E/2005/43 E/C.19/2005/9 campaigns should include several elements including school-based outreach, national conferences, local workshops, media activities, including phone-in radio programmes and televised debates, essay and expression contests and service days. 99. The United Nations Children’s Fund should initiate country-specific situation analyses of indigenous youth and children through field offices in countries with indigenous communities and transmit such situation analyses to the Forum. States 100. Youth employment poverty-reduction strategies of States and the intergovernmental system should especially focus on indigenous youth, women and men, who are among the most marginalized within the current economic system. Addressing the needs of indigenous youth will also help to achieve Millennium Development Goal 3 and address pressures and problems arising from mass rural-tourban migration. 101. Governments should support training in sustainable consumption towards a sustainable lifestyle and follow up initiatives, including networks and small grants. 102. Special emphasis should be placed by States on the involvement of city and local government authorities in engaging and supporting young indigenous people to achieve the Millennium Development Goals at the local level. Priorities for local authorities should include the creation of local youth councils with the participation of indigenous youth in decision-making, the provision of meeting spaces for young people to gather and coordinate projects, develop youth leadership, support for youth artistic and cultural expression, promotion of sport for development and peace and access to information and communication technologies. Indigenous peoples organizations 103. The Forum, recalling its recommendation at its second session3 regarding an art competition among indigenous children for a logo/visual identifier for the Forum, decides to renew for another year its call for the submission of artwork by indigenous children, and calls for as wide a dissemination of information on the competition as possible so that the artwork can be received in time for the Forum’s selection at the fifth session. 104. The Forum urges States and United Nations agencies to support the attendance and participation of indigenous youth at future sessions of the Permanent Forum. 105. The Forum urges the members of the advisory council for the Voluntary Fund for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People to allocate funds to indigenous youth-initiated projects and activities. (b) Indigenous women 106. The Forum emphasizes the unique contributions made by indigenous women within their families, communities and nations and at the international level in terms of possessing and transmitting intergenerationally a wealth of traditional knowledge on the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable environment management. __________________ 3 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 23 (E/2003/43E/C.19/2003/22), para. 18. 17

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