| ID: | 38788 |
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| Title: | Rome - Indigenous Peoples' Forum - February 2015 |
| Description: |
The Forum held its second global meeting on 12-13 February 2015 at IFAD headquarters in Rome. It was attended by about 40 representatives from indigenous peoples’ organizations and institutions from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. The meeting was inspired by recent and ongoing developments, in particular the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (WCIP), and the efforts to define a new set of Sustainable Development Goals, to be adopted in 2015. The Indigenous Peoples’ Forum was established at IFAD in 2011 and was a milestone in the Fund’s 35 years of engagement with indigenous peoples. The Forum provides a voice for the approximately 370 million indigenous people around the world, who are disproportionately represented among poor and marginalized populations. It is also a direct response to requests by indigenous peoples for a more systematic dialogue with United Nations agencies. Through its continuous engagement, IFAD has become an important partner for indigenous peoples. The Forum builds on the IFAD Policy on Engagement with Indigenous Peoples, approved by the IFAD Executive Board in 2009, which in turn was informed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007. The Forum also reflects IFAD’s long experience in empowering poor rural communities and its participatory approach to grass-roots rural development. The first global meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum took place in February 2013. The Forum called upon IFAD to acknowledge and value indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge, technologies and environmental services in conservation and sustainable use of their ecosystems; document and share good practices with regard to indigenous peoples’ self-determined sustainable development; and support effective dialogue on the inclusion of indigenous peoples’ needs and priorities in country strategies and IFAD-supported projects. |
| Size: | 879.41 KB; 5760 x 3240 pixels; 488 x 274 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1524 x 857 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | GANGA/Francesco Cabras, Alberto Molinari |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/ GANGA/ Francesco Cabras, Alberto Molinari |
| Categories: | none |
| URL: | www.ifad.org |
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