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The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States actively engage with their indigenous peoples in both developed countries and developing countries, including indigenous women, indigenous youth and indigenous persons with disabilities, in developing key indicators on indigenous peoples, including for data disaggregation, to be included in the overall indicators for the post-2015 development agenda to be adopted in March 2016.
Responses
• The global indicator list (adopted by the Statistical Commission on 11 March) includes at least 4 indicators that indigenous peoples have been lobbying for: 1.4.2 on land rights (including type of tenure capturing collective land rights); 2.3.2 on income of small-scale food producers, also by indigenous status, 4.5.1 on closing disparities in education, also for indigenous peoples and 5.a.1 on women’s land rights (including type of tenure). Of relevance is also indicators 10.3.1 and 16.b.1 on peoples’ perception of discrimination based on prohibited grounds of discrimination in international human rights law. • The indicator list includes a general paragraph on data disaggregation (by income, sex, age, ethnicity, migratory status, disability and geographic location, or other characteristics, in accordance with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics) but no mentioning of indigenous peoples here. • During the Statistical Commission, a separate working group under the Inter Agency Expert Group on SDGs was established to do more technical work and capacity building on data disaggregation in the future. • It is expected that Member States will develop regional and national indicators in line with the principles of the 2030 Agenda, guided by the global level, but based on national circumstances (A/RES/70/1 – para 55).
Final Report of UNPFII Session 14 (2015)
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