strategy
Consulting with indigenous peoples in sustainable development programmes
Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.Agenda 21 recommends developing or strengthening national arrangements to consult with indigenous people and their communities with a view to reflecting their needs and incorporating their values and traditional and other knowledge and practices into national policies and programmes in the field of natural resource management and conservation and in other development programmes affecting them.
Broader:
Consulting the publicStrengthening role of indigenous communities for sustainable development Facilitates:
Applying culture-based knowledge systemsIntegrating indigenous knowledge on natural resources Subjects:
Society → PeoplesSociety → Minority, indigenous groups
Information → Expertise
Development → Sustainable development
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
