This Policy on Engagement with Indigenous Peoples aims to enhance IFAD’s development effectiveness in its engagement with indigenous peoples’ communities in rural areas. It sets out the principles of engagement IFAD will adhere to in its work with indigenous peoples, and the instruments, procedures and resources IFAD will deploy to implement them. The Policy is consistent with international standards, in particular the United Nations Development Group Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, and with IFAD’s mandate and Strategic Framework 2007-2010. It draws on IFAD’s thirty years of experience in working with indigenous peoples in rural areas of developing countries, and on the overall experience of indigenous peoples and other partners.
There are over 370 million indigenous people in some 70 countries worldwide. Most of them live in developing countries and are disproportionately represented among the poor. They account for an estimated 5 per cent of the world’s population, but 15 per cent of those people living in poverty. In many countries, particularly in Latin America and Asia, rural poverty is increasingly concentrated in indigenous and tribal communities.
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Publisher:
IFAD
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Publication
in English
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Keywords:
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, DISCRIMINATION, INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS, POVERTY, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, RURAL POVERTY, CULTURAL HERITAGE, GENDER EQUALITY, POLICY, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, BIODIVERSITY, LIVELIHOOD, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, RURAL AREAS, EMPOWERMENT
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Thematic Group:
IFAD
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International Fund for Agricultural Development
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Thesaurus:
08.03.01
- Special Groups
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