The 15th session’s recommendations reflect a follow-up to the commitments made in the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples’ Outcome Document, where Member States committed themselves to giving due consideration to all the rights of indigenous peoples in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda (paragraph 37) and in general, to working with indigenous peoples to disaggregate data, as appropriate, or conduct surveys and to utilizing holistic indicators of indigenous peoples’ well-being to address the situation and needs of indigenous peoples and individuals, in particular older persons, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities (paragraph 10).
To follow-up on the recommendations, the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (Division for Inclusive Social Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs) organized an “Expert Group Meeting on Indigenous Peoples and the 2030 Agenda” in October 2015. At the meeting, experts proposed concrete indicators for indigenous peoples’ priorities and suggested ways forward to ensure indigenous priorities are reflected in review and follow-up to the 2030 Agenda. The report from the discussions at the Expert Group Meeting was issued at the 15th Session 9-20 May 2016, and is available here.
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