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Addressee: WHO, FAO, the Inter‑agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues
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The Permanent Forum recommends that WHO and FAO, together with the Inter‑agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, promote dialogue forums at the national and regional levels between government ministries and indigenous peoples to establish culturally relevant strategies for addressing the epidemiological risks and the food and environmental crises resulting from the pandemic, as well as for addressing access to justice and the safeguarding of indigenous peoples’ territorial control.
Responses
IASG Task Group 2: Engagement with UNCT-Implementation of the System Wide Action Plan on Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The task group responds to the Call to Action on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Tasks include collecting good practices across the UN system and a series of thematic round table dialogues with Resident Coordinators to address guidance and action to advance support on indigenous peoples at the country level. Two of the four planned roundtables will be co-coordinated by WFP and partner UN agencies. UNFPA: (Co-Chair of Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples 2020-2021) Coordination of 3-part 2022 dialogue series with RCs to strengthen their knowledge on the rights of indigenous peoples and the role of the UN in supporting the realization of these rights at the country level. FAO: (specific recommendation indicated as ”ongoing") White Paper and Policy Brief "Build back better in a post-COVID-19 world: Reducing future wildlife-borne spill over of disease to humans”. Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific policy brief ‘COVID-19, Land, Natural Resources, Gender Issues and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Asia’ in collaboration with OHCHR. FAO Philippines Tele food COVID-19 response project on “Improvement of livelihoods of Indigenous Women through the Provision of Small Processing Tools, in the Ifugao province”. FAO Peru project “Guaranteeing Food and Nutrition Security and Improving the Livelihoods Resilience of Indigenous Peoples of the Peruvian Amazon affected by COVID-19". Virtual Parliamentary Dialogues: Food Security and Nutrition in the time of COVID-19 with FAO and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). FAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery Umbrella Programme Note: Risk communication and community engagement: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. White Paper and Policy Brief "Build back better in a post-COVID-19 world: Reducing future wildlife.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 20 (2021)
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