Abstract:

In 2009, the Executive Board adopted the Policy on Engagement with Indigenous Peoples with the objective of enhancing IFAD’s development effectiveness in its engagement with Indigenous Peoples. Following more than a decade of implementation of the policy and in light of the experience and lessons learned on the ground, IFAD committed to updating it in the Report of the Consultation on the Twelfth Replenishment of IFAD’s Resources (IFAD12). The updated policy calls for a paradigm shift whereby IFAD now works with Indigenous Peoples as equal partners who contribute to co-creating strategies and who design and monitor investments to improve their livelihoods based on their own perspectives. The Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD is proposed as the entry point for engagement with Indigenous Peoples at all levels, and the Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility as the instrument to work directly with Indigenous Peoples’ communities and their organizations, complementing IFAD’s loan and grants investments