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of child mortality; and (c) to discuss criteria on how indigenous peoples should be
addressed in the census process.
111. The Permanent Forum urges African States to integrate indigenous traditional
institutions into the processes of democratization and to bring them in line with
human rights standards.
112. The Permanent Forum urges the international community to pay particular
attention to the situation of the Batwa peoples, in particular Batwa women, and to
support the inclusion of the San people and other indigenous groups in the national
census. The Permanent Forum urges African States and their international
development partners to review the poverty reduction strategy papers and other
frameworks for integrating the specificities of such indigenous peoples as the
Batwa, Pygmies, Touaregue, Amazigh, Khoisan and other hunter-gatherers or
nomadic peoples in their countries, both in Central and in Southern Africa.
113. The Permanent Forum urges the international financial institutions to conduct
social and environmental impact assessments for their projects in certain countries
in Central Africa before undertaking/funding any projects.
114. The Permanent Forum recommends that the African Commission on Human
and Peoples’ Rights work together with the Permanent Forum to engage African
States in a dialogue with indigenous peoples.
115. The Permanent Forum recommends that Governments, indigenous
organizations, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and bilateral
donors work together to collect disaggregated data on Africa’s indigenous peoples
and their poverty situation and to report thereon to the Permanent Forum at its sixth
session. The World Bank made a commitment at the Conference on Poverty
Reduction and Indigenous Peoples (New York, 9 and 10 May 2006) to further
collaborate with the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues in collecting
disaggregated data.
116. The Permanent Forum recommends that the organizations and bodies of the
United Nations system and Member States organize a regional consultation with
indigenous organizations and interested donors to develop a more coordinated,
sustainable and longer-term programme in the region which has as its principal
objective the strengthening of indigenous organizations so as to ensure that they
have the technical capacity to engage with Governments and the international
community on human rights.
117. The Permanent Forum urges the organizations and bodies of the United
Nations system to focus and coordinate their strategies and programmes in order to
deal with the problems faced by indigenous peoples in Africa relevant to the
mandate of the Permanent Forum on such issues as economic and social
development, education, health, human rights, culture and the environment.
118. The Permanent Forum reinforces its institutional relationship with the Human
Rights Council on all matters relevant to their mandates.
119. The Permanent Forum urges African Governments to take into account
standing reports on the retention of traditional knowledge developed by indigenous
peoples and government representatives during the Convention on Biological
Diversity process.
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