Development with identity of indigenous peoples

Multilaterals

European Union
The Miner’s Canary: indigenous peoples and sustainable development in the commonwealth

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

• Beyond “participation”: indigenous peoples, biological diversity conservation and protected area management
• Indigenous peoples and communal tenures in Asia
• Recommendations
• World rainforest movement charter of the indigenous-tribal peoples of the tropical forests

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

• Best practices in intercultural health
• Community consultation, sustainable development and the Inter-American Development Bank
• Improving avenues towards post-secondary and higher education for indigenous people
• Strategies and procedures on socio-cultural issues as related to the environment
• Support of indigenous entrepreneurial development

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

• Gender and desertification
• Indigenous peoples call for more secure land rights
• Promotion of local knowledge and innovations – thematic evaluation
• Valuing diversity in sustainable development: IFAD experience with indigenous peoples in Latin America and Asia
• Women’s indigenous knowledge of livestock production
• Yemen: women’s technical knowledge on sheep operations

International Labor Organization (ILO)
The INDISCO programme

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

• Indigenous peoples and land rights
• Indigenous peoples’ participation in politics
• Intellectual property rights have moved to centre stage
• UN: indigenous government is a key aspect of development

Office of the United Nation High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Legal commentary on the concept of free, prior and informed consent

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• Copyright and unrestricted movement of cultural property
• Indigenous knowledge
• Univeral declaration on cultural diversity

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples (UNPFII)

• Engaging indigenous peoples in governance processes: international legal and policy framework for engagement
• International expert group meeting on the Millennium Development Goals, indigenous participation and good governance
• International workshop on indigenous traditional knowledge
• International workshop on methodologies regarding free, prior and informed consent and indigenous peoples

World Bank (WB)

• Culture and development
• Education
• Indigenous knowledge for development results
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Natural resource management

 

Bilaterals

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Sustainable development and knowledge exchange

The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)

• Example of Norad’s support for indigenous peoples
• The challenges ahead

 

Research institutes and foundations

Development Gateway (DG)

• Indigenous knowledge
• Natural resources and land
• Education and indigenous peoples
• Indigenous development

International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP)
Funding indigenous conservation

Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education (Tebtebba)

• Legal commentary on the concept of free, prior and informed consent
• Indigenous education
• Indigenous knowledge and indigenous culture
• Inter-governmental committee on intellectual property and genetic resources, tradtional knowledge and folklore
• Statement of indigenous peoples on free, prior and informed consent

The Rainforest Foundation
Indigenous knowledge

 

Partnerships and networks

International Environmental Network (IEN)

• Bio-ethics and bio-piracy
• Sacred sites
• Toxics and environmental health

 

Non-governmental organizations

Forest Peoples Programme
Report on a consultation with Bagyeli Pygmy communities impacted by the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project

International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests (IAITPTF)

• Expert meeting on traditional forest-related knowledge
• Intellectual property
• Land rights for out neighbors
• Territory

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