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Hold a meeting with the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon in
Colombia (OPIAC), the National Hydrocarbon Agency, and the MOI&J on how to
manage resources for the ―Integral Public Policy for the Amazonian Indigenous
People of Colombia, and to define who would be the co-executors of those
resources.
Create a thematic commission composed of the OPIAC, Ministry of Social
Protection, the Colombian Institute of Family Well-being (ICBF), and the Ministry
of Culture to review five points from the departmental agreements on the elderly in
the Amazon region. This commission met June 17, 2009.
Hold a technical meeting between OPIAC and the Coordinator for Climate Change
from the Ministry of Environment (MAVDT) on June 30, 2009, to discuss climate
change in the context of international agreements.
Form a technical commission with the UN Children‘s Fund (UNICEF), OPIAC,
other indigenous groups, the MOI&J, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Social
Protection, Ministry of Culture, and the ICBF in order to develop the agenda for
the ―Public Policy on Indigenous Youth.‖ (Held at UNICEF on June 9, 2009.)
Create a technical commission, comprised of indigenous delegates from each
department in the Amazon region, to develop a dialogue and exchange on the
Colombia-EU Free Trade Agreement. (Held June 12, 2009, at the Ministry of
Industrial Commerce and Tourism.)
Hold 23 meetings on socialization in accordance with Constitutional Court
decision Auto 004 in the six Amazonian departments. Following that, the group
agreed to hold six departmental meetings to discuss the findings of the 23
meetings.
Hold an Expanded Regional Amazonian Working Group, to include three
delegates from each of the 56 Amazonian indigenous groups, in order to reach
agreement on protocols for prior consultations presented by the Permanent
Coordination Working Group.
Protecting the Nukak Makú
In accordance with the ―Integrated Plan to Support Indigenous Communities with
High Vulnerability and Risk for Disappearance,‖ in Guaviare, to look at ways to assist
the Nukak community, the local government included in its Municipal Development Plan
of San José de Guaviare the issue of vulnerable indigenous groups at risk of extinction.
The government has also created and strengthened the Municipal Indigenous
Working Group of San José de Guaviare, which provides space for inter-agency
coordination among indigenous and government authorities. Created in February 2008,
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