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Review report: joint review of IWGIA’s framework agreements with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Norad, including selected initiatives in Ethiopia, Kenya, Thailand and Cambodia

Expanding the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs: does it require additional financial resources?

Authors: A.B. Jørgensen; T. Arnegaard; M. Enghoff; The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)
Publisher: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation , 2009

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This report aims at assessing the present partnerships of International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and other activities within the existing framework agreements with Danida, Denmark and Norad, Norway. Furthermore, the report includes an assessment of internal organisational and capacity development, project implementation, networking as well as publication and information activities.

Most of the recommendations throughout the report are recommendations for expanding IWGIA’s good work. Yet, some of this would require additional resources. The report therefore recommends continuing the core funding to IWGIA from Norad and Danida. It also recommends that the framework agreement amounts are increased. The report, however, encourages other donors to consider granting IWGIA core funding. In addition, the report suggests that:

  • IWGIA utilises its experience from human rights work to further engage in climate change issues
  • particular emphasis on the possibilities to modify "reduced emission from deforestation and degradation" (REDD) initiatives in selected countries should be in place
  • IWGIA develops a strategy for enlarging its network in Africa to encompass more indigenous ethnic groups
  • IWGIA in Africa seeks to develop more structured ways of preparing and identifying the participants they support to take part in the regional and international processes
  • IWGIA works with its regional and local partners to develop clearer understandings of local expressions of gender, their relationship to international gender rights and where gender injustices exist and work towards their solution
  • IWGIA seriously discusses and assesses the issues related to out-stationing in the various regions
  • IWGIA undertakes a process of defining more clearly the outputs and attached delivery mechanisms that are central to the work of the staff of IWGIA
  • IWGIA utilises the service of an external process change consultant to provide input to an organisational development process.