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Dialogues: dialogue with the United Nations agencies, funds and programmes
(item 5 (c))
41. The Permanent Forum heard from United Nations agencies, funds and
programmes on their activities to implement the system-wide action plan for ensuring
a coherent approach to achieving the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as the recommendations issued by the Forum.
The Forum appreciates the continued work to support the rights of Indigenous Peoples
including the outcome document of the meeting held in Rome in February 2024 of
the Forum, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the
Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the increa sed focus on
including Indigenous youth and financing for Indigenous Peoples.
42. The Permanent Forum urges United Nations entities to strengthen and facilitate
the engagement of Indigenous youth in decision-making processes across all United
Nations processes. Initiatives should focus on mentorship, capacity -building,
knowledge exchange and the creation of advisory roles specific to Indigenous youth
and Indigenous youth caucuses that facilitate active participation and leadership.
43. The Permanent Forum welcomes the 2023 Indigenous youth Rome Declaration
on Safeguarding Seven Generations in times of Food, Social, and Ecological Crisis
that resulted from the second session of the Global Indigenous Youth Forum
organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The Forum encourages FAO and the Global Indigenous Youth Forum to hold regional
consultations in all seven Indigenous regions before the third session of the Global
Indigenous Youth Forum in 2025.
44. The Permanent Forum urges the States members of the World Intellectual
Property Organization to ensure the full participation of Indigenous People, including
developing safeguards to protect their knowledge and adopting a treaty to protect
Indigenous Peoples’ genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge and
medicine, at the Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Associated
Traditional Knowledge to be held in 2024.
45. The Permanent Forum recommends that the World Bank strengthen platforms
for dialogue with Indigenous Peoples at all levels to create strategic opportunities that
will give a voice to Indigenous Peoples’ priorities and concerns. The Forum further
calls upon the World Bank to enhance and expand direct financing mechanisms for
Indigenous Peoples, specifically linking these to national programmes, policy
dialogue, and investments for sustainability in all ecosystems.
46. The Permanent Forum invites the Development Coordination Office to include
Forum members in its future meetings with resident coordinat ors for Indigenous
Peoples’ issues to be heard and to share experiences on the implementation of the
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the national level.
47. The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations system est ablish
regional inter-agency working groups on Indigenous Peoples’ issues in regions that
have not done so, in order to enable a coherent regional approach, similar to the
approach taken in Latin America.
48. The Permanent Forum thanks Finance in Common, a global network of public
development banks, for its invitation to the fourth Finance in Common Summit. The
Forum encourages the continuation of collaborative efforts to enhance support for the
rights of Indigenous Peoples.
49. The Permanent Forum calls upon the Global Environment Facility, the Green
Climate Fund, the new Global Biodiversity Framework Fund, the Forest Carbon
Partnership Facility Readiness Fund and the locally led Adaptation Fund, among
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