ANNEXES

Annex I
List of Participants

1. Mr. Darin Bishop, Maori Statistics Unit, Statistics New Zealand

2. Ms. Andrea Carmen, Executive Director
   International Indian Treaty Council, U.S.A.

3. Dr. Valerie Gideon, Director of First Nations Health
   Assembly of First Nations, Canada

4. Mr. Tom B.K. Goldtooth, National Director, Indigenous Environmental Network, U.S.A.

5. Mr. Eric Guimond, Research Manager, Strategic Research, Treaty and
   Government Affairs, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

6. Mr. Wilton Littlechild, Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for North America, Erminesken Cree Nation, Hobbema, Alberta

7. Ms. Katherine Minich, Banting Institute, University of Toronto and Inuit Circumpolar Conference Representative

8. Dr. Vyacheslav Shadrin, Institute of North Indigenous Peoples, Russian Federation Republic Sakha (Yakutia) and RAIPON representative

9. Dr. John Taylor, Senior Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australia

10. Mr. Daniel Takutaimoana, TE KANAWA, Chief Executive, Tuhono Trust,
    Administering the Tuhono Maori Affiliation Service

Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

11. Ms. Elissavet Stamatopoulou, Chief, Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on
    Indigenous Issues, Division for Social Policy and Development, United Nations
    Department for Economic and Social Affairs

12. Mr. Sushil Raj, Associate Expert, Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Division for Social Policy and Development, United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs

Annex II
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND INDICATORS OF WELL-BEING

Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, Ottawa

Agenda

Wednesday, 22 March 2006

9 – 9:30           Welcome and statements by:

Ms. Elissavet Stamatopoulou, Chief, SPFII/DSPD/UNDESA

Mr. Wilton Littlechild, Member, UNPFII

Mr. Eric Guimond, Research Manager, INA, Canada

Nomination of Chair and Rapporteur of the workshop

9:30 – 10:15    Identify core themes/issues relevant for discussion and formulation of indicators

Possible themes/issues:

• Ownership of lands, territories and resources
• Maintenance of cultural practices, sacred sites and biological diversity
• Traditional knowledge and indigenous governance/management systems
• Inclusion in political participation and decision-making
• Bilingual and mother tongue education

10:30 – 11:45 Continued discussion on core themes/issues

2:00 – 3:15 List and discuss indicators that have already been developed for these issues and the relevance of these existing indicators:

• Brief presentation by each expert of their work on indicators

• Discussion on gaps in existing indicators that impact indigenous peoples

  • What and where are the gaps in current global, regional, and national indicator frameworks?
  • What issues that are important to indigenous peoples are not assessed within existing indicator structures?

  • MDG framework, CSD framework, Human Development Index, and others

• What is being measured?

  • Quality of data sources/is data disaggregated?
  • Relevance of existing criteria for indigenous indicator development: valid and meaningful, sensitive and specific to underlying phenomena, grounded in research, allowing international comparison, linkage with policy and emerging issues
  • Quantitative issues: Does measurement capture the situation of indigenous peoples adequately? How can the intangibles be measured?
  • Qualitative issues: Structural and process indicators

3:30 – 4:00 Discussion continued

4:00 – 6:00 Proposals for recommendations on core indicators that would be relevant for the core issues identified

• Identify the appropriate data sources for the indicators which could include: National statistics offices and census data, researchers, NGOs, indigenous peoples collecting their own information

Thursday, 23 March 2006

9:00 – 10:15 Discussion on draft recommendations and conclusions of the meeting

10:30 – 11:45 Adoption of recommendations and conclusions of the meeting

Annex III
Framework and Summary of Key Issues for the Development of Cultural Indicators for Food Security, Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Development in Preparation for the 2^nd Global Consultation on the Right to Food and Food Security for Indigenous Peoples ³

³ Submitted by International Indian Treaty Council 5) Preservation and continued use of language, songs, stories and ceremonies, traditional names for foods and processes (planting, hunting, gathering, harvesting, preparation, etc.), rates of increase or decrease, and factors affecting/impacting these practices.

Based on the previous survey and other subsequent discussions, there are several categories for which development of measurable benchmarks or indicators may be possible. These include:

1. Access to and integrity of traditional lands, waters and habitat used for food production, harvesting and/or gathering (including forests, fisheries, farmland, pasture and grazing lands, and waters);

2. Abundance, scarcity and/or threats to traditional seeds, plant medicines, and food animals;

3. Decrease or increase of consumption and preparation of traditional plant and animal foods and medicines, including in ceremonial/cultural use as well as daily household use; extent or percent of traditional foods still used as compared to introduced foods and seeds (including GMO's and other new varieties) and measurement of changes (increases or decreases) over time;

4. Extent of continued practice or use of ceremonies, dances, prayers, songs and other oral traditions related to the use of traditional foods and subsistence practices;

5. Integrity of and access to sacred sites for ceremonial purposes related to use of traditional food sources

6. Rate of rural-to-urban migration and possible return-migration patterns; relationship to continued use of traditional foods

7. Number and effectiveness of consultations for planning, implementation and evaluation, applying the principle of Free, Prior Informed Consent, with community members and representatives when development programs are implemented by states, outside agencies or other entities and the extent to which cultural concerns are considered and addressed.