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Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Department for International Law and Human Rights F2 reference: 2016-22073 Grant Committee Meeting 25 October 2016 Agenda Item no.: 5 1. Title: Framework Contribution to the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs - IWGIA 2. Partners: IWGIA 3. Amount: 50 million DKK 4. Duration: 2017-2019, 36 months 5. Presentation to the Programme Committee: 18 August 2016 6. Previous Grants: 2014-2016, 36 months 60 mill. DKK 2011-2013, 36 months 47 mill. DKK 2008-2010, 36 months 45 mill. DKK 7. Strategies and policy priorities: Right to a Better Life (2012) and the draft Development and Humanitarian Strategy (2016) 8. Guidelines: Guidelines for Programs or Projects above DKK 37 mill. 9. Danish National Budget account code: §06.32.08.70 Democracy and Human Rights 10. Desk officer: Jane Werngreen Rosales 11. Reviewed by Financial Officer: Jan Hindhede Justsen 12. Head of Department: Mette Nørgaard Dissing-Spandet 13. Summary: The Framework contribution will provide funding to IWGIA’s work strengthening indigenous peoples’ own organisations and representatives with the aim of empowering indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous women, and their communities. It will contribute to evidence-based advocacy for indigenous peoples’ rights at international, regional, national and local levels. Furthermore, the contribution will support IWGIAs important documentation work. 1 1. INTRODUCTION The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)1 is an international human rights organization based in Copenhagen. With nearly 50 years of existence, IWGIA has acquired the reputation as being the global expert organisation on indigenous issues. IWGIA uses a human rights- based approach to document the situation of indigenous peoples (IPs), support their right to self- determination and strengthen their rights by creating horizontal (south-south) and vertical (global to local level) linkages. IWGIA has been a strategic partner of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) since 1989. Currently, this collaboration includes earmarked support to specific projects and a framework contribution which expires in 2016. In addition to funding from the Danish MFA, IWGIA receives funding from a range of other sources including EU, IFAD and Norad. In 2016, IWGIA has received approximately 48% of its income from other sources than the Danida framework budget, and in 2017, this percentage is expected to increase to 57%, as a result of intensified and strategic international fundraising.2 A recent MFA review acknowledged IWGIA’s capacity to implement framework programs but also recommended IWGIA to sharpen its focus and reduce its number of engagements. These recommendations are reflected in this program document. The review recommended the development of a Theory of Change and a clearer results framework. IWGIA is in the process of following up on these recommendations, including improving the results framework. IWGIA has also finalized its fundraising strategy. 2. CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND The promotion of indigenous peoples’ rights has historically been a key issue for Denmark’s development and foreign policy and remains a high priority for Denmark in close collaboration with Greenland. Support to civil society is a cornerstone in supporting peaceful and democratic societies; and an important part of Denmark’s development cooperation is targeted civil society for this reason. Denmark wishes to contribute to the development of a strong, independent, vocal and diverse civil society as well as representative, accountable and locally based civil society as a prerequisite for long- term poverty reduction and respect and protection of human rights. The support for IWGIA and its partners is important to ensure inclusion of indigenous peoples’ civil society organizations in this support. IWGIA has direct access to a broad network of indigenous peoples (IPs) and enjoys the trust of IPs, their representatives and organizations. The collaboration with IWGIA is highly relevant as IWGIA provides expert and updated knowledge on the status of the realization of IPs’ rights on the ground and on best practices on how to promote and advance their rights at local, national, regional and international levels. The collaboration with IWGIA provides the MFA with a credible and legitimate foundation for the normative work with human rights of indigenous peoples. There has been a tendency to regard indigenous rights as a “marginal” issue in the broader development discourse. But, while the world’s 370 million IPs represent only 5% of the global population, they constitute 15% of the world’s poor and nearly 1/3 of the world’s extremely poor3. International human rights reports and statistics continue documenting on how indigenous peoples suffer disproportionately compared to nonindigenous peoples. Most indigenous peoples in the world continue to face systemic discrimination and exclusion from political and economic power; they 1 Please refer to list of acronyms on page 16 2 Please refer to the overall IWGIA budget for 2017 enclosed in Annex 3 3 http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/indigenouspeoples/overview 2 continue to be over-represented among the poorest, the illiterate, the destitute; they are displaced by armed conflicts and environmental disasters; indigenous peoples are dispossessed of their ancestral lands and deprived of their resources for survival, both physical and cultural. This leaves them at further risk of being subject to serious human rights abuses. Furthermore, IPs are increasingly facing other challenges, including being particularly exposed to the adverse effects of climate change, as they are often living in fragile environments. Due to their marginalization, they can also be negatively affected by climate change actions by States. Ensuring respect for indigenous peoples´ individual and collective human rights is thus key for the implementation of the Paris Agreement and for fulfilling the imperative of leaving no-one behind in the new Sustainable Development Agenda. The past 30 years have seen remarkable progress in the recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights (IPRs) at the international level. This progress, however, is seldom reflected in the situation of indigenous peoples at national and local levels and the reality around the world is that serious violations of indigenous peoples’ rights continue unabated and there exists an important implementation gap. There is therefore an urgent need to turn the commitments agreed by States at the international level into concrete and targeted actions that can result in real changes for IPs on the ground. 3. PROGRAM OBJECTIVE Within the overarching objective of IWGIA to support and facilitate that indigenous peoples are empowered so they can promote and exercise their human rights as enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the objective of this Framework Program is to: Support and promote indigenous peoples’ right to self-determined sustainable development The framework program consists of a cluster of development engagements all contributing to the fulfilment of the program objective, as described below in section 5. 4. THEORY OF CHANGE IWGIA’s updated Theory of Change (ToC) has been developed in July 2016 with the assistance from INTRAC4 and is based on IWGIA values, policies and priorities, as well as context analyses, strategic reviews and evaluations of previous efforts. The ToC is considered a living ToC which is still work-in- progress and will be further developed at all program levels. IWGIA’s ToC: “Our agreed long term vision is: “All Indigenous Peoples fully enjoy their individual and collective rights. They participate in and are consulted on decisions that affect their lives. They practice and develop their cultures based on their own priorities and visions”. For our different target groups, this vision of success requires change in a number of different areas. For indigenous youth, change is particularly needed in relation to education, livelihood (employment and/or maintaining subsistence life), autonomy and freedom, respect and non-discrimination/voice, security and social protection, connectivity to culture, continuity of community and ability to contribute, equal opportunities for all, and access to information. For rural indigenous men and women, change is particularly needed in relation to full access to and control over land, full control over decisions affecting their lives, security and social protection, economic opportunities and social infrastructure on their own terms for continuing and developing their livelihoods, access to justice, and respect and recognition from mainstream society. 4 INTRAC is a UK based not-for-profit organization and independent registered charity 3 For indigenous girls and women, change is particularly needed in relation to enjoyment of all of their individual human rights, full recognition as members of their own communities as well as mainstream society, equal access to decision making, education, health and economic resources, protection from harmful practices, and recognition of their critical role as change drivers in enhancing indigenous culture and knowledge. Our own role and contributions to these identified changes: We believe that IWGIA as the organization we are can contribute to these long term changes through offering: The ability to and experience from work in all main geographic regions, utilizing our unique global approach, network and knowledge base; International recognition