The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has designed this guidance document to provide a practical tool to assist USAID missions and operating units (OUs) in their efforts to more effectively engage and partner with Indigenous Peoples in democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG) program activities. Consideration of Indigenous Peoples’ own, self-determined development priorities through well-structured communication, consultation, and engagement strategies helps foster local solutions to local problems as envisioned in the Journey to Self-Reliance (p. 32). Effective engagement that empowers Indigenous Peoples to exercise their rights and participate in decision- making processes that affect them is vital in promoting “inclusive and accountable democracies to advance freedom, dignity, and development” as envisioned in the USAID Strategy on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance.
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