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Addressee: UN system, others donors
Paragraph Number: 99
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the growing interest in participation in the Forum’s sessions among Africa’s indigenous peoples’ representatives, States, the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, and academic institutions working in Africa. The Forum requests that the United Nations system and other donors scale up their support for the participation of indigenous peoples of Africa in the Forum’s annual sessions.
Area of Work: Funding and Resources
Paragraph Number: 132
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum urges Member States and financial institutions to enhance direct financial support for Indigenous Peoples-led projects with funding mechanisms that are equitable, non-discriminatory, accessible, flexible and responsive to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determined priorities across all seven sociocultural regions, without political impediments that could obstruct fair resource allocation. Such support should empower Indigenous Peoples to manage their environmental resources and engage in sustainable economic activities without reliance on intermediaries.
Area of Work: Funding and Resources, Autonomy and Self-determination
Addressee: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Paragraph Number: 99
Session: 4 (2005)
Full Text:
The United Nations Children's Fund should initiate country-specific situation analyses of indigenous youth and children through field offices in countries with indigenous communities and transmit such situation analyses to the Forum
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
