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The common country assessment/United Nations Development Assistance Framework, poverty reduction strategy papers and other development processes, national or international, should ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples, including indigenous women
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The Common Country Assessment in Ecuador in 2002 highlighted the need to reduce inequalities and exclusion, and the UN Development Assistance Framework incorporates in its strategies and actions an intercultural and gender perspective aimed at reducing inequalities. In order to implement the incorporation of an intercultural perspective in UNDAF programming, the UN country team organized an intercultural theme group within the inter-agency working group. The Intercultural theme group conducted a mapping exercise on the situation of indigenous peoples and Afro-Ecuadorians and of existing organizations, which highlighted the gap between the indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian peoples and the rest of the population. The information was compiled with the participation of indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian leaders invited by the UN system to contribute to the drafting of the report. The group also produced a policy document for the UN system on intercultural matters. Please see E/C.19/2006/Add.7 for more details.
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SPFII: The Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (SPFII) commissioned a desk review of common country assessments/United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks (CCA/UNDAF) in 10 countries in order to determine whether and how indigenous peoples had been included. The most recent revisisions of the CCA/UNDAF guidelines in 2004 included indigenous issues. The main observations from the desk review included:
(a) In countries with some positive policies towards indigenous peoples, UN country teams had been able to include indigenous peoples, analyze their situations and identify their key development issues with relative ease. On the other hand, in the absence of such national policies, inclusion with similar vigour of indigenous peoples and their issues was not possible;
(b) The involvement of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights during the preparation of CCA/UNDAFs had proved to be effective in terms of inclusion of indigenous peoples and adoption of a human rights based development approach;
(c) The issue of participation of indigenous peoples had not been highlighted, even in those CCA/UNDAFs that had been prepared after the issuance of the 2004 CCA/UNDAF Guidelines. Participation of indigenous peoples should begin in the preparatory processes of CCA/UNDAFs;
(d) Non-availability of ethnically disaggregated data still remained one of the biggest impediments to inclusion of indigenous peoples in CCA/UNDAFs and country probrams which needs immediate attention; (e) In the analysis of situations of indigenous peoples, as assessment of their capacities to participate in program formulation and implementation as well as to caim their own rights was missing. Please see Not by the Secretariat, E/C.19/2006/8, for more details.
ILO: ILO conducted an ethnic audit of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) from 14 countries. Amongst the main findings of the study were the significant regional differences in the visibility of indigenous and tribal issues in PRSPs. While in Africa the debate is still at an incipient stage; in Latin America indigenous poverty and underpinning causes are addressed and identified in the PRSPs, although implementation may be lagging behind. In Asia, concern for the unequal development of indigenous and tribal peoples swings from genuine concern to total neglect. Only two of the fourteen PRSPs successfully mainstreamed indigenous and tribal issues. There is lack of reliable, accurate and up-to-date statistics disaggregated by ethnic origin and only a few PRSPs examined the gendered dimensions and dynamics of indigenous and tribal impoverishment. Even with targeted action, structural causes of indigenous poverty are not necessarily addressed. Please see ILO's report to the fifth session, E/C.19/2006/6, for more details.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 4 (2005)
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