full and effective participation

CORE DOMAIN III: FULL AND EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION

To reflect status and trends in indigenous people’s level of representation and participation in decision making processes, and especially in major decision making bodies.

Baseline

Indicator

Tools

a)    Mechanism for participation:

  • Existing mechanisms/laws/policies for full and effective participation both customary and state
  • Number of people participating in decision making  disaggregated according to sex  and age [i.e in community assembly, council of elders; no of people who are able to vote
  • Existence of community regulations and standards on participation in decision-making both customary and state
  • Existing  protocol/consensus process/participation mechanism  for the FPIC by the community
  • Avenues/opportunities supported  by the state for capacity-building among IPs to fully and effectively participate in various decision-making bodies
  • Capacity-building for people that were conducted

Rate of adopting customary decision-making processes (including  customary FPIC processes)

Increase or decrease in :

  • percentage of indigenous peoples participating in traditional and contemporary decision-making processes
  • percentage of women in authority in decision-making bodies
  • number of appropriate FPIC processes conducted by the government/corporations
  •  capacity building activities supported by state; by IP community

Percentage of people who have increased their capacity for decision-making and do advocacy work

Use a guide questionnaires and conduct FGD

b)    Benefit sharing:

  • Existing mechanisms/customary systems to share/distribute benefits from external forces (e.g. development project)
  • Policies/laws by the state recognizing the customary systems of IPs on benefit-sharing
  • Programs/projects implemented in the land, territories and resources of IPs
  • recognition and adoption by the state of customary mechanisms/systems on benefit-sharing
  • percentage of IPs who benefited from programs/project implemented by the state
  • incidences of conflicts associated with benefit sharing  contestations
 

c)    Access   to  comm./information

  • Communications systems  available and percentage of population accessing such
  • Informations  available/ accessible and percentage of population accessing/using these
  • Number  and quality of avenues  provided by  the state to increase  awareness of IPs on issues affecting them
  • Number of IPs who are able to access accurate and relevant information
  • Increase or decrease in number /percentage of population accessing/ using available communications systems and information, % of relevant information; 
  • % change attending  capacity building activities for full and effective participation