development practices that do not take into account the particular characteristics of indigenous communities as groups, with their distinct cultural identities and often their own systems of representation, thus significantly undermining meaningful ways of participation in the assessment, preparation, execution and evaluation of development programmes of their concern.

Area of Work: Economic and Social Development