Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - Report on the twenty-first session

54. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Department of Economic and Social   Affairs, in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for  Human Rights (OHCHR), facilitate a series of online regional meetings in 2023 to  discuss the development of standards and redress mechanisms for conservation  programmes that affect indigenous peoples’ lands, territories and waters. The  dialogue should include the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the  rights of indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum, indigenous peoples’ representatives, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and other  stakeholders. The Permanent Forum would welcome a presentation of the outcomes  of such a meeting at its twenty-third session, to be held in 2024.

60. The Permanent Forum urges the Government of Kenya to implement the  recommendations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the  rights of Endorois to the ownership of their ancestral lands, to the restitution thereof  and to compensation in that connection.

61. The Permanent Forum calls upon the Government of the United Republic of  Tanzania to immediately cease efforts to evict the Maasai people from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area

72. The Permanent Forum takes note of the sixth call for proposals of the Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility of IFAD, which is focused on advancing indigenous peoples’ biodiversity conservation and sustainable management for adaptation and resilience to climate change. The Permanent Forum urges IFAD to facilitate direct access to climate financing to indigenous peoples’ communities and organizations through the Facility and the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme, and encourages Governments and donors to support those initiatives.

87. Ensuring a human rights-based approach to indigenous peoples’ rights to land, waters, territories and resources, governance and secure customary tenure is essential for their continued contribution and significant role in achieving the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Indigenous lands, waters and territories need to be recognized directly and as a category separate from “protected areas” or “other E/2022/43 E/C.19/2022/11 22-07676 17/27 effective area-based conservation measures”, including when recognizing the land rights of indigenous women. A core element of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework should be the development of indicators reflecting indigenous peoples’ rights to facilitate monitoring and implementation. There is an urgent and continuing need for resource mobilization for indigenous peoples, including for indigenous women, to ensure their participation in shaping and implementing the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. In this regard, the Permanent Forum acknowledges the recommendation to organize an expert meeting to develop and study the options and mechanisms for direct access to funding, to be transmitted to the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Furthermore, the Permanent Forum supports the continuation of the work of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Inter-sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions of that Convention and urges States parties thereto to ensure adequate support to provide for a robust work programme.