Issues

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Issues

• Respect for, preservation and maintain of
  traditional knowledge, innovations and practices
• Promotion of wider application
• Equitable sharing of associated benefits
• Customary use
• Exchange of information
• Cooperation for the development and use of
  indigenous and traditional technologies

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Guidance from the COP

• Development of national legislation and
  strategies for the implementation of Article 8(j)
• Full and effective participation of indigenous
  and local communities
• Conservation and maintenance of cultural
  identities and the material base that sustains
  them
• Guidance to the financial mechanism
• Request to financial institutions

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Examples of Bilateral Agencies

• Agencia Española para la Cooperación
  Internacional (AECI) Spanish strategy for
  cooperation with indigenous peoples (1997),
  Indigenous Program
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
  partnership with indigenous peoples organizations

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Examples of Regional Banks

• Asian Development Bank Policy on Indigenous
  Peoples (1998)
• Inter-American Development Bank The Fund for the
  Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin
  America and the Caribbean (1992) Indigenous
  Peoples and Community Development Unit (1994)
  more than 250 projects has funded since 1979 that
  benefit or otherwise impact indigenous
  communities

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Examples of Multilateral Institutions

• World Bank OD 4.20 OP/BP 4.10
• UNDP Indigenous Knowledge Programme and Parters
  in Development Programme, Capacity 21, Regional
  Programmes, Nationally Executed Programmes and
  Projects

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Sources of funding

• http//www.biodiv.org/financial/sources.asp

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Topics for discussions

• Message from the Convention to funding
  institutions and development agencies
• What additional GEF could pursue
• Sharing of funding information
• Innovative ways of financing