E/2024/43 E/C.19/2024/8 Dialogues: dialogue with the United Nations agencies, funds and programmes (item 5 (c)) 41. The Permanent Forum heard from United Nations agencies, funds and programmes on their activities to implement the system-wide action plan for ensuring a coherent approach to achieving the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as the recommendations issued by the Forum. The Forum appreciates the continued work to support the rights of Indigenous Peoples including the outcome document of the meeting held in Rome in February 2024 of the Forum, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the increa sed focus on including Indigenous youth and financing for Indigenous Peoples. 42. The Permanent Forum urges United Nations entities to strengthen and facilitate the engagement of Indigenous youth in decision-making processes across all United Nations processes. Initiatives should focus on mentorship, capacity -building, knowledge exchange and the creation of advisory roles specific to Indigenous youth and Indigenous youth caucuses that facilitate active participation and leadership. 43. The Permanent Forum welcomes the 2023 Indigenous youth Rome Declaration on Safeguarding Seven Generations in times of Food, Social, and Ecological Crisis that resulted from the second session of the Global Indigenous Youth Forum organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Forum encourages FAO and the Global Indigenous Youth Forum to hold regional consultations in all seven Indigenous regions before the third session of the Global Indigenous Youth Forum in 2025. 44. The Permanent Forum urges the States members of the World Intellectual Property Organization to ensure the full participation of Indigenous People, including developing safeguards to protect their knowledge and adopting a treaty to protect Indigenous Peoples’ genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge and medicine, at the Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge to be held in 2024. 45. The Permanent Forum recommends that the World Bank strengthen platforms for dialogue with Indigenous Peoples at all levels to create strategic opportunities that will give a voice to Indigenous Peoples’ priorities and concerns. The Forum further calls upon the World Bank to enhance and expand direct financing mechanisms for Indigenous Peoples, specifically linking these to national programmes, policy dialogue, and investments for sustainability in all ecosystems. 46. The Permanent Forum invites the Development Coordination Office to include Forum members in its future meetings with resident coordinat ors for Indigenous Peoples’ issues to be heard and to share experiences on the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the national level. 47. The Permanent Forum recommends that the United Nations system est ablish regional inter-agency working groups on Indigenous Peoples’ issues in regions that have not done so, in order to enable a coherent regional approach, similar to the approach taken in Latin America. 48. The Permanent Forum thanks Finance in Common, a global network of public development banks, for its invitation to the fourth Finance in Common Summit. The Forum encourages the continuation of collaborative efforts to enhance support for the rights of Indigenous Peoples. 49. The Permanent Forum calls upon the Global Environment Facility, the Green Climate Fund, the new Global Biodiversity Framework Fund, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Readiness Fund and the locally led Adaptation Fund, among 24-07820 11/28

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