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(b) Seeking means, in consultation with indigenous people, of giving
indigenous people greater responsibility for their own affairs and an effective voice
in decisions on matters that affect them;
(c) Establishing national committees or other mechanisms involving
indigenous people to ensure that the objectives and activities of the Decade are
planned and implemented on the basis of full partnership with indigenous people;
(d) Contributing to the United Nations Trust Fund for the International
Decade of the World’s Indigenous People;
(e) Contributing, together with other donors, to the United Nations Voluntary
Fund for Indigenous Populations in order to assist indigenous representatives in
participating in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Working Group on
Indigenous Populations of the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of
Human Rights and the open-ended intersessional working group of the Commission
on Human Rights charged with elaborating a draft declaration on the rights of
indigenous people;
(f) Considering contributing, as appropriate, to the Fund for the Development of
Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, in support of the goals of the
Decade;
(g) Identifying resources for activities designed to implement the goals of
the Decade, in cooperation with indigenous people and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations;
8.
Invites United Nations financial and development institutions,
operational programmes and the specialized agencies and secretariats, as well as
other regional and international organizations, in accordance with the existing
procedures of their governing bodies:
(a) To give increased priority and resources to improving the conditions
indigenous people, with particular emphasis on the needs of those people
developing countries, inter alia, through the preparation of specific programmes
action for the implementation of the goals of the Decade, within their areas
competence;
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(b) To launch special projects, through appropriate channels and in
cooperation with indigenous people, to strengthen their community-level initiatives
and to facilitate the exchange of information and expertise among indigenous people
and other relevant experts;
(c) To designate focal points for the coordination of activities related to the
Decade with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;
and commends those institutions, programmes, agencies and regional and international
organizations that have already done so;
9.
Appeals to all Governments and organizations to consider contributing to
the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, if possible with a
substantial increase in the level of contributions;
10. Recommends that the Secretary-General ensure coordinated follow-up to
the recommendations concerning indigenous people of all relevant United Nations
conferences;
11. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
submit, through the Secretary-General, a report on the implementation of the
programme of activities for the Decade to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth
session;
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