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accessible to indigenous young people. The Forum also recommends incorporating
more indigenous knowledge into universities, in consultation with the indigenous
owners of the knowledge, with the design of online course content that addresses
specific local and national indigenous issues in different countries, and increasing the
participation and voices of indigenous peoples in online courses.
69. The Permanent Forum welcomes the establishment and development of
indigenous-led funds as a self-governance practice, which promote funding access to
indigenous communities and shift power relations in donor and philanthro py
processes. The Forum invites the broad donor and philanthropic community to
support these initiatives.
Dialogues: dialogue with United Nations agencies, funds and programmes
(item 5 (c))
70. The Permanent Forum welcomes the endorsement by the United Nations System
Chief Executives Board for Coordination in November 2020 of a call to action to
revitalize the system-wide action plan on the rights of indigenous peoples, as set out
in the report entitled “Building an inclusive, sustainable and resilient future with
indigenous peoples: a call to action”. In the report, the Chief Executives Board called
for ensuring the more systematic participation of indigenous peoples in United
Nations country processes, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development
Cooperation Frameworks, and in the implementation of socioeconomic response and
recovery plans and the Goals.
71. The Permanent Forum notes the progress made in including indigenous peoples
in several of the newly developed United Nations Sustainable Deve lopment
Cooperation Frameworks developed in 2020 and the COVID -19 socioeconomic
response plans. However, the Forum also notes the uneven inclusion of indigenous
peoples in United Nations country programming consultations and development, and
the lack of disaggregated data, which perpetuates their invisibility. The Forum
reiterates that indigenous peoples should participate in the preparation of common
country assessments as well as the Sustainable Development Cooperation
Frameworks and that United Nations country teams should work with Governments
to foster effective consultation with indigenous peoples.
72. The Permanent Forum recalls that, more than 10 years ago, the International
Fund for Agricultural Development established an indigenous forum, which the
Forum has repeatedly recognized as a good practice and recommended that other
United Nations entities should follow. However, despite these recommendations,
other entities have not done so, with the notable exception of the Local Communities
and Indigenous Peoples Platform of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change. The Forum reiterates its recommendation that United Nations
entities should incorporate indigenous-driven platforms in order to give advice on and
promote indigenous peoples’ issues and should consider the participation of the
Permanent Forum together with indigenous peoples in such platforms.
73. In the absence of in-person sessions of the Permanent Forum for two years, the
Forum expresses its appreciation of the online dialog ues held with United Nations
funds, programmes and specialized agencies and welcomes the continuation of this
good practice in the coming years, beyond the effects of the pandemic. The Permanent
Forum expresses its appreciation to the secretariat of the Fo rum for facilitating these
dialogues and invites the secretariat to continue to do so.
74. The Permanent Forum recognizes that as the global economy promises to “build
back better” from the economic crisis caused by the COVID -19 pandemic, it is
imperative that international financial institutions, including the World Bank, work in
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