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Addressee: Indigenous peoples' organizations, UN Resident Coordinators' Offices, UN system/UN agencies
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In order to improve the implementation of its recommendations, the Permanent Forum calls upon United Nations agencies to ensure that there are systems in place to share information with and distribute information to indigenous peoples at the local level so that they have the opportunity to engage with the work of the United Nations at the country level and express their views and concerns and implement their policies. The Forum also encourages indigenous peoples’ organizations to engage actively with the United Nations system at the country level and urges United Nations resident coordinators’ offices to engage with indigenous peoples’ organizations and representatives and ensure their active participation and consultation in policy dialogues at the national level.
Responses
UNDP has reported on the establishment and work of Indigenous Peoples' Advisory committees in Bolivia and Kenya. UNICEF has a consultative group of indigenous leaders at the regional level in Latin America and the Caribbean.
DESA reports: 28. In response to the recommendations made by the Permanent Forum at its seventh session addressed specifically to the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (E/2008/43, para. 73), the Division for Sustainable Development has continued to strengthen and support the existing mechanisms that provide a platform for indigenous local-local cooperation and the establishment of a network of indigenous local governments for information exchange and capacity-building. The Division has also collaborated closely with other Department of Economic and Social Affairs colleagues to develop, fund and launch the Department’s Integrated Civil Society Organizations (iCSO) System3 to facilitate interactions among civil society organizations and the Department at all levels. The iCSO System is an online database that includes all non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, is also open to any interested civil society organizations that wish to provide information and can serve as a potential tool for collaboration and networking among civil society organizations at all levels. Indigenous peoples’ organizations and other non-governmental organizations working with, and for, indigenous and local communities can be selected as searchfields and identified based on location, regional scope, areas of activity and other data.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 7 (2008)
Area of Work
