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Addressee: International financial institutions
Paragraph Number: 124
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Forum calls upon international financial institutions to align policies and safeguards with the Declaration.
Area of Work: Human Rights
Addressee: Forest Tenure Funders Group
Paragraph Number: 129
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Forum regrets that Indigenous Peoples living in environmental ecosystems and latitudes other than tropical and subtropical forests are ineligible for funding, including the $1.7 billion pledge made at the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Forum advises the Forest Tenure Funders Group to promote a dialogue with United Nations mechanisms on the rights of Indigenous Peoples when defining the ongoing and future process of funding for Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Funding and Resources, Cooperation
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: Green Climate Fund
Paragraph Number: 133
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recognizes the efforts of the Green Climate Fund and its Indigenous Peoples’ advisory group, and recommends that the Fund develop a road map for dedicated, predictable funding for Indigenous Peoples, including through capacity-building at the national level to ensure that the Fund’s Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme2 supports Indigenous Peoples. The Forum requests a progress report at its next session in 2025.
Area of Work: Funding and Resources, Capacity Building, Climate Change
Addressee: Global Environment Facility
Paragraph Number: 134
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recognizes the importance of financing for Indigenous Peoples and appreciates the Global Environment Facility’s target of allocating 20 per cent of its funds to support initiatives for Indigenous Peoples. The Forum urges the Facility to create direct financing mechanisms for Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Funding and Resources, Climate Change
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 135
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States strengthen and implement legal and institutional frameworks that recognize and protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples to their lands, territories and resources and ensure their participation in decision-making processes. Such frameworks should adhere to the Declaration and Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization, ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent when development, environment, biodiversity and climate change programmes and projects are conducted on their lands and territories.
Area of Work: Human Rights, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Climate Change, Economic and Social Development, Participation
Addressee: Member States; International organizations
Paragraph Number: 137
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates its calls to Member States and international organizations to include Indigenous Peoples actively in policymaking forums and development agendas. This inclusion should extend to negotiations and management forums under multilateral environment agreements and other relevant platforms and processes focusing on issues affecting Indigenous Peoples and where their voices and knowledge guarantee significant contributions and outcomes for global sustainable development and the health of global ecosystems.
Area of Work: Participation, Economic and Social Development, Climate Change
Addressee: International community
Paragraph Number: 138
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum calls for increased investments in educational programmes and capacity-building initiatives that empower Indigenous Peoples to navigate legal and bureaucratic processes in managing their resources in keeping with their cultural and spiritual values and self-determined development. These initiatives should support the transmission of Indigenous knowledge and skills across generations, enhancing resilience and sustainability.
Area of Work: Capacity Building, Autonomy and Self-determination, Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: International community
Paragraph Number: 139
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum encourages and commends the development and implementation of environmental monitoring systems led by Indigenous Peoples that utilize the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and modern technology to oversee and manage natural resources effectively. Such approaches that are aligned with Indigenous Peoples’ autonomy objectives provide valuable data for global environmental efforts.
Area of Work: Climate Change, Autonomy and Self-determination
Addressee: International community
Paragraph Number: 140
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum encourages collaborative research initiatives for innovative solutions to environmental challenges that engage Indigenous Peoples as equal partners, respecting and integrating Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems with so-called “Western” scientific research and fostering mutual learning and respect between Indigenous Peoples and the mainstream scientific community.
Area of Work: Climate Change, Participation, Traditional Knowledge
Addressee: International community
Paragraph Number: 141
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum supports the initiatives that empower Indigenous women, recognizing their roles as custodians of biodiversity and Indigenous knowledge. Programmes should address the specific needs and leadership roles of women within Indigenous Peoples’ communities in order to ensure equitable participation in all funded projects.
Area of Work: Indigenous Women, Participation
Addressee: Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Paragraph Number: 142
Session: 23 (2024)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the Paris Roadmap for Tracking of Funds, which sets out collaborative and coordinated action to address the systemic funding gaps for Indigenous Peoples. In this regard, the Forum reiterates the recommendation of its twenty-second session to Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to facilitate the tracking of funds in its statistical system by establishing relevant indicators, and invites the Development Assistance Committee to present on progress in this regard at the twenty-fourth session of the Forum in 2025.
Area of Work: Funding and Resources
