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Addressee: Bilateral Donors
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The Permanent Forum recommends that bilateral donors increase official development assistance (ODA) to the level of 0.7 per cent of gross national product, as agreed in the outcome document of the International Conference on Financing for Development, as stated in the Millennium Development Goals and as reaffirmed in the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and also recommends that the donors ensure that targeted ODA is available for indigenous peoples. ODA will be used primarily for reinforcing indigenous peoples’ own priorities and for programmes to promote their development with identity.
Responses
The Government of Spain reports: “With regard to paragraph 42, the Spanish Government has undertaken to increase its official development assistance (ODA) to 0.5 per cent in 2008 and to achieve 0.7 per cent in 2012; funding for cooperation with indigenous peoples will be increased proportionately. Currently, 6 per cent of AECI’s total budget is allocated for that purpose.”
Final Report of UNPFII Session 5 (2006)
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