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Development and the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues,
consult indigenous youth-led organizations in order to include issues pertaining to
indigenous youth in their work at the local, national, regional and global levels.
57. The Permanent Forum calls upon the Economic and Social Council, including
its youth forum, the high-level political forum on sustainable development, the
Commission on the Status of Women and the Commission for Social Development,
as well as other relevant United Nations forums, to include representatives of
indigenous youth-led organizations in their meetings.
58. The Permanent Forum recommends that States provide financial support to the
United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples to facilitat e the participation
of indigenous youth in key United Nations meetings and processes most relevant to
indigenous issues.
59. The Permanent Forum notes the organization of preparatory meetings for
indigenous youth for its sixteenth session, including the G lobal Indigenous Youth
Caucus meeting hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO). The Forum recommends that this practice be scaled up in 2018, with
representative participation of indigenous youth through indigenous people s’
organizations from all regions, and invites FAO to report on progress achieved to
the Forum at its seventeenth session.
60. The Permanent Forum notes the initiative of the Pan American Health
Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) to develop a new health
plan for indigenous youth in Latin America and invites PAHO/WHO to report on
progress achieved in implementing the plan to the For um at its seventeenth session.
Dialogues with indigenous peoples, Member States and the funds, programmes
and specialized agencies of the United Nations system
61. The Permanent Forum conducted three focused, interactive dialogue sessions
with indigenous peoples, Member States and the funds, programmes and specialized
agencies of the United Nations system. The Forum welcomes such dialogues as an
opportunity to better understand the concerns of indigenous peoples and Member
States and the mandate of the funds, programmes and specialized agencies. Such
dialogues also provide an opportunity to focus on specific issue s and identify ways
to increase the effectiveness of the work of the Forum.
Dialogue with indigenous peoples
62. The dialogue with indigenous peoples included discussions on a number of
topics, including the assessment of the implementation of the Unite d Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People on its tenth anniversary; the
follow-up to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, in particular the
development and implementation of national action plans and the establishment of
guidelines for free, prior and informed consent; and the need for effective
engagement of indigenous peoples in the 2030 Agenda.
Dialogue with Member States
63. The expert members of the Permanent Forum continued the practice of having
an interactive dialogue with Member States in a closed meeting.
64. There were nine items listed for discussion, grouped under two headings. The
first heading was “follow-up to the outcome document of the World Conference on
Indigenous Peoples”. It included the following five items: (a) forms of cooperation
and partnership at the State level; (b) status of indigenous peoples; (c) national
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