Issues Respect for, preservation and maintain of traditional knowledge, innovations and practices Promotion of wider application Equitable sharing of associated benefits Customary use Exchange of information Cooperation for the development and use of indigenous and traditional technologies

Guidance from the COP Development of national legislation and strategies for the implementation of Article 8(j) Full and effective participation of indigenous and local communities Conservation and maintenance of cultural identities and the material base that sustains them Guidance to the financial mechanism Request to financial institutions

Examples of Bilateral Agencies Agencia Española para la Cooperación Internacional (AECI): Spanish strategy for cooperation with indigenous peoples (1997), Indigenous Program Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): partnership with indigenous peoples’ organizations

Examples of Regional Banks Asian Development Bank: Policy on Indigenous Peoples (1998) Inter-American Development Bank: The Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean (1992); Indigenous Peoples and Community Development Unit (1994); more than 250 projects has funded since 1979 that benefit or otherwise impact indigenous communities

Examples of Multilateral Institutions World Bank: OD 4.20; OP/BP 4.10 UNDP: Indigenous Knowledge Programme and Parters in Development Programme, Capacity 21, Regional Programmes, Nationally Executed Programmes and Projects

Sources of funding http://www.biodiv.org/financial/sources.asp

Topics for discussions Message from the Convention to funding institutions and development agencies What additional GEF could pursue Sharing of funding information Innovative ways of financing